News Complete 1st Season to Air on CBS terrestrial in Sept

[Noname Given]

Star Trek at times in the 60's had decent nielson ratings, and it survived very well in reruns. It managed to run two concurrent series throughout the nineties. It had an 18 year uninterrupted run from the 80's to early 0's. I wouldn't call it niche. During that run Mandalorian was obscure EU book stuff. I wouldn't have dreamed people that once snorted "nerd" derisively when faced with anything that looked like space or a robot would be avidly discussing baby yoda, Mandalorians or how Han's blastec blaster is really based off a Broomhandle Mauser. Stuff is well and truly changed. Star Trek can get that kind of audience pick up as well..

(but i will admit, i kind of hope it doesnt)

It managed to run two syndicated series in the '90s. They already knew had they tried to relaunch Star Trek on an actual network back then, It probably would have lasted 13 episodes at most. (And hell the first two seasons of TNG are not good writing at all.)

The current Star Trek series are in a similar situation. They're on a platform completely controlled by the production company that makes the episodes. Paramount is counting on the existing fan base jumping in whole hog for whatever reason (IE - Even if they're complaining, In the end they are watching the show and generating revenue for Paramount in some fashion); and in the end all that counts as far as paramount is concerned is the return on investment (ROI), and as long as that ROI is good, Paramount will continue to produce Star Trek.

One thing you can say about the Star Trek franchise in general that wasn't true for Star Wars is that there is never been more than a four-year period between a major Star Trek TV or film production.

The fan film folks like to declare Star Trek dead whenever there's a lull in official production, but from 1969 to today there's never been more than a 4 year gap with no official Star Trek TV series or film being produced by Paramount / CBS.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

The fan film folks like to declare Star Trek dead whenever there's a lull in official production, but from 1969 to today there's never been more than a 4 year gap with no official Star Trek TV series or film being produced by Paramount / CBS.

Heck, you could say there was only an 11 month period where Trek was inactive. Between the cancellation of ENTERPRISE in May 2005 and J.J. Abrams signing on for the film in April 2006.

I was born shortly before TNG began airing, so for the first 18 years of my life Trek was ALWAYS on the air. Because of that, the four year gap between ENT and ST09 felt almost like an eternity as I never lived through a time when there was zero new Trek content.

And you know what? That gap actually made me appreciate Trek even more. I only sporadically watched Trek back in the Berman era (I think the only complete seasons I watched with dedication was VOY's fourth and DS9's seventh). Now today I wouldn't miss any Trek.

 

[Noname Given]

Heck, you could say there was only an 11 month period where Trek was inactive. Between the cancellation of ENTERPRISE in May 2005 and J.J. Abrams signing on for the film in April 2006.

I was born shortly before TNG began airing, so for the first 18 years of my life Trek was ALWAYS on the air. Because of that, the four year gap between ENT and ST09 felt almost like an eternity as I never lived through a time when there was zero new Trek content.

And you know what? That gap actually made me appreciate Trek even more. I only sporadically watched Trek back in the Berman era (I think the only complete seasons I watched with dedication was VOY's fourth and DS9's seventh). Now today I wouldn't miss any Trek.

Yeah I guess is someone who saw the original series first run on NBC, (in 1969, I was 6) and then watched it for decades in reruns: overall a 4 year gap even when I was young, wasn't much.

Plus Star Trek's syndication was sporadic for me until about 1975, so I'd already caught all of TAS (1973-75) before I'd actually seen all 79 original series episodes. And by the time ST:TMP came along, I still wasn't tired of watching the repeats.

 

[fireproof78]

still wasn't tired of watching the repeats.

Wait, you're supposed to get tired of repeat viewing?

 

[Donald G]

Wait, you're supposed to get tired of repeat viewing?

It took me about 40 years, but I eventually got to that point.

 

[fireproof78]

It took me about 40 years, but I eventually got to that point.

I'll be surprised when it happens to me.