Poll Be honest, did you see the TV revival actually happening?

[Red Panda]

Come 2020, we're looking at potentially EIGHT different Star Trek TV series and miniseries hitting CBS All Access:

Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Short Treks
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Revolution
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Destiny
Star Trek: Reliant
Star Trek: Ceti Alpha V​

Did you think you'd ever see this TV revival actually happening?

Bonus question: Are you looking forward to potentially having a new episode of Star Trek each and every week?

 

[1001001]

Yes, of course.

I see everything.

 

[Tosk]

I always assumed Trek would be back on TV...but I would have lost money on a new Picard show.

 

[Arpy]

It hasn't happened yet. They announced, what, 9 upcoming Star Wars movies...and then shelved them after Solo didn't make the gagillions expected? In some alternate universes, all those Trek projects will be make, and maybe in one of those they'll all actually be good, but I'm not holding my breath for any of them. Hell, look at the disagreements over the ones that made it to air. ....if I may throw some reactor coolant on this warp fire.

 

[Refuge]

No I didn't see it happening like this. I anticipated a post-Voyager possibility on free to air TV. Still it is what it is and any Trek keeps the dream alive!

 

[Jayson1]

Yes I did. I even sort of predicted the Picard and cartoon thing. Granted with Picard I saw it as a kind of all-star reunion mini-series instead of what I think they are doing but I got close. I did not predict them going back to the old continuity other than the Picard thing and thankfully they didn't with "Discovery." I did think a reboot though was going to happen at some point. Now it's kind of happened twice with both the Kelvin movies and Discovery. What I couldn't predict in a million years is a Tarantino Trek movie. I don't think anyone saw that one coming.


Jason

 

[rahullak]

I anticipated Trek coming back to TV, but was still glad when "Discovery" was announced. I did not anticipate 8 different Treks to be produced, and I am excited that they are. I only hope nothing stalls and dies. More Trek keeps it alive, even though it makes the creators' jobs more difficult, what with keeping everything consistent.

 

[Lord Garth]

As soon as I heard that Star Trek was doing well on Netflix, somewhere in the early-2010s, I figured they'd bring it back to TV. That the 2009 film was such a success definitely helped.

In an overall sense though, even in 2005, I didn't think ENT would be the last series ever. It was just a question of the how and when it would come back.

One thing I couldn't have predicted was this varied of a selection. How much I look forward to Star Trek every week depends on the series in question. I don't think I'll like them all as much as Discovery but I hope I like all of them enough to keep coming back. I guess, soon enough, we'll see. Either way, I'm glad the Third Age of Star Trek on TV is here.

 

[Cyrus]

I knew it would come back. But I expected one series, not this many around the same time.

Ceti Alpha V is obviously the Khan miniseries.

Is Destiny the Picard series?

I hope they open up short Treks to be any kind of story instead of Discovery based stories only, but I guess that due to budget limitations they want to reuse existing sets. Once Picard starts they could do short Treks based on that too.

 

[Jayson1]

Perhaps Short Treks next year can clue people in what the rest of the TNG crew is up to if they don't become a part of the bigger, Picard show.


Jason

 

[F. King Daniel]

No, I really didn't. I understand why it's happening (keep those Disco subscribers all year around), and although it's gonna be really cool for the next couple of years the long-term picture is not so good. Just look at Netflix's Marvel series, 2 of which are cancelled and viewing data indicates the future of the remaining 3 is bleak. Trek will likely oversaturate itself and die again in the next 5 years. It'll be a glorious death, at least.

Hopefully I am jumping to conclusions too soon, but I am also saddened by the seeming quiet demise of the Kelvin movie series following the Chris' exit from SJ Clarkson's Star Trek 4

 

[XCV330]

I dont think they'll all make it into production but some will. I thought something like this would eventually happen just because Star Trek is a hot property that at some point a studio would finally really put some money into.

 

[Relayer1]

I've expected Trek back on TV (eventually) since Enterprise finished - it's Trek's natural home and too valuable property to leave idle.

I don't like the movies either, so was invested in a return to the small screen.

 

[johnnybear]

They're so obsessed with money in this world that they plunder all the classic shows and remake them because they were mega popular once thirty to fifty years ago but the newer versions aren't a patch on the originals! There are no new ideas in Hollywood or anywhere else it seems!
JB

 

[Butters]

I imagined it would return at some point, but not Prime, and certainly not the multitude of projects.

What they have announced is a bit like what i was wishing for in the Nineties, but I’m not convinced they can pull it off now any more than they could have done then.

I’ll compare the CBS approach to what Marvel is doing with the MCU because for Marvel, it’s proving lucrative and CBS want a piece, but Marvel have a strategy, a game plan. What i am sensing with Star Trek is a production line. Marvel is also taking existing popular characters and stories, and adapting them to the screen. This new Trek feels like they’re making it up as they go along. If this true, like it was for DS9, VOY and ENT, the revival will be very short lived indeed.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I knew that there would be new Star Trek shows eventually, but I missed the boat on both when and where. I was thinking it would be some time after Star Trek XIV and it would be on a non-premium cable network. In hindsight, Trek has been used to jumpstart a new outlet ever since TNG (TNG boosted Paramount's first-run syndication division; VOY kicked off the now defunct UPN; and DIS pretty much put CBS All Access on the map, IMO).

 

[Visitor1982]

I expected Star Trek to be back on TV, but not as big as this.

I do wonder if one of those titles could be the Captain Pike spin off...

 

[bolak]

It'd be great if they assigned each branch to a different production team; eight new series looks great but not if it means eight clones of post-2000-style Trek all churned out by the same familiar names.

I haven't watched any new Trek since the pilot of Enterprise ( though season 4 of that show seems to be well regarded due to the writers ) and lost interest halfway through Voyager. Everything was just 'meh'.

Short Treks interests me the most, if they could make it an anthology series or perhaps short arcs of three or four episodes each.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Short Treks
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Revolution
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Destiny
Star Trek: Reliant
Star Trek: Ceti Alpha V

Have all of these series been announced? I'm aware of announcements only for the first three and for the Jean-Luc Picard series, whichever one that is.

 

[Cyrus]

What I couldn't predict in a million years is a Tarantino Trek movie.

Let’s hope it actually gets made, with Tarantino still involved as writer or director.