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I found it interesting that in recent articles quoting Kate Mulgrew on her conditions for Janeway to return in live action, the thing she most stressed was that she had told Alex Kurtzman that the quality of the writing would have to be meticulous.

She’s very happy with the writing for Janeway in Prodigy but sounds like she needs to be convinced that it would be the same in live action.

Have to disagree on Lower Decks.

Longtime fans keep putting forward the inference, based on their knowledge of the franchise, that Lower Decks won’t work for those who don’t get the references.

But the data keeps squashing that hypothesis.

There is a significant group of younger millennials and Zs that got into the franchise via Lower Decks. They’re the target market of viewers of ‘adult animated comedy’ and the format/media rather than the Easter eggs are the hook for them.

On other platforms, you hear a lot from them, as well as from Trek fans who say they got their housemates, BF/GF or siblings into the franchise by watching Lower Decks with them.

If the show weren’t limited to a platform that’s otherwise offering little for their niche, it would have had more success. But Paramount+ just doesn’t have enough in that niche to make it worth subscribing to for them.

Old timer here. It’s easy to be a completionist when you do it over decades.

Just watched them all as they came out for the most part, after starting somewhere mid season one of TOS. With the reruns, I was soon caught up.

But I always argue strongly that whatever show grabs someone most is the best place to start for them. There’s no ‘best’ way and some of the shows reach different demographics better or worse.

Our teenage kids have never made it through every episode of TOS or Enterprise, and balk at DS9. Each has watched every episode of at least one of the newer shows, but not the same ones. But they find different ones more interesting as they mature.

I have thought ‘Move Along Home’ was great since first broadcast.

DS9 hadn’t yet locked into its eventual tone, but I hold to my view that it’s an episode that wouldn’t have raised the ire of the ‘Dignity of Trek’ on just about any of the other shows in the franchise.

Congratulations on completing them. Nice results sincerely.

It’s here in Canada on digital via AppleTV.

Also @GoodAaron@startrek.website has confirmed on his Mastodon account that CTV continues to retain the licence but the EPs didn’t have any news on when it might run either.

I have to wonder if there are any standard ‘use it or lose it’ clauses that crystallize after a certain point in the contracts for streaming licences.

I enjoyed it. It helped me see how Georgiou’s had already begun her journey even before season two of Discovery and it was a fun ride.

Simon & Schuster has been careful to select the best of its established ‘Relaunch Novelverse’ group of authors to write the tie-in books for its new live-action shows.

If you like the action focus of John Jackson Miller’s other tie-in fiction for Star Trek or other franchises, you’ll definitely like this one.

Definitely above average among Trekbooks, but there are some outstanding by some of the others that would place higher.

Emony (the gymnast) appears prominently in the Discovery novel ‘Die Standing’ that tells MU Georgiou’s journey between seasons one and two.

In the book, Emony had a covert identity as an operative for Starfleet Intelligence and was paired with Georgiou for a mission.

So, I have been hoping that Emony might appear in the S31 event movie.

While Chase Masterson’s Leeta took on Emony’s identity in the Trill zhian’tara ritual, there’s no reason to think she couldn’t be very different looking than Chase. So I am hoping Emony might be one of the yet-to-be-named female main characters.

I’m wondering if the cast appearances will include actors from S31 and Starfleet Academy, or just from Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds.

And I am wondering if we might see more casting news for Starfleet Academy ahead of SDCC.

Or at least some character names to go with the casting announcements we’ve already had. It would also be great to know what species some of these will be.

I was replying to the sarcastic remark directly above that posits that Trek has an adequate fanbase to sustain the franchise.

Prodigy’s been an investment in reaching younger fans and building an audience for the future.

Starfleet Academy’s target audience is later teens and young adults. Basically, ‘the key demographic’ as reported by Nielsen in the US.

Advertisers care mainly about 18-35 year olds, and now that streaming has ads that key demographic is important for the survival of the franchise.

Besides if the franchise hadn’t expanded its fanbase in the 90s it wouldn’t be viable now. And let’s face it, it’s not that significant outside North America. Gone are the days when US audiences were adequate for survival.