If we look at the showrunners CBS has been hiring and firing, there is a distinct sense of trying to move away from Berman but being very careful and therefore making do with whoever you can get, realizing it’s not working then hiring someone else,
That's not why Disco keeps changing showrunners. Bryan Fuller was fired because he was basically dicking around and not doing any work, which resulted in the show's premiere date being postponed twice. And while dicking around and not getting any work done, he somehow nearly bankrupted the show's rather impressively sized budget. And since leaving Disco, he's been fired from two other shows for similar reasons. Harbert and Berg were fired because they were physically abusive to the other writers on staff.
“Well, RDM knows Star Trek and then he made nBSG, why not simply hire him and see what he’d do alone?”
1) Ron Moore currently has his own show he's working on.
2) At this stage in his career, I doubt very much he'd even want to return to Star Trek, even as showrunner.
It’s not a show by committee or the fans’ money to spend, but fans can want what they want and need not accept the status quo if they can watch something else.
Most fans don't. I'm critical of Disco and don't think a good majority of the decisions made are necessarily the right ones. But that's irrelevant. The fact is there are enough people who are willingly handing over money to subscribe to All Access, Netflix or get the Space channel through their cable provider in order to watch Disco, and it is successful for all three sources to prove to TPTB they're doing something right. If Disco were any kind of a failure, people would not be voluntarily watching it.
Just like I'm underwhelmed by the idea of a Section 31 series. Spy shows with morally dubious characters are plentiful, and I don't think that they are a fit for what Trek is.
One thing CBS is getting right with their planned Star Trek spin-offs is having each one be something different, a different facet of the franchise. Disco is more or less "traditional Star Trek," Picard is basically character oriented drama, Section 31 espionage and spy intrigue, Lower Decks a comedy, and the other animated show something for kids. Regardless of what one may think of these ideas, I believe there is merit to doing something different for each show. When you get down to it, the period of 1966-2005 is basically the same premise: adventures of a starship. Variations of the theme include the starship 100 years in the future or 100 years in the past, the ship that is stranded in a distant region of the galaxy, and the one that is in fact a space station instead. As much as I like Anson Mount, that's basically my issue with Pike series a majority of fandom are clamoring for: it's just going to be more of the same and doesn't have anything new to bring to the table.
But I think you should know that every time you post in this thread, a kitten dies.
Meh, let me know when the thread starts posing a threat to turtles.
