I never doubted that Trek would return to TV someday, but I'll cop to thinking that the Prime Continuity was dead as doornails, except for the books and comics and such. Oops.
Poll Be honest, did you see the TV revival actually happening?
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I never doubted that Trek would return to TV someday, but I'll cop to thinking that the Prime Continuity was dead as doornails, except for the books and comics and such. Oops.
Trek belongs on TV, just waiting for it to get back to being as good as the DS9 days.
It was only a matter of time before CBS tried again after Enterprise. If it hadn't been for whatever deal they had with Paramount they probably would've gone ahead with it even sooner.
I doubt Paramount had any influence in this.
They did. Even Moonves confirmed there was a deal with Paramount/Bad Robot about when CBS were able to start the TV franchise again.
I was actually more excited during the heyday of open fanfilm possibilities..... I know I'm weird and no one will share my opinion. Maybe it was just comfort-food (like Orville) - but all of that attention to detail and attempts to fit into prime continuity, sound FX, CGI, music, aesthetics, gave me way more happiness and excitement then anything else has. Discovery was okay as a random sci fi show, and I was never really a Picard fan to begin with - finding fan films is what bought me back to Trek after a good 10-15 year absence.
Yes, I saw it coming. Obviously not the exact number or types of shows but the writing was on the wall as soon as we learned Star Trek does well on streaming. For a streaming service a franchise like Star Trek is a goldmine and it makes sense to offer more content than 13-15 episodes per year to keep the fans as subscribers.
I thought we'd see a sister series to Star Trek 2009 after the commercial and critical success of that movie. In the current (potential) renaissance seems to me to have come a little late. I wouldn't have predicted the Picard series in a million years. Despite liking Discovery very much I was against yet another prequel series. That being said, it is very exciting.
Just give me the Picard series and 'The Orville.' Don't really care about the other 'revived' series
Alternatively, give these fan creators some seed money and the right to produce their series under 'Star Trek' banner. IMHO they made a better Trek episode in years compared to the current CBSAA show-runners:
A logical conclusion given what the current show-runners are doing with 'Discovery,' which was also influenced from the plots of JJ Trek movies (darker plotlines, focus more on 'pew-pews' than actual explorations, etc).
I hope the Picard series would be one last chance for a real Trek series featuring the Prime universe, but until I actually saw it I wouldn't hold my breath
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After ENT, I knew someday there'd be another series, but I always assumed there would be at most one TV project and one film series running concurrently. No clue that there'd be this many projects under active development.
I'm apprehensive about it, considering the Trek exhaustion that seemed to end the TNG-era shows, but here's hoping for the best.
I'm apprehensive about it, considering the Trek exhaustion that seemed to end the TNG-era shows, but here's hoping for the best.
Just give me the Picard series and 'The Orville.' Don't really care about the other 'revived' series
Yes to both
@picardjean-luc , please use the multi-quote feature (+Quote) to respond to multiple posts, rather than posting four times in a row. Thanks.A logical conclusion given what the current show-runners are doing with 'Discovery,' which was also influenced from the plots of JJ Trek movies (darker plotlines, focus more on 'pew-pews' than actual explorations, etc).
I hope the Picard series would be one last chance for a real Trek series featuring the Prime universe, but until I actually saw it I wouldn't hold my breath
I knew (and predicted at the time Enterprise was cancelled and Nemesis bombed) that sooner or later there would be more Trek. My reasoning was that after a while there would be enough nostalgia factor built up that some executive would realise that they had the rights to this show and hadn't done anything with it for a long time, so why not give it a whirl?
I did not think it would happen in the way it has, though.
Given the episodes we're getting, no. I am not.
I'll call it "television" just to keep the wording simple. I think increasingly more and more viewers are going to watch TV online anyway. I have no use for conventional television broadcasts anymore. I do all my viewing on YouTube or streaming services. A lot of other people here probably do too.
I'm going to amend this. I figured Star Trek they'd bring Star Trek back to TV. I didn't think they'd do a follow-up to TNG/DS9/VOY where it's just 20 years later. I thought it would either be a hard reboot like Battlestar Galactica or they'd jump to 100 years later, when all the TNG Era characters would be dead and any differences in the Star Trek Universe could be chalked up to changes that naturally occur over a century.
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Tell that to Canada
On CBS??? The studio which manufactures as many spinoff series or wannabees from a particular source (JAG, NCIS, CSI, Survivor, Big Brother, Criminal Minds, and those great remakes like MacGuyver, Magnum P.I. & Hawaii 5-O) as they possibly can to the point where none of those produced has any soul or identity what so ever.
No. I don't think I can bare too many Trek shows where the plots are derived from fan service, while the characters are blurting out F bombs from a writers' room who are creatively bankrupt while desperately trying to be cool at the ages of 40 - 60 years of age.
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