Discovery Renewed for Season 2

[Albinator]

Please don't tell me to move along. Jesus Christ, is your faith in Discovery that fragile you can't take a joke?

Nope. Try again.

 

[Tuskin38]

Nope. Try again.

He was making a joke.
Don't take everything so seriously.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

Yeah, it was a cheesy joke, get over it.

 

[137th Gebirg]

And the revelation being that it's the same cheese Neelix found that messed up Voyager's OS!

Fermentation from the juice oozing out of the neural gel packs, no doubt.

 

[Albinator]

I love Discovery and thought it was quite funny!

I might have found it funny if it wasn't the umpteenth "joke" he's made. Dude needs to move along home.

 

[Albinator]

Yeah, it was a cheesy joke, get over it.

Fair enough. I surely will, at your suggestion, rather than be triggered be by it and respond with expletives...

 

[Tuskin38]

I might have found it funny if it wasn't the umpteenth "joke" he's made. Dude needs to move along home.

And you need to stop telling people what they should do.

 

[BillJ]

Fair enough. I surely will, at your suggestion, rather than be triggered be by it and respond with expletives...

No one responded with expletives.

 

[137th Gebirg]

"Triggered"

...Oh, no...not that...

"Triggered" is a trigger word for me.... aw man...I said it myself!!!

GYYAAAAAHHHHH!!

 

[MakeshiftPython]

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[Noname Given]

There will be a huge cry of rage from Orville fans.

Why? Hopefully it will get extended/renewed as well. I like BOTH shows. Who is trying to make this into a competition; and why would ST: D getting renewed have any effect on The Orville series one way or another?

It's not gonna be 24 episodes, that seems pretty certain. Yeah, 13 seems to be at the high end of what big budget series get these days.

January 2019 is supposedly the target date for the final Game of Thrones season, you do not want to counterprogram that one, it's gonna suck all the cultural oxygen out.

Again, why? S: D doesn't run on any Cable/TV stations in the U.S. or Internationally (except for Space in Canada.)

How ir starting to release episodes at the same time another series is airoing on HBO 'counterprogramming'? I mean holy hell, do you really expect that people can't won't watch BOTH??
^^^
(I know shocker, right, as you can only watch ONE and ONLY ONE genre program at a time - per the 'Proper Nerd Etiquette Handbook'. )

 

[MakeshiftPython]

Why? Hopefully it will get extended/renewed as well. I like BOTH shows. Who is trying to make this into a competition; and why would ST: D getting renewed have any effect on The Orville series one way or another?

Because we're in a society with a verses mindset. There must always be competitions!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yeah, it was a cheesy joke, get over it.

I dunno, the joke was KIND of gouda. Don't make yourself feel bleu over it. There's no reason we should be arguing like this - who are we to diss a brie?

 

[MakeshiftPython]

I dunno, the joke was KIND of gouda. Don't make yourself feel bleu over it. There's no reason we should be arguing like this - who are we to diss a brie?

You've got a SHARP wit.

 

[Tomalak]

I dunno, the joke was KIND of gouda. Don't make yourself feel bleu over it. There's no reason we should be arguing like this - who are we to diss a brie?

That's Edam good post.

 

[gblews]

Hmmmm...

I'd prefer Star Trek stay special by not saturating the market like these other franchises do.

Yeah, that's what I'm currently worried about with Star Wars. I hate the idea of getting to a point where the attitude changes to "oh, another Star Wars". Trek really suffered that kind of fatigue.

Marvel at least has enough variety and a grand assortment of source material to draw from that they can take a loss like INHUMANS every now and then as long as they have enough winners.

Great news about the renewal.

My only concern about another Trek series is; will the TPTB exercise the same amount of care in putting together a production team, the way they did with DSC. If the production staffs for a another show are as good or better than the DSC team, I don't think the number of shows will be a problem. I think the "over saturation" thing is a myth, as long as the shows are good enough.

 

[Noname Given]

I'm sure CBS is already considering greenlighting a second Star Trek TV series which will run during the time when Discovery is off the air.

I doubt it. I also doubt we'll see any Star Trek related feature films from Paramount while ST: D is in production and streaming.

The LAST thing they want is to oversaturate the media with multiple shows/films again. The days of two TV series airing and a feature film in the works for release are LONG gone.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I dunno, the joke was KIND of gouda. Don't make yourself feel bleu over it. There's no reason we should be arguing like this - who are we to diss a brie?

Some people just can't help acting like an asiago.

 

[Noname Given]

The scale of Discovery is so much larger, it takes a lot more prep time to execute a show with production values this high.

Reading the behind-the-scenes on Memory Alpha on the earlier series, the most remarkable thing to me is how last minute it was. DS9 especially seems to have numerous stories about getting the script the night before shooting. It's amazing to me that they managed to produce shows that good under those conditions.

TNG was OUT of shootable (read production ready scripts) material 11 episodes in during Season 1 - they were in scramble mode constantly to get something in front of the cameras most of the time.

In contrast, yes, ST: D had some production issues (nothing too out of the ordinary, and it's not the first show to switch EP's as it ramps up to air) - BUT - by the time the first episode was released to streaming; they had 7 episodes through post - 10 episodes where principal photography was completed and they were undergoing post; and 13 scripts completed and the final two being broken down and completed.

They probably have all 15 done and ready to air by the time CBSAA has the ST: D 'midseason break'.

TOS was even MORE hectic. hell, given that I'm amazed it's first season is a good as it is.

But, yeah, CBS gave ST: D the time to do the series 'their way' (for better or worse -- IMO for me it's 'better' YMMV) - but I have zero issues if they continue this type of latitude to allow the production staff to do 'their show' again for ST: D Season 2.

 

[D_Fry]

Again, why? S: D doesn't run on any Cable/TV stations in the U.S. or Internationally (except for Space in Canada.)

How ir starting to release episodes at the same time another series is airoing on HBO 'counterprogramming'? I mean holy hell, do you really expect that people can't won't watch BOTH??
^^^
(I know shocker, right, as you can only watch ONE and ONLY ONE genre program at a time - per the 'Proper Nerd Etiquette Handbook'. )

Game of Thrones is the biggest show currently on television, its final season will grab all the mainstream media attention. Sure, fans will watch both, but if you're looking to expand to new audiences (which CBS would want to do for the start of season 2), this is the absolut worst time to do it.