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People tend to forget that this, even for Roddenberry, is the whole point of making TV shows. No one is doing it for free, and the more people that watch, the more popular the property becomes and, in turn, enriches the creators and studios.
True. Even so, to me there's a significant difference between trying to keep your viewers and attracting new ones by telling high-quality stories, or trying to attract them by e.g. blatantly sexualizing a young female character.

But, the weird argument of "Star Trek characters should appear in Star Trek" is very broad and strange. Like, I could be really odd and say that Dukat should get his own show then because he is a Star Trek character, or perhaps Kai Winn.

They've done weirder things. They attempted a comedy show around Hitler and his Jewish neighbors, once (Heil Honey, I'm home!). Unsurprisingly, it was canceled after the first episode.
 
There's heaps of Star Trek characters I dislike or have zero interest in ever watching again. Of course you'll find fans of every Star Trek character on a Star Trek board, that still doesn't mean everybody likes or is interested in every Star Trek character.

And I would rather see a show with a new set of characters than one about already established ones.
 
Wait, what? It's admittedly been many years, but I don't remember ANY kids on Night Court!

I only remember a single episode, where there were kid versions of Harry, Dan and Christine. Probably somewhere around season three or four?
 
They've done weirder things. They attempted a comedy show around Hitler and his Jewish neighbors, once (Heil Honey, I'm home!). Unsurprisingly, it was canceled after the first episode.

I always forget this exists until I’m unfortunately reminded. Im surprised it made it as far as one episode.

I mean, surely that had to go through a lot of meetings and discussions before it was greenlit…and yet somehow it still went before cameras.

Hitler and Eva Braun struggling to get along with their Jewish neighbours… What the fuck were they thinking?
 
I always forget this exists until I’m unfortunately reminded. Im surprised it made it as far as one episode.

I mean, surely that had to go through a lot of meetings and discussions before it was greenlit…and yet somehow it still went before cameras.

Hitler and Eva Braun struggling to get along with their Jewish neighbours… What the fuck were they thinking?
Wait… was this a real thing? Was it a sort of Mel brooks style spoof where they take the piss out of the Nazis? I’m … speechless.
 
Wait… was this a real thing? Was it a sort of Mel brooks style spoof where they take the piss out of the Nazis? I’m … speechless.

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It’s real and as gross as it sounds.

Seems to be early 1990s ‘edge’ humour going over its own edge. I’m surprised to see Paul Jackson’s name on there (Red Dwarf), but yeah, there was a period in the 1990’s in the UK where there was some dreadful shit within televised comedy.

They recorded 8 episodes of it, but it was pulled from TV after one and then buried.
 
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It’s real and as gross as it sounds.

Seems to be early 1990s ‘edge’ humour going over its own edge. I’m surprised to see Paul Jackson’s name on there (Red Dwarf), but yeah, there was a period in the 1990’s in the UK where there was some dreadful shit within televised comedy.

They recorded 8 episodes of it, but it was pulled from TV after one and then buried.

Holy shit! It is a perfect analogue to Section 31. :lol:
 
I do not like the DSC Mirror Universe episodes. Sorry. DS9's were shite after the first or second episode but man, DSC managed to make them even less enjoyable.
 
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