CBS files for two new trademarks: Star Trek Picard and...

[Qonundrum]

Star Trek: Prodigy certainly sounds like it could be the Nickelodeon kids show.

Or a band name for some crude heavy metal-like songs that are for anybody except the kiddies!

Starfleet Academy is kind of a lazy name, and kind of shooting themselves in the foot if they wish to last more than four years.

True, but it worked for a video game...

Will kids be able to say "Prodigy"?

For every additional syllable used in a word, the statistically less likely it is for anyone under 30 to write or say it. Unless they're doing a "Young Wesley" show, but "Star Trek: The Prodigal Son" just lacks the pizazz...

 

[Tim Thomason]

True, but it worked for a video game...

A video game and a couple comic book series and a couple novel series and an undeveloped movie.

 

[Krandor]

Star Trek: Prodigy.

Cool. So this confirms Wesley is coming back.

This will also be two STP shows....let the debates begin.

 

[Krandor]

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Starfleet Academy is kind of a lazy name, and kind of shooting themselves in the foot if they wish to last more than four years.

Didn't stop shows like Buffy or 90201.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Didn't stop shows like Buffy or 90201.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a description of the main character. 90201 is a zip code of the location of the show. Neither of them are tied to a scholastic location by name.

"Starfleet Academy" brings to mind the idea that we're following characters as they attend the Academy, usually depicted as a four-year institution. There are tons of ways around it, but it spreads incredulity if the main characters aren't allowed to graduate on time and/or all get jobs as instructors or something in Season 5. Glee and Community had the same issue, and dealt with it in their own way.

 

[DEWLine]

"Four years and out" for student characters at an Academy-based series suits me. If they want to show a mix of characters - cadets with different graduation-years, and faculty, and civilians - that's even more preferable.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Pretty sure Kirk is referenced as having done a 5th year. Spock in the Kelvin universe remained on as an instructor after graduating. Plenty of scope to keep characters around.

An even easier way as I said before is ditch the one season = one year thing. It's pointless.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Pretty sure Kirk is referenced as having done a 5th year. Spock in the Kelvin universe remained on as an instructor after graduating. Plenty of scope to keep characters around.

An even easier way as I said before is ditch the one season = one year thing. It's pointless.

If Academy is a CW show, then it will likely have 22 or so episode seasons, except for maybe the first season if it's a midseason replacement. If it was a 10-episode season on All-Access, then I'd agree that it would probably just be a series of story arcs that our Cadet heroes will deal with, with dates being barely a factor.

But, a season conveniently spread out the equivalent of a school year makes me think that that would be too much to not utilize for potential storylines (and you have the drama of a new school year, etc.). Unlike the aforementioned Buffy and 90210, Star Trek is set in the future, not roughly "real time", so they don't have to lend themselves to the calendar year and can begin and end each season wherever.

If we aren't focusing on one class, but instead a group of Cadets (and Instructors) of varying ages, maybe only one real main character as he or she enters the Academy, then every season (if equivalent to a year) will have drama and tensity regarding what will happen to Character B or C. Maybe just our main character will become an instructor in his fifth year, or enter the Command Training Program.

 

[bigdaddy]

Star Fleet Academy and then if the show is a hit you just make spinoffs.

Star Trek: Throw Enough Shit to the Wall and Something Will Stick.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Pretty sure Kirk is referenced as having done a 5th year.

IIRC, Merik flunked out of the Academy in his fifth year.

 

[Andru]

"Star Trek: Section 31" has finally shown up as a new CBS trademark.

 

[Rasmussen]

Meh..

Never liked Section 31 nor the implications of it. It doesnt really fit the unrealistically idealist vision of my Star Trek escapism.

 

[Dukhat]

"Star Trek: Section 31" has finally shown up as a new CBS trademark.

“Star Trek: Evil Guys in Black Outfits That We’re Doing a Show About For Some Reason.”

 

[Turtletrekker]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a description of the main character. 90201 is a zip code of the location of the show. Neither of them are tied to a scholastic location by name.

"Starfleet Academy" brings to mind the idea that we're following characters as they attend the Academy, usually depicted as a four-year institution. There are tons of ways around it, but it spreads incredulity if the main characters aren't allowed to graduate on time and/or all get jobs as instructors or something in Season 5. Glee and Community had the same issue, and dealt with it in their own way.

What about MASH? The show that ran 11 seasons and was set entirely within the confines of the two-and-a-half year Korean War?