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Alex Kurtzman has produced more episodes of Star Trek than Gene Roddenberry

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Roddenberry is the credited producer of:
* 80 episodes of TOS (counting "The Cage" and "The Menagerie" as three total)
* 22 episodes of TAS
* 126 episodes of TNG.
This totals 228, though per Memory Alpha 15 of those episodes were purely posthumous credits, so really 213 episodes where he at least potentially had involvement.

Kurtzman produced:
* 65 episodes of Discovery
* 30 episodes of Picard
* 50 episodes of Lower Decks
* 40 episodes of Prodigy
* 30 released episodes of Strange New Worlds

I'm inclined to count the 10 episodes of Short Treks, but since many wouldn't I'll leave them off. That's a total of 215 released episodes, plus 16 upcoming episodes of Strange New Worlds and at least 20 episodes of Starfleet Academy. This totals an impressive 251, which passes Roddenberry's credits (even including posthumous) by a good amount.

In terms of actual show-hours, it's worth noting that Kurtzman produced 90 half-hour-ish animated episodes versus Roddenberry's 22, and Roddenberry is still in the lead if you refuse to count animation at all for some reason.

Note that Kurtzman's number is arguably significantly higher: He's also produced 10 episodes of Short Treks (noted but not included above), 20 episodes of Scouts*, 9 episodes of the Khan podcast, 6 very Short Treks promos*, a streaming movie, two feature films (Roddenberry produced six), and countless fits of rage from grumpy fans.

Whether you like Kurtzman's work or not, it's an impressive number even if his contract doesn't end up getting renewed past 2026. Admittedly, Gene would be a credited producer on more had we not lost him in 1991. It's not a competition in any case, but it still feels impressive that the new era has flourished enough to have that much output.

And, if it was a competition, Rick Berman's total of 624 (including overlap with Roddenberry on TNG) greatly surpasses both combined.**

And Gene Roddenberry's "created by" credit is all-inclusive.


* A lack of credits make it hard to confirm if he was a producer on Scouts and very Short Treks, though I'd be very surprised if he wasn't. Also not sure if he was a producer on After Treks, The Ready Room, or The Pod Directive, though at minimum he appeared on each. [EDIT: He probably wasn't a producer on Scouts; see thread below. The Secret Hideout web site doesn't list the behind-the-scenes shows either.]

** Note that I'm counting any producer role for all three: Executive producer, co-executive producer, producer, or supervising producer. So these numbers include things such as seasons where Roddenberry largely stepped back, early TNG where Berman had a lower role, animated series where Kurtzman seems to have been less active and not even a credited co-creator, and overlap where I'm counting Roddenberry and Berman for the same episodes.
 
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Kurtzman has the disadvantage of today's production values making it impossible to do much more than 10 episodes per show per year compared to 26 in peak Berman era. It would be interesting to see how many man hours in prod and post prod Kurtzman led compared to Berman. He also did this all in less years. When all is said and done, it will likely be a solid decade compared to 18 years for Berman.
 
* A lack of credits make it hard to confirm if he was a producer on Scouts and very Short Treks, though I'd be very surprised if he wasn't.

IMDb does not list Secret Hideout as a production company on either. With no evidence of Kurtzman's involvement, I wouldn't count him as a producer on either of them. Best to avoid speculation.

And there's no reason to assume he'd have to be involved, since Secret Hideout is just a subcontractor working for CBS Studios. Things like Scouts and very Short Treks are far enough removed from conventional Trek productions that they might not fall under whatever exclusive license SH has, if any.
 
IMDb does not list Secret Hideout as a production company on either. With no evidence of Kurtzman's involvement, I wouldn't count him as a producer on either of them. Best to avoid speculation.

And there's no reason to assume he'd have to be involved, since Secret Hideout is just a subcontractor working for CBS Studios. Things like Scouts and very Short Treks are far enough removed from conventional Trek productions that they might not fall under whatever exclusive license SH has, if any.
Digging deeper, Secret Hideout's web site lists very Short Treks in a list of "Star Trek Produced or Executive Produced by Secret Hideout or Alex Kurtzman."


That said, I retract the speculation that he may have worked on Scouts, as I can't find any connection there beyond the Star Trek Day announcements. For some reason I was thinking he was part of the announcement in September, but I'm not seeing any evidence of it, and I am seeing a lot of things that hint that Secret Hideout probably isn't involved.

* Scouts isn't listed on the Secret Hideout site, but neither is Starfleet Academy, so the list isn't current.
* The user-generated IMDb information for Scouts is incomplete and has been reliant on things like social media for identifying the actors, but as you mention it doesn't mention Secret Hideout in the production company list.
* The press release on Scouts only mentioned that it was "Developed and produced by Nickelodeon Digital Studio in association with CBS Studios" with no mention of Secret Hideout, so good chance they weren't involved. This is in contrast to Prodigy press releases, which generally identified Secret Hideout as a production company involved with the show.

So while I can't 100% rule out Secret Hideout being involved, there's no evidence I see indicating they were and a lot hinting they aren't, so I retract that bit of speculation.

Though for numbers purposes I didn't count either series of shorts in any case.
 
Digging deeper, Secret Hideout's web site lists very Short Treks in a list of "Star Trek Produced or Executive Produced by Secret Hideout or Alex Kurtzman."


That said, I retract the speculation that he may have worked on Scouts, as I can't find any connection there beyond the Star Trek Day announcements. For some reason I was thinking he was part of the announcement in September, but I'm not seeing any evidence of it, and I am seeing a lot of things that hint that Secret Hideout probably isn't involved.

* Scouts isn't listed on the Secret Hideout site, but neither is Starfleet Academy, so the list isn't current.
* The user-generated IMDb information for Scouts is incomplete and has been reliant on things like social media for identifying the actors, but as you mention it doesn't mention Secret Hideout in the production company list.
* The press release on Scouts only mentioned that it was "Developed and produced by Nickelodeon Digital Studio in association with CBS Studios" with no mention of Secret Hideout, so good chance they weren't involved. This is in contrast to Prodigy press releases, which generally identified Secret Hideout as a production company involved with the show.

So while I can't 100% rule out Secret Hideout being involved, there's no evidence I see indicating they were and a lot hinting they aren't, so I retract that bit of speculation.

Though for numbers purposes I didn't count either series of shorts in any case.
Starfleet Acadamy hasn't premiered yet.

And if you include the remaining scheduled episodes in production and soon to be produced, you can add another 36 episodes to the Kurtzman tally uptrend, IE:

16 more for SNW (S4 & S5).

20 episodes for SFA (S1 & S2).

And it's always possible (but I don't think likely unless SFA is a huge P+ streaming hit), that it could be greenlit for S3+). :shrug:
 
Starfleet Acadamy hasn't premiered yet.

And if you include the remaining scheduled episodes in production and soon to be produced, you can add another 36 episodes to the Kurtzman tally uptrend, IE:

16 more for SNW (S4 & S5).

20 episodes for SFA (S1 & S2).

And it's always possible (but I don't think likely unless SFA is a huge P+ streaming hit), that it could be greenlit for S3+). :shrug:
Sorry if I phrased it unclearly, but unless I'm missing your point I'm pretty sure I said all that in the original post.
 
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