Season 3 renewal?
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It dawns on me, when S31 gets up and running, will we see any characters guest star? Could we see flashbacks with Captain Killy when Georgiou is reminiscing? Could the Discovery show up in an episode? Topic for another thread, I suppose.
I could see them continuing the Mirror Universe storyline from ENT as part of a flashback/crossover.
I’m pretty sure Kurtzman has said Kirk will not appear in the series.
I don’t believe him for a second. Spock was never supposed to appear as well
It’ll be Scotty or McCoy then.
The producers are already talking about season 3...
http://trekcore.com/blog/2019/01/kurtzman-kadin-picard-georgiou-shows-star-trek-discovery-season-3/
http://trekcore.com/blog/2019/01/kurtzman-kadin-picard-georgiou-shows-star-trek-discovery-season-3/
I think season 3 is guaruanteed. I'd even go so far as to say season 4 probably as well. CBS is not willing to give up it's position in the streaming war now or in the near future.
The actual interesting thing will be the budget that season 3 will have: Right now, they are shelling blockbuster-movie money at it! If that continues, it can easily be deemed a succeess. If they're cutting everything down to DS's "Titans" level of production, we know they're not really happy with the audience figures. But they will still keep it alive and continue!
And even a Trek show with a smaller budget can work really well, at least qualitatively, with re-using previous sets, props and vfx-models. ENT's 4th season is very beloved, and that had, like, half the budget of the previous seasons!
The actual interesting thing will be the budget that season 3 will have: Right now, they are shelling blockbuster-movie money at it! If that continues, it can easily be deemed a succeess. If they're cutting everything down to DS's "Titans" level of production, we know they're not really happy with the audience figures. But they will still keep it alive and continue!
And even a Trek show with a smaller budget can work really well, at least qualitatively, with re-using previous sets, props and vfx-models. ENT's 4th season is very beloved, and that had, like, half the budget of the previous seasons!
You're mocking it I know, but that would be awesome. Show Kirk as an arrogant, young prick!
It'll have the same budget, if not more. What makes you think otherwise?
Picard has a gigantic budget too, if their tax credit for filming in LA is accurate.
No to Spock was before they changed show runners. As soon as they were gone, Spock just suddenly shows up in the Press.
And the Farragut disaster happens in 2257, the year this season takes place.
Well, first of all: I'd probably cut the budget from season 1 anyway. That was ballooned way out of portion, and mostly spent on behind-the-screen squibbles rather than ending up on screen anyway.
Second: They now have a plethora of standing sets and props for DIS already. If I were a producer (I'm not), I'd distribute more of the budget to other "first seasons" - like, the 1st season of the Picard show needs a BIG budget as well, because it has to built completely new sets, props and vfx models from scratch. Then I'd hope for some clever ressource-sharing between the show (like building generic "alien" sets than can be redressed and re-used on both shows).
Overall: A penny spared, is a penny earned.
ENT season 4 had a tiny budget - they got around that by almost exclusively re-using stuff they already had, and splittig their stories over multiple episodes. That was MUCH better than cancellation!
Call me a whore for production values, but the Season 2 premiere was the best the TV side has ever looked, and genuinely rivals the Bad Robot films.
That needs to be the benchmark for all these shows going forward. I do not want to see this franchise ever regress to the stoic style that The Orville goes for. It looks cheap and unbecoming.
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Not necessarily, they could just be planning ahead.
I don't know, both agreed and disagreed.
I'm a whore for production values as well - I want the sets and props to be fantastic, and the starships and vfx to look epic! Certainly, a new Trek production has to look like a high-end production rivaling other flagship shows like GoT or LiS, it can't really allow itself to have the sitcom-look of "The Orville".
Then again: The entire asteroid-chase in this episode was - while widely entertaining - overall just fluff. It could have easily been cut out or really, really shortened down to the essentials, and the plot and overall story of the episode wouldn't have lost much.
So if CBS is forced to spread their money more out between the different Trek shows - I would definitely want them to kee the production values of their sets and props, and of the establishing/beauty-shots in space or exotic planets. But I honestly can live without space-action-chases that have hundreds of expensive vfx-shots and go on for 10 minutes without adding much to the plot - wether it's Burnham flying a small craft, or her having a fistfight with a klingon on the outer hull of a space-beacon (like in S1). I'd much rather have a 4th season without these super intense, super expensive vfx sequences that I really enjoy - but also could easily live without - then no series at all.
They hold the rights to Disco and its spin-offs, but not to new shows like Picard and Lower Decks.
I expect that Australians will wind up with Trek split across two services.
The fourth Kelvin film was confirmed - twice - and that ain’t happening.
Really? That adds some credence to it then.
Actually, the fourth film was never officially confirmed by Paramount or CBS (as in given a release date), but a lot of folks assumed it was because of all the BTS conversations going on and publically being discussed as well as preliminary contracts being divulged.They hold the rights to Disco and its spin-offs, but not to new shows like Picard and Lower Decks.
I expect that Australians will wind up with Trek split across two services.
The fourth Kelvin film was confirmed - twice - and that ain’t happening.
In this case we have one of the Producers indicating that a Television show currently in production is already planning for a third season.
And based on the initial reaction to Season-2's first episode, if CBS hasn't already given the go ahead, it probably soon will.
Also note that a Producer is quoted as saying that Emperor Georgieu will be appearing in both Season-2 AND Season-3 of Discovery, before we see her in the SECTION-31 show.
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I did read that Netflix has the rights to the Picard show internationally. The CBS expansions mentioned previously were still only in countries where CBS operated regular TV channels. CBS owns channel in Australia, and a couple of UK channels, plus a Poland channel. The UK also might no longer be under the EU content quotas for much longer with Brexit.
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