General Trek Questions and Observations

[gweeps]

I can't really speak to Prodigy, but I feel sure that this was done in Lower Decks simply because they were consciously echoing the conventions of 90s Trek, most particularly TNG.

Yeah, and it was glorious.

 

[Oddish]

^ If it ain't broke, why fix it?

 

[Vagabond Elf]

^ If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Because you don't need to wait 20 seconds for people to come back from whatever they were doing during the commercial break, because a modern audience wants their 42 minutes of show to be 41 minutes of story so you've got to cut all the credits to the bare minimum, and because in long form storytelling the episodes aren't individual stories anyway, making episode titles less important (and many shows don't even have episode titles any more) which is why it faded from use. I do prefer it myself and I also wish modern shows did a better job of telling me who plays which character so I didn't have to Google that every time, but I also understand why it changed.

 

[knightgrace]

I will settle for 59 minutes of story.