Luckily those teens and tweens are slowly growing up, which allows networks previously dedicated to that sort of programming to give us stuff like Arrow and Flash, thank goodness THAT seems to be working out.
ESV's teen crew was pure Disney, of course. By then end of their two-week pilot (on first broadcast it was two, two-hour episodes, distilled to an even worse single TV-movie for subsequent showings) they had managed to get more adults onto the ship after the Captain had been spaced.
The youngest of the crew was the resident computer genius (from the same clone batch as Wesley Crusher), who was 13 at the time; the ship was to take a 27-year round trip (thirteen years one way, plus a year planned for exploration - bummer vacation in the middle of a huge road trip). Only a handful of the crew were in their twenties, including the XO who replaced the Captain and the ship's Doctor.
I never could grasp how they'd expect to make a series out of a show which apparently did not have aliens as part of its universe, and didn't expect to find any OTHER habitable planets on the way to their target, which was explicitly mentioned as the nearest habitable one. OTOH, right after leaving explored space they ran into a couple of abandoned spacecraft and sources of drama, including some weird conspiracy to colonize their target planet, but how could you get many plots out of that? Who knows if the original writers had thought of an overall plan, but unless they quickly sped up their trip, it would have been a pretty boring ride to get there.
Mark
ESV's teen crew was pure Disney, of course. By then end of their two-week pilot (on first broadcast it was two, two-hour episodes, distilled to an even worse single TV-movie for subsequent showings) they had managed to get more adults onto the ship after the Captain had been spaced.
The youngest of the crew was the resident computer genius (from the same clone batch as Wesley Crusher), who was 13 at the time; the ship was to take a 27-year round trip (thirteen years one way, plus a year planned for exploration - bummer vacation in the middle of a huge road trip). Only a handful of the crew were in their twenties, including the XO who replaced the Captain and the ship's Doctor.
I never could grasp how they'd expect to make a series out of a show which apparently did not have aliens as part of its universe, and didn't expect to find any OTHER habitable planets on the way to their target, which was explicitly mentioned as the nearest habitable one. OTOH, right after leaving explored space they ran into a couple of abandoned spacecraft and sources of drama, including some weird conspiracy to colonize their target planet, but how could you get many plots out of that? Who knows if the original writers had thought of an overall plan, but unless they quickly sped up their trip, it would have been a pretty boring ride to get there.
Mark
