Eh, I think you CAN do it, I just don't think they're pulling it off at the moment. Even things like ENT S3 did a better job of it, and felt like at least the through-line made sense and they used the time ok. The recent stuff is just feeling like they had an idea for a fun episode, or 2-parter, and then were told they weren't getting any more sets, so make it last the whole season.
Look at the most recent DIS season, was that really more than a single episode, 2-parter at best if you were going to put it into any other series? Weird anomaly shows up, it's destroying things so the hero ship has to track down the origin point and ask them to turn it off. That's 45 minutes worth of TOS most episodes, leaving time for Kirk to flirt with the lead alien female for 5-7 more minutes. DIS made it an entire season, 10 hours. Yes, fleshed it out more and had lots of side moments and quests tossed in, but that's the whole plot and you can easily see TOS knocking it out in 1-2 episodes max without really missing much. Picard feels slightly better but we just spent 2 episodes with the plot of 'keep an eye on a girl at a party, give her a pep talk so she doesn't quit her job'. We're most of the way through this season, and probably only a couple episodes' worth of material. Entire first episode could have happened before the title card played, and that was one of the better paced episodes. Again, it's not terrible/don't hate it, just feels slow and bloated, like someone wrote a fan script that didn't get cut down to episode length by the editors. A little disappointing, as one of the show runners was previously writing epic-feeling VOY novels, and just can't capture that same feeling in tv format.
Look at the most recent DIS season, was that really more than a single episode, 2-parter at best if you were going to put it into any other series? Weird anomaly shows up, it's destroying things so the hero ship has to track down the origin point and ask them to turn it off. That's 45 minutes worth of TOS most episodes, leaving time for Kirk to flirt with the lead alien female for 5-7 more minutes. DIS made it an entire season, 10 hours. Yes, fleshed it out more and had lots of side moments and quests tossed in, but that's the whole plot and you can easily see TOS knocking it out in 1-2 episodes max without really missing much. Picard feels slightly better but we just spent 2 episodes with the plot of 'keep an eye on a girl at a party, give her a pep talk so she doesn't quit her job'. We're most of the way through this season, and probably only a couple episodes' worth of material. Entire first episode could have happened before the title card played, and that was one of the better paced episodes. Again, it's not terrible/don't hate it, just feels slow and bloated, like someone wrote a fan script that didn't get cut down to episode length by the editors. A little disappointing, as one of the show runners was previously writing epic-feeling VOY novels, and just can't capture that same feeling in tv format.
