He was a lieutenant.
I know many call for this maybe it would work but personally I hate this idea.
Why is this? A matter of quality or something else? I could get behind fewer episodes per season if they did away with the silliness completely. Longer seasons require a different sort of writing team than short seasons. Dare I say you need at least a couple of old-fashioned hacks who can recycle past scripts and plots from endless shows into something that seem new and fresh this week. It goes back to that old trope about 'no new stories under the sun.' Trek has a real problem with that, these days. I think half the problem for the writers is that they feel like it's all been done before. The writing team for longer seasons needs some guys with skillsets like Don Bellisario, Glen Larson, and Aaron Spelling. I mean, look at old shows like The Love Boat and Magnum P.I. How many different ways can you tell the same story over and over, but those shows were hugely successful and ran for almost a decade nevertheless? And I don't buy any tripe about modern audiences being more sophisticated. On the contrary, they suffer from incredibly short attention spans and a lack of critical thinking skills. Everything has to be spelled out for audiences who can't stop scrolling their phones while they 'watch' a TV show.
I kind of got onto a GenX rant there, so back to the original question: why not longer seasons?
Why? You already have a franchise that is struggling with its identity because there is so much of a back catalogue. I'm not sure pumping out higher numbers of more of the same is the answer.
Well, I'm thinking more in terms of a total reboot or a mid-25h century continuation with no callbacks or old cast members. Not trying to wedge another show into a prequel-TOS era.
Even then, you're still going to have a thousand hour back catalogue to compete with. In all honesty, I'm personally fine with ten-episode seasons. What I'm not fine with is having to wait sometimes 18 months between season.
Can't argue with the second part. As to the first, that was kind of what I was driving at when talking about writing teams. You need some writers who can take all the seasons of BSG, Trek, Stargate, Miami Vice, Murder She Wrote, Buck Rogers, NCIS, JAG, and numerous others, file the serial numbers off (as Heinlein would put it) and repackage the old story into something that feels a little new, even if it isn't. TV writers used to be experts at this, consistently putting out 22 episode seasons every year for years on end. Yes, some of those scripts were absolute stinkers. Occasionally you would get something genuinely new and outstanding. But you didn't have to wait 18 months between seasons, and to be honest, these ten-episode seasons we're getting aren't all that great in comparison.
I think SNW season four is probably the most engaged I've been with a Trek live-action TV property since TNG season four.
Fair enough. Enjoyment of all this stuff is subjective to the individual. For me, it's been the cast that keeps me coming back every week- definitely not the writing or the production values.
I think that would have been the smart way to maintain the franchise after Voyager. They missed out on so many incredible possibilities. You had the casts of TNG, DS9, and Voyager that could have been used, not to mention recurring and guest stars. The bench was so deep, they wouldn't have even needed to touch the TNG people if they wanted them to focus on the feature films.
Unfortunately, the studio needed a regular series for UPN. I like Enterprise, and happy we got it, but what might have been, eh?
It might have been a rant, but it was right on the money. There is nothing "sophisticated" about the modern audience. If I ever saw that claim made, I would need at least five minutes to pick myself up off the floor from laughter. Sophisticated? Please. Misinformed? Yes. Lack of patience to let a good story build? Yes, because that is what they call "boring." Anyone who watches the TWOK or The Visitor and find it to be "boring," then this really isn't the franchise for them and the powers that be are stupid for trying to cater to their tastes.
Been a fan since 1975, this one was dull.
i do miss 22 episode seasons, with just 10 episodes you are just in to it, and then it is done.
and with more episodes they could do more story arcs now they try to cram everything in to a few episodes and it get's messy
and with more episodes they could do more story arcs now they try to cram everything in to a few episodes and it get's messy
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