Sell the cast and crew on 8-9 months of 16 hours shooting days when most of them have families. I dare you.
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Maybe they could get back to writing more stories about an object oriented universe instead of only writing about the ego oriented universe. Every single star trek franchise since enterprise is a space soap opera.
Every single star trek franchise since enterprise is a space soap opera.
That's always been Star Trek. Don't make me go through the TNG back catalogue.
The interpersonal dramas are what separate the Trekkies from the SW nerds. You don't need a planet killing superweapon to tell a story. It's enough to have two people trapped on a deserted planet who don't speak the same language, but need one another to survive.
I never said trek didn't have any drama, only that modern star trek is nothing but egocentric soap opera, and pays lip service to the science and engineering part of the science fiction.
Previous trek iterations included both object science stories and subjective egoism in a very different ratio. How TNG, tos, voyager or Enterprise dealt with technology and exploration challenges is worlds apart from discovery, or even strange new worlds. The amount of screen time each show devotes to character development and the amount it focuses on the objective challenges of the world is very different. There is a clear direction to make politics, personal drama and interpersonal conflict both more dramatic and the center of the storylines in the modern star trek catalogue. These shows no longer being mostly episodic stories but season long, prolonged character development vehicles, is also part of the subjective egoism that now dominates the franchise. It's almost all about character journeys, relationship conflicts and political posturing. The object oriented stories of science, engineering, exploration, discovery, philosophy or even technologies as a setting for character stories is largely absent now. It's more reality tv show drama and less exploration and adventure, and even when they do have those object focused stories, they have little meaningful impact on the story or the audience.
pays lip service to the science and engineering part of the science fiction.
Star Trek has never been a properly science heavy franchise. You don't get The Expanse style of gritty space survivalism (pilots dealing with g-force strain, Spacers having to mine their water reserves, politicians negotiating across an 8 minute transmission delay between Earth and Mars). Every common engineering problem is solved with tech so futuristic it might as well be magic, while the serious problems are more ethical or philosophical (can we morally turn off a sentient computer? should we give these primitive people access to our warp drive technology? how do we negotiate with Space Wizards?)
The object oriented stories of science, engineering, exploration, discovery, philosophy or even technologies as a setting for character stories is largely absent now.
They never really existed in the Rodenberry universe. He was far more interested in the politics and the social consequences of interstellar travel than the nuts and bolts of getting around space.
When it came to practical applications, even Heinlein and Asimov (themselves chronic abusers of the SciFi tech hand wave) did a better job in books like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Foundation.
they have little meaningful impact on the story or the audience.
Early Trek was really bad about continuity, generally speaking. It wasn't until late TNG and DS9 that you got real multi-episode arcs.
Later Trek was - if anything - too worried about continuity. They had to try and explain everything within the context of prior series, rather than just telling some interesting stories of a deep space exploration vessel chartered out of Earth.
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Awesome!
Can we now also get rid of the lens flares the dumb pew pew, most of the CGI and action and just get back to well written show episodes where CGI is a lick of paint to make it pretty, not the soup you're eating?
I want TNG style trek, DS9, I want the Orville for star trek!
The damage JJ Abrams caused is immense, and having one of his disciples on the helm doesn't help things.
For real though. 8 or 10 episodes is nothing, especially when they're spread out intentionally to just keep people subscribed to a monthly streaming service.
TV shows of yesterday still matter largely because there is so. much. content. This shit was available for free with a basic ass television and some strips of metal wired into it. And you got 24 episodes a season. And sometimes there was more than one season in a year.
Artificial scarcity is obvious when things get that different.
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It's Brannon Braga, if you don't want to click through to the article.
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I'm not expecting a return to the old 26 episode seasons, but damn, 15 would be a nice middle ground that would give the season's story arc time to develop and breathe (if it even has one, which I don't think is always necessary, tbh).
10 feels too short.
Besides, it just makes sense, given their goal is to keep people subscribed year-round. If new episodes are only coming out for 2 months of the year, that makes their service a harder sell.
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That’s a dumb comparison but I’m all for longer seasons. TNG had like 20 something episodes per. I’m even okay if they aren’t all JJ Abrahms cinematic quality. Bring back cheap TV!
Thats the problem with modern trek, that need to be "cinematic". Star Trek doesnt need it, it never did. Some of the best episodes were done on a shoe string budget. Like The Drumhead and Its only a paper moon for example. Its only a paper moon didnt even feature any of the main cast. Thats how good DS9s writing was. Even the side characters got the love from the writers.
Exactly. A lot of those episodes were like little stage plays. Imagine entertaining your audience with just a good story! Those were the days.
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Big fat nope. Disagree. The British had it right before. Quality over quantity.
So when do we get the quality?
That's the neat part!
I don't know. I think there are good shows and bad shows and it doesn't matter how many episodes per season they have. It doesn't matter how much they split it up, if they just keep on making up stuff just for the sake of going on instead of working towards a planned goal. With the shorter shows I get the feeling that they knew where they were going when filming started more than with the older 24 episode shows. But as I said, you get good and bad examples for both long and short seasons.
I have been watching more older shows over the years and noticed they had more filler episodes. I do not miss that.
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This guy stinks, but I agree that Trek is better with more episodes per season. Bring in more guest writers, and do cheaper episodes. Try weird stuff! Some of the best episodes are just are just two guys, sometimes one's an alien, talking in front of a camera
The seasons, when they were longer.
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Also with significantly smaller budgets, please.
It's abundantly clear that bigger budgets just get wasted on creating spectacle. With small budgets the strength has to be in the writing to carry the episodes.
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