‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed for Fifth and Final Season

[StarTrek1701]

For people surprised they are ending the show after five seasons: Just how long did you think this would run and what in the current climate of streaming shows made you think there was much chance of that happening?

Then don't make it a bloody streaming show, reign the budget in, get better writers set up bottle shows, etc.
If Tracker can get 20+ episodes, Star Trek can too.

 

[The Wormhole]

Then don't make it a bloody streaming show, reign the budget in, get better writers set up bottle shows, etc.
If Tracker can get 20+ episodes, Star Trek can too.

Tracker is not a space opera, and you may have noticed that in the past decade there has been exactly one space opera on American network television, and that only managed two seasons of a dozen episodes each, and that's with an executive producer/creator/lead actor who had some pull with the network it aired on.

The days of Star Trek getting seven seasons with over twenty episodes each are in the past. Deal with it.

 

[Uhura's Song]

Booo!

On both counts.

More SNW, not less.

 

[fireproof78]

Tracker is not a space opera, and you may have noticed that in the past decade there has been exactly one space opera on American network television, and that only managed two seasons of a dozen episodes each, and that's with an executive producer/creator/lead actor who had some pull with the network it aired on.

The days of Star Trek getting seven seasons with over twenty episodes each are in the past. Deal with it.

Damn straight.

 

[Uhura's Song]

He and his team have a year or two to make this final season. I think they'll pull it off.

Maybe the episodes will get longer, a la Ted Lasso.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Tracker is not a space opera, and you may have noticed that in the past decade there has been exactly one space opera on American network television, and that only managed two seasons of a dozen episodes each, and that's with an executive producer/creator/lead actor who had some pull with the network it aired on.

The days of Star Trek getting seven seasons with over twenty episodes each are in the past. Deal with it.

Paramount is going under. Can you guess why?

 

[The Wormhole]

It certainly isn't because they aren't making twenty episodes of Star Trek a year.

 

[fireproof78]

It certainly isn't because they aren't making twenty episodes of Star Trek a year.

Ah yes, the old adage that they are failing because they don't adhere to fan expectations.

The market has changed with streaming. Maybe Paramount will learn; maybe they'll not. Odds are good that we won't see a sci-fi show like Trek at twenty plus episodes due to costs. So, maybe time to let go of the old model?

Or maybe Trek's day is done. All it does is cause complaining.

 

[I am not Spock]

I'm not shocked at the fifth season being the last, but six episodes is quite disappointing.

I'm sure they had to fight to get those six episodes. At least they have notice, before filming, unlike Discovery and Lower Decks.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

I heard sometime back on a YouTube channel that there won't be much in the way of shows after SNW and the Academy show have completed their runs. There might be a few things down the road; however, Star Trek, for the most part, is entering into a dormant state.

 

[The Wormhole]

I heard sometime back on a YouTube channel that there won't be much in the way of shows after SNW and the Academy show have completed their runs. There might be a few things down the road; however, Star Trek, for the most part, is entering into a dormant state.

That's definitely jumping the gun a bit. At the moment, we're guaranteed two live action shows through to 2027. If Academy gets five seasons, it could potentially be on the air until 2030, at which point the current era of Star Trek will have lasted for thirteen years, only five years less than the Berman era, which was at Voyager S6 at that point. In terms of popularity, the Berman era's heyday was well behind it at that point, so if the Kurtzman era does indeed end in 2030, it'll have had a good, solid run.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

The person I watched expected the Academy show to get five seasons.

 

[I am not Spock]

We haven't seen a second of the Academy show yet, so it's a bit premature to think it will get five seasons.

I guess it might be cheaper than SNW , or Discovery. They have (mostly) an unknown cast, except for Giamati , Hunter, and Picardo. And already have a bunch of sets left over from Disco

 

[Dukhat]

It's a really weird feeling to be mourning the loss of SNW after five seasons when we've only seen two of them so far.

Probably because it’s quite possible that they can stop broadcasting the show at any time.

 

[I am not Spock]

The real Canary in the coal mine will be if there's no announcements of future shows for a while, once the sale / merger with Skydance goes through. If it goes through and we hear nothing but crickets about the Tawny Newsome show, or A Janeway show, or even God damn "Legacy." Then I think we might be in for similar situation to 2005.

Trek's been dead before. It will rise again.

It feels like Kurtzman era only just started , but it seems to already be winding down. I suppose it has been eight years since Disco s1

 

[fireproof78]

There might be a few things down the road; however, Star Trek, for the most part, is entering into a dormant state.

Good deal.

 

[Farscape One]

I'm not reading through 4 pages right now, got better things to do.....
But has anyone considered the fact we MIGHT be getting 6 ninety minute episodes.......???
Telling 6 free standing stories?
Who knows......

We may get a 90 minute series finale. But all 6 six episodes, running past an hour?

Will not happen.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

That's definitely jumping the gun a bit. At the moment, we're guaranteed two live action shows through to 2027. If Academy gets five seasons, it could potentially be on the air until 2030, at which point the current era of Star Trek will have lasted for thirteen years, only five years less than the Berman era, which was at Voyager S6 at that point. In terms of popularity, the Berman era's heyday was well behind it at that point, so if the Kurtzman era does indeed end in 2030, it'll have had a good, solid run.

How dare you, how dare you bring logic and reason and facts into a discussion instead of relying on doomcrying and whatever some rando says on YouTube.

Sir, don't you realize this is the Internet?

 

[Cyrus]

I am disappointed. I was hoping for 10 seasons. But seems like 5 seasons is the goal for these streaming Trek shows vs 7 seasons when they were on broadcast TV.

I am surprised by the 6 episode count. It maybe similar to the GOT final season: the showrunners telling them that is the number of episodes they needed to wrap it up and they still get a 10 episode budget to spend on 6 episodes.

 

[Airmandan]

My hope is that by it being such a short season its a pilot season to a new show, preferably a new interpretation of TOS.