Is it time to put Star Trek to rest?

[kkt]

What you are doing is called Faulty Analogy. It's a logical fallacy. The previous poster did not suggest Wil Wheaton play Kirk. Frankly, I think he probably could. He's a decent actor, and Kirk isn't exactly the hardest character to play. But no one suggested he play Kirk. The difference is that Wheaton was already known for one important character. It might be jarring to see him move from that role to another one that's even more iconic. However that in itself isn't necessarily a problem. Two words: Jeffrey Combs.

Combs was a phenomenon. It wouldn't be fair to expect another actor to be able to do the same thing. (I wanna know if Combs got paid double for playing two different parts in the same episode!)

 

[Dar70]

Now that's a real trick. I know time travel was involved in the story but not like that.

To do what, exactly?

Who would have learned what? Those people in charge now we're not charge then. What were they there to learn?

-First one was a typo. 2007. I corrected it.

-The franchise is fatigued. Give it a break to either totally reboot or come up with better show ideas.
- what do you mean to learn what? Oversaturation. As far as I know paramount was the production company back then as well.

 

[The Wormhole]

Isn't that a part of the decay? is it so difficult to come up with stories for, let's say 20 episodes?

It has nothing to do with "can they come up with twenty stories." If it were about story ideas, Goldsman could easily provide twenty for a season of SNW as he has recently revealed they have a number of unused ideas which will likely never see the light of day now because of the show ending with an abbreviated Season 5.

Rather it's a reflection of the times. Television is general is getting shorter seasons these days, even network shows now consider eighteen episodes to be a full season. Take into consideration space opera like Star Trek isn't cheap. At the risk of invoking fire hoses and coin jar tithes, the closest to Star Trek a non-Trek show has come in the last decade is The Orville, and even that could only last a dozen episodes each season, which got scaled back in the third. And even then, they still had trouble meeting production deadlines, it's why episodes were frequently postponed in the first two seasons, with one episode from the first postponed to the second, and a factor in why the third took as long as it did, though granted the pandemic also played a part there.

Bottom line is twenty episode seasons are a thing of the past where Star Trek is concerned and are becoming a thing of the past for the rest of television in general. Besides, with Trek's twenty-six episode seasons there were typically only ten good ones anyway.