Is there such a thing as too much worldbuilding?

[Morgan Primus]

Thinking a bit about TNG, and how the sense of wonder totally vanished from the show as it progressed, i keep wondering if focusing on some of the species like the Klingons, the Borg and the Cardassians and giving away so much information about them during TNG's later years and in DS9 was the wrong decission.

I can understand and like this fact for DS9 but for TNG, it may have been better if the producers hadn't done this so much.

My thoughts is that TNG lasted too long, with them spending too much time on the holodecks anyway.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I think we could use more world building within the UFP.

See the life of normal people, how they travel, how they shop, what do they do for fun, etc.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Nah, I'd rather see what's out there and leave Earth alone, leave the Klingons alone, leave the Borg alone, leave the Romulans alone, leave the Vulcans alone. Expanding the Universe where there's a vast new outlet to create... something DS9 did for at least 3 seasons.

 

[fireproof78]

I think we could use more world building within the UFP.

See the life of normal people, how they travel, how they shop, what do they do for fun, etc.

I wouldn't mind a day in the life of as an episode but the rest I would like to get them out on the frontier. Honestly, break the galactic barrier again.

 

[Tribble Threat]

I'd like them to build on more worlds. I think they did it best with the Cardassians and Bajorans. I'd be happy if Star Trek showed us a quarter as many planets if they fleshed out the cultures of more of them.

 

[Sci]

There's only too much worldbuilding if it gets in the way of actually telling a compelling story.