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!

It's Brannon Braga, if you don't want to click through to the article.

Lots of talk of filler in this thread, and it certainly can be a problem, but there are reasons to watch things other than a serialized plot, and if it's good, it's not filler. Exploring themes and context and setting and characters are perfectly valid, and longer seasons let a show do that. I very much like having at least a few serialized threads running through a show, and characters that never, ever change can be a bit boring, but IMHO the term "filler" gets tossed around much too loosely in a lot of online discourse around genre TV.

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!

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.

As Ronald D Moore said you can do any genre in Star Trek having longer Seasons gives them more opportunity to have those different genres the shorter seasons and super serialized format taken to the extreme have stripped Away that Swing for the fences mentality that Star Trek once had. Does that mean sometimes you're going to have a bad episode every once in awhile yeah, but it also means that you're going to have great ones.

We all know the perfect balance between episodic and serialized television was Deep Space Nine. Because it had that perfect balance of you could do an episodic swing for the fences story or if you needed to tell a story over you know four or five episodes you could going the extreme one way or the other is always going to be a recipe for disaster.

Given the purchase of Paramount by the Ellison family, I unfortunately think we are going to witness the eshitification of Trek in the coming decade 😢

Edit: meaning they will want to remove the "wokeness"

Deep space nine type gray areas are a must. Give me a spock by the pale moonlight episode.

For everyone saying this can’t be done anymore, etc. etc. I’d like to introduce you to The Pitt.

They just made fifteen (15!) one-hour episodes with no filler and they will have another 15 ready to show in January - a turnaround time of under 12 months.

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

Take it slow, take your time, let us fill in the blanks, give us the journey, let’s grow together.

So long as it doesn't mean adding filler episodes where any changes to the established situation get undone in the last five minutes, yes.

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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.

Brits: Must be nice. We get 1 series with like 3 episodes annually and a Christmas special every leap year. Unless it's a panel show or Taskmaster which each have 10 series a year.

Big fat nope. Disagree. The British had it right before. Quality over quantity.

Long form content, in general, seems to be going out of fashion.

It's not just TV. Short articles outperform long deep dives in papers. Same with longer YouTube videos, which extends to the rise of shorts. Mobile and 'short session' games make up a huge chunk of playtime. I'm not sure about 'big' literature, but even fanfiction and amateur works are skewing towards collections of short, fluffy pieces instead of long-form adventures now.

It's not just attention spans or strained attention capacity either; my impression is energy/time levels to devote to that are dropping. I know a working couple with no kids that still transitioned to shorter-form YouTube stuff over TV because they're just too tired from work + basic maintenance.