Let’s be silly: predict the number of seasons Discovery runs; come back later to see if you're right

[Danja]

Perhaps! Though with everything else at ten per season over there, including Trek (Prodigy gets 20, but layered like 10x2, ha) I figured that has more to do with Paramount having total control to conform to the rest now that the show has been "freed" from Netflix influence.

I'm still going with seven.
Since PIC's ending after three seasons, and PIC's third season will come out the same year as DSC's fifth. 2023. I don't think they want to have to replace two shows during the same year.

Strange New Worlds is just getting started. They have Lower Decks and Prodigy in the wings.

P+ is not hurting for shows.

I've actually been entertaining the potential notion of Picard's third and final season airing from around November 2022 to January 2023, by the way. Filming has already wrapped, so it's way, way ahead of Disco Five.

I'm going to push it back to early 2023 (post-production takes MONTHS to finish).

 

[Lord Garth]

Strange New Worlds is just getting started. They have Lower Decks and Prodigy in the wings.

P+ is not hurting for shows.

They're not, but they want to pad out the year, meaning they have to have five if their goal is to have Star Trek shows all year round.

 

[Danja]

They're not, but they want to pad out the year, meaning they have to have five if their goal is to have Star Trek shows all year round.

We've had shows overlapping (Perhaps ANOTHER reason to cut it back to ten?)

Disco and Picard were stepping on each other's toes.

 

[Lord Garth]

I think they want three live-action series and two animated series, 10 episodes each. 50 weeks. If they're really smart, they'd have two Streaming Trek Movies every year (kind of like how Doctor Who has specials every year), bringing it up to 52 weeks.

 

[arch101]

I’m betting the full seven and I’d bet they’ve loosely planned the next 3 seasons out to get to the end.

 

[shapeshifter]

The producers have said this time-frame has opened multitudes of story ideas, so I am going with more than 7.

 

[Danja]

The producers have said this time-frame has opened multitudes of story ideas, so I am going with more than 7.

Is it necessary or even economically viable?

Pre-streaming, seven seasons was necessary to get enough eps for five-days-a-week syndication.

Now, it's no longer needed. Doing something just for the sake of tradition is foolish.

 

[Quinton]

Yeah, I get the sentiment and I'd love to believe it somehow persists as an important aspect of their metric here, but it feels a tad pie-in-the-sky to take those words at absolute value.

That said! I do think it's cool that they've even been said in the first place. It shows a willingness to continue longer than I predict (and that much longer than Danja predicts, haha) in the face of very strong financial scenarios.

 

[shapeshifter]

Pre-streaming, seven seasons was necessary to get enough eps for five-days-a-week syndication.

Now, it's no longer needed. Doing something just for the sake of tradition is foolish.

Exactly. This is not Network TV.

 

[Don Drutherford]

...One? (..It SHOULD of been only one.)

 

[Lord Garth]

I think a show should go as long as there's story for it. DSC is finally now at a point where its own timeframe is developed. Stopping now would be silly. Let them get some mileage out of the 32nd Century.

 

[Danja]

I think a show should go as long as there's story for it. DSC is finally now at a point where its own timeframe is developed. Stopping now would be silly. Let them get some mileage out of the 32nd Century.

How long before going "beyond the Galactic Barrier" morphs into warmed-over Voyager?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

8 seasons and a finale cross over with Manifest haha the plane vanished because of Burnham

 

[Lord Garth]

How long before going "beyond the Galactic Barrier" morphs into warmed-over Voyager?

Don't know. I said explore the 32nd Century not "explore beyond the Galaxy". One doesn't necessarily mean the other. I think this is an area where we'll have to agree to disagree.

 

[The Wormhole]

I personally think five, mainly because a lot of shows these days voluntarily pull the plug after their fifth season.

So as it turns out, I was right.

 

[Amaris]

I think perhaps 5 seasons, which would be solid for a streaming series, I'd say. Between Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Section 31, and the coming Captain Pike series, I think they'll pull the oldest series and let the others play out. Maybe. I don't know for sure, but I think 5 seasons would be good.

Me too!

 

[Quinton]

I voted six. Happy to admit I was off. Congrats to the winners. I totally forgot I'm the one who made this thread!

 

[The Wormhole]

A thought occurs. Since the show premiered in 2017 and will be ending in 2024, it will technically run seven years.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Cookies for everyone who said DSC would go 5 seasons!

 

[Stevil2001]

Yeah, five is my guess.

Looks like I get a cookie, then.

Five was the plurality answer.