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Alex Kurtzman Gets New Deal With CBS, Will Expand 'Star Trek' TV
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Yep. So long as only one show at a time does "the formula" (e.g., follows Starfleet bridge officers on a ship which has episodic adventures) we should be fine. Trek got into a rut during the Berman era mostly because there were only so many plots you could develop when you had:
1. The confines of Trek canon.
2. An insistence that characters do not grow or change.
3. Very little internal conflict between cast members.
When you put all of those together, it basically came down to "what wacky sci-fi of the week can we throw at crew X this week?" Latter-day Voyager and early Enterprise in particular had this issue where someone would get a story idea, and then someone would remember TNG already did it. The problem they had was they were basing the stories too often not in the characters, but in the concepts, and only so many concepts work on a starship traveling through space.
Seriously dude? Every big Trek fan has to admit that every series - even their favorite - is laden with garbage episodes, along with a lot of mediocre pap. Trek has never had great quality control. I'll be thrilled if they throw out five new series/miniseries even if only two of them are excellent.
Beyond doesn't have anywhere near as many braindead moments as Into Darkness. I liked that they remembered to have some real chemistry between Spock and McCoy, the little bit of Enterprise tie-in they did, and that they decided not to directly endanger Earth for the fourth movie in a row. But it was stunningly lightweight as a movie - so insubstantial I immediately forgot most of what happened.
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Wut?
Maybe I misunderstood you, but you seemed to imply that it was "throwing Trek under the bus" to develop all of these properties at once. Perhaps you meant just keeping it behind a paywall though.
It's not like he's going to be personally involved with all of them.Great, more Star Trek he can mess up.
That’s been done.
That will not stop hatred.
Do you mean the "Conspiracy" conspiracy? They did leave that hanging, 30(!) years ago...
I'd rather have more Cyrano Jones stories than more Khan stories.
If they do a follow-up to "Conspiracy", I hope heads don't explode over it.
I figure at least one will.
That episode bugs me.
It would be a good way to generate buzz. 
I'd rather have a Lwaxana Troi mini series than Khan series at this point.
I'm neither pessimistic nor optimistic. I'm no longer particularly invested emotionally, and I really do think that all of this nonsense deserves to be a subject for laughter and ridicule. It's just commerce empty of value - the manufacture of disposable entertainment as yard goods.
Really, if one can't get a punchline out of the current state of Star Trek it's not good for much at all.
Just entertainment.
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