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[Uhura's Song]

The fandom contains a massive culture that is populated with people who think that if they have big enough temper tantrums, they will always get what they want. I suspect they grew up with absurdly permissive and over-indulgent parents. In fairness, this is pretty much endemic to most genre fandoms these days - not just Trek. Baked into the DNA, more's the pity...

To be fair, the whole reason SNW existed, and TAS, was fan demand. And the TOS movies. And PRO S2. So...

 

[137th Gebirg]

Write-ins and petitions are one thing. Lying to, or injecting hopeum into, the fandom under false pretenses (the topic to which I was originally responding) is quite another - the latter being unacceptable, IMO. Two different approaches. Only one is legitimate.

 

[fireproof78]

I don’t think very many…if any…want 26 episodes a season. People just want more than 8-10.

Episode count should vary based on the show and the story or stories they are trying to tell. SNW could do 15-18 episodes easily. But Picard probably should have been capped at 4-6…especially the mostly wretched S2.

People already complain about stale ideas and recycled plots. I don't think I want more episodes just for that.

 

[The Wormhole]

To be fair, the whole reason SNW existed, and TAS, was fan demand. And the TOS movies. And PRO S2. So...

Hardly. Yes, there was fan demand, but those wouldn't have gotten greenlit without legitimate business related reasons to back the decision up.

And in the case of Prodigy, it was already greenlit for a second season, which was close to completion when the cancellation announcement came down. Netflix swooped in because it was a guaranteed money maker for them at little cost to them. But regardless, even if no one had picked up Prodigy S2 when the plug was pulled, the season would still exist, fan demand had nothing to do with that unless you consider any TV show currently in production owing its existence to fan demand.

 

[Dukhat]

To be fair, the whole reason SNW existed, and TAS, was fan demand. And the TOS movies. And PRO S2. So...

Goldsman was already interested in making a Pike show, and sold the idea to CBS, before the fans even knew about SNW. So its existence had nothing to do with the fans.