I'm fully aware there are 52 weeks in a year. Paramount themselves have said they want 50 weeks of trek. So again, it has nothing to do with which show is or isnt the flagship and all about how paramount is choosing to schedule the shows.
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Discovery was the first out of the gate and the only Trek show on Paramounts' roster for a while, but I've never thought of it in terms of being a flagship show. Probably better to say Star Trek itself is a flagship franchise.
On break at work the other day, Fave TV was playing on the television. It's a new subchannel of CBS on Basic Cable I'm guessing. It has shows like The Office and That '70s Show on it, from what I saw, so I know lots of people will stop to watch that channel.
During one of the commercial breaks, they plugged Paramount+ and advertised DSC's mid-season premiere coming up. So at work, I saw a plug for Star Trek: Discovery. I love seeing that in places where I least expect to.
During one of the commercial breaks, they plugged Paramount+ and advertised DSC's mid-season premiere coming up. So at work, I saw a plug for Star Trek: Discovery. I love seeing that in places where I least expect to.
She’s the main character. So get used to it
That complaint comes up so often from so many different people that I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the series and not with the viewers.
How people respond to a character usually comes down to personal engagement. Not sure it's a problem.
Well I mean that the earlier seasons are designed in a way that makes it feel like Burnham is not just the centre of the series but also the centre of time and space.
I think that was more towards the end of Season 2. Beyond that, I don't see it as such a centric state.
Let's put it another way: No one's ever going to complain that Picard is the center of Picard. Bias? I think yes. He's also the character in the title of the series but that bias still would've been there regardless.
Sisko: the Emissary to the Prophets, the starter of the Dominion War (Vreenak's opinion anyway), and also half God.
This is the part where you say, "Yeah but that's different!"
That all having been said...
... I still love this.Oh yeah, they really tone that down next season.
Now we're getting somewhere constructive.
Exactly. Too much of what surrounds her is generic sci-fi fantasy tropes done better in other series.
I think it's a hard thing to pull off, TBH.
I mean, imagine if CBS made Deep Space Nine today, with only 10-15 episode seasons. With so many less episodes, there would be so much less time to delve into things like the Ferengi, guest characters like Garak, Kira's past as a terrorist, O'Brien's suffering, etc. Pretty much every episode would have to focus on Sisko's role as the Emissary, his relationship with his son, and eventually the Dominion War. Which would really make the "space Jesus" aspects of his character a lot less tolerable, IMHO, because the series really needed to focus on secondary characters (and smaller-stakes stories) from time to time so you didn't think about how absurd Sisko's role really was.
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