How long should a season be in this new Star Trek show?

[Anna Yolei]

I hope for 26 just because Star Trek has so many different modes and I like the variety. You get great though provoking, comedic, touching, painful and just totally off the wall (or deep end) and so much more. It's a whole experience.

I imagine it's more likely though that it will be 13.

Not even the highest rated broadcast television show gets more than 22. A number of them even do fewer than this, and such was the case well before Voyager ended.

I honestly think that 26 episode run led the producers of the last two shows to be lazy and pad everything up with more dumb episodes. Take Enterprise's 3rd season for example, which was an season long arc, but the first two-thirds was full of more filling than a box of Twinkies. There was the episode that was the Westerner thing that went nowhere, the Rajiin one that...I honestly don't even remember much about, the alien hatchling that turned Archer crazy and got us another mutant copout plot....hell, TIIC had that stupid pissing match between Reed and the MACO Hayes, which could've been a good clash against fundamental ideals of the two organizations....except this was only the second time they'd ever been in an episode together and they didn't even speak directly to each other in the ONE scene they shared.

Nope, I'm fully behind keeping the season to well under 20 until and unless the writers prove they can handle more.

 

[trekyourself]

From what I hear they're being released weekly. Considering just how important this show is for CBS's new streaming service, and how it appears to be their primary draw, they may do more episodes to keep trekkies from bailing on the service after a few months in. You do a 20 week season, and people are pretty used to paying the monthly bill by then.

 

[Jedman67]

The news sites are saying 13. It's really unlikely it's going to be more, but one can hope.

 

[Jedman67]

Not even the highest rated broadcast television show gets more than 22. A number of them even do fewer than this, and such was the case well before Voyager ended.

I honestly think that 26 episode run led the producers of the last two shows to be lazy and pad everything up with more dumb episodes. Take Enterprise's 3rd season for example, which was an season long arc, but the first two-thirds was full of more filling than a box of Twinkies. There was the episode that was the Westerner thing that went nowhere, the Rajiin one that...I honestly don't even remember much about, the alien hatchling that turned Archer crazy and got us another mutant copout plot....hell, TIIC had that stupid pissing match between Reed and the MACO Hayes, which could've been a good clash against fundamental ideals of the two organizations....except this was only the second time they'd ever been in an episode together and they didn't even speak directly to each other in the ONE scene they shared.

Nope, I'm fully behind keeping the season to well under 20 until and unless the writers prove they can handle more.

The whole Enterprise had some great episodes but there was far more filler than DS9. Possibly even more than Voyager.

 

[RandyS]

Not even the highest rated broadcast television show gets more than 22. A number of them even do fewer than this, and such was the case well before Voyager ended.

I honestly think that 26 episode run led the producers of the last two shows to be lazy and pad everything up with more dumb episodes. Take Enterprise's 3rd season for example, which was an season long arc, but the first two-thirds was full of more filling than a box of Twinkies. There was the episode that was the Westerner thing that went nowhere, the Rajiin one that...I honestly don't even remember much about, the alien hatchling that turned Archer crazy and got us another mutant copout plot....hell, TIIC had that stupid pissing match between Reed and the MACO Hayes, which could've been a good clash against fundamental ideals of the two organizations....except this was only the second time they'd ever been in an episode together and they didn't even speak directly to each other in the ONE scene they shared.

Well, to be fair some of those one -off "filler's" were the good parts in an otherwise useless season.

 

[Paradise City]

I'd love to go back to twenty plus.
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It's just a different media landscape now. You gotta hit the ground running. There's no luxury of having one or two seasons to "find oneself". You gotta be good from the off -- or else it runs aground. .

Any incarnation of Star Trek had alot of dud or middling episodes in a spate of twenty plus shows. That really can't happen any more. Virtually all have to be tip top strong episodes so about 10 or 12 episodes is just about sustainable with a strong writing team that have gelled with each other.

 

[TwoJakes]

so about 10 or 12 episodes

Wait, two and a half months of new programming, then it's gone for nine and a half months?

That's insane. By the time season two arrives everyone will have forgotten about it.

 

[cultcross]

Wait, two and a half months of new programming, then it's gone for nine and a half months?

That's insane. By the time season two arrives everyone will have forgotten about it.

Orange is the New Black provides one day of new programming and 364 days of waiting for the next release.
House of Cards the same. No-one forgets about them between seasons.

 

[Paradise City]

Well, just scanning over The Flash there and they do a 20 plus run. So maybe they will do that.