This is speculation on my part, but I don’t think they intend to tell more than one season with Pike in it, if even at all. I am of the belief it will be an anthology series, with each season set on a different Enterprise.
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Considering CBS refused to do an anthology series when Fuller pitched it, what would change their mind now?
Imagine the conversations. “Star Trek TEN is my favorite Star Trek!”
That doesn’t sound like a plausible business model. The cost of all the sets. Also, they’d effectively redesign every familiar Enterprise if they were to include them. On the other hand, what stories could be told on the 1701-R that you couldn’t tell on the on the 1701-J?
People fall in love with characters on a show. It helps to generate fans to keep them from season to season. Even American Horror Story kept the actors. But then you can’t have the same, prominent actors play different roles in Trek on such a large-scale basis.
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This being an anthology series is a different proposition to Discovery being one. By the time it airs, there will be three on-going live action series and two on-going animated series. I also don’t think the chain of command is the same anymore as it was in 2016. If the set up allows them to tell stories with Kirk and Spock, I highly doubt they’d say no. (And such a set-up does.)
Except, as you put it, each season being set on a different Enterprise, they'd have to one, create new sets and new costumes every season, and two, there doesn't seem to be more than a season or so with Kirk and Spock.
If they were going to an anthology series involving the Enterprise, what seems more plausible is having it set aboard the 1701 during different eras, a season under Pike, a season under Kirk, maybe even a season under April. That way, they keep the same sets, costumes, props, whatever and there's potential for carry over characters.
This thread deserves to be bumped a year or two from now. 
This thread deserves to be bumped a year or two from now.
More like five years. We haven't even heard squat about Lower Decks, much less any of this other alleged stuff.
In the case of Clone Wars, it is. Earlier Lucasfilm made a short 2D animated series called Star Wars: Clone Wars. After Episode III, they decided to do the 3D series about the same thing, and called it Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And that was that.
There's a 'the' there that you're missing...so it's not the same thing.
No.
I'm sure its coming. Top men are working on it.
That is not what Kurtzman and the showrunner Akiva Goldsman are planning:
Could it be a miniseries or a series?
“I’d rather do it as a series,” Kurtzman said. “There’s room for that. There's still seven years from Discovery's departure until Pike's accident. There's a lot of precedent for seven-year ‘Star Trek’ shows.”
https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-...reks-to-Star-Trek-Picard/stories/202001150036
Weird that it would have to be post-DSC. Pike is a famous hero before his DSC appearance already, after all. And the hair and makeup on Mount is ageless enough; he could go ten fictional years either way without a need to alter his looks.
Fewer writing constraints in the years long before TOS than in the ones immediately before it, too. As for my personal agenda, if they're going to make heavy use of the bridge set and the CGI model, nicer for those to be from the unseen 2240s-2250s than from the 2260s, for visual continuity reasons.
In any case, the less we get Mount's Pike the better IMHO. A titular show could ruin it easily enough. But Paramount is likely to think the other way.
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Fewer writing constraints in the years long before TOS than in the ones immediately before it, too. As for my personal agenda, if they're going to make heavy use of the bridge set and the CGI model, nicer for those to be from the unseen 2240s-2250s than from the 2260s, for visual continuity reasons.
In any case, the less we get Mount's Pike the better IMHO. A titular show could ruin it easily enough. But Paramount is likely to think the other way.
Timo Saloniemi
I wonder if this pathological need to make more shows set during the DSC era Is simply because they want to use the existing DSC sets. Someone needs to tell them that those sets would look fine at any point in the Star Trek timeline, and they don’t have to limit themselves to just that tiny bit of time.
Picard is set in a different time, so is Discovery from season 3 onwards and presumably Starfleet Academy might be set in a different era as well... So that only makes Pike for the 23rd century and maybe Section 31, depending on where Georgiou will be after season 3 of Discovery...
It is. It is keeping the same name, just including a definite article to differentiate between products. That's what I proposed when I suggested Star Trek: The Enterprise. :-)
Weird that it would have to be post-DSC. Pike is a famous hero before his DSC appearance already, after all. And the hair and makeup on Mount is ageless enough; he could go ten fictional years either way without a need to alter his looks.
Fewer writing constraints in the years long before TOS than in the ones immediately before it, too. As for my personal agenda, if they're going to make heavy use of the bridge set and the CGI model, nicer for those to be from the unseen 2240s-2250s than from the 2260s, for visual continuity reasons.
In any case, the less we get Mount's Pike the better IMHO. A titular show could ruin it easily enough. But Paramount is likely to think the other way.
Timo Saloniemi
They could do it after, with flashbacks to earlier (including The Cage, mind you), and end the show with a refit, and the Enterprise as in TOS going to Kirk. (We'll have disregard the messed pilot versions of it tough, I guess. As Sisko would put, I CAN live with that.)
Isn’t that what I said? The ‘the’ makes it different, because it’s a different product, i.e. the example someone gave of the Clone Wars.
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