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

[Gingerbread Demon]

No cookie for me I said 8 seasons and it crosses over with Manifest, Burnham was the cause of the plane skipping time

 

[TRON JA307020]

No cookie for me I said 8 seasons and it crosses over with Manifest, Burnham was the cause of the plane skipping time

I said 5 but I voted today. Lol

 

[Jayson1]

I said 5 so I was correct.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I said six back in May of 2021, but I'm good with it ultimately being five. That's still a nice run these days.

 

[Quinton]

Three people have voted for season five since the cancelation announcement.

 

[Markonian]

My vote was six.
Miffed that it ain’t 7 in the end. Going out on a high note I guess.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I was going to say my choice of 6 seemed arbitrary, but it seems many others voted the same.

I'm fine with 5, I would't have wanted 7.

 

[Uhura's Song]

Bingo for me. But sad to see it end.

 

[Cyrus]

My own prediction is for five seasons. I say this for three reasons:

1. Salaries tend to rise every season a show is on the air, which makes the show less and less cost-effective to produce.
2. We know that CBS is nearing the maximum number of Trek shows it wants to simultaneously produce, and is holding back other concepts (like Section 31) until something goes off the air.
3. Perhaps most importantly, pretty soon it will no longer be clear Discovery is the flagship Trek production. For a long period of time, CBS had to be committed to the show because it wanted to revive Trek in order to get its streaming service off the ground, and everything else was years behind in terms of production. But by 2022 we'll be into Picard's second season and Strange New World's first - not to mention the animated shows. At some point one of them is going to surpass Discovery in terms of popularity, and the show could be in serious danger.

This is the winner. Not only guessed the right number of seasons but the reasoning was mostly on target too.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Seven seasons was my first guess but later changed that to six but oh well no cookie for me.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I voted five way back when. Mildly worried you might all realise I'm actually the one pulling the strings

 

[Jayson1]

I picked 5 seasons before it was cancelled. Big question for those who picked the right number. What did we win! Should I be expecting a Ferrari showing up and the driver tossing me the car keys and saying 'Congrats on your prediction skills" pretty soon.

 

[Quantum21]

Most people said 5: interesting.

 

[Lord Garth]

New Prediction: I think SNW runs for five seasons, totaling 50 episodes. Add that to TOS's 80 and you get 130 episodes or five full seasons of the old-fashioned length.

 

[Jayson1]

I give SNW 4 years. At some point it will not be bringing in new subs and I also think Anson Mount will want to move onto something else.

 

[Quinton]

Most people said 5: interesting.

For what it's worth, it was an even 30 before the news broke. Four people have since voted the obvious answer, haha.

New Prediction: I think SNW runs for five seasons, totaling 50 episodes. Add that to TOS's 80 and you get 130 episodes or five full seasons of the old-fashioned length.

Same here. In fact, maybe I should make a poll over there . . .

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

5 seasons sounds like a good number actually for any show these days.

Be interesting to see if Quantum Leap manages 5 seasons then it would be even with the original

 

[Jayson1]

Anybody predict 6 seasons and a movie?

 

[Dar70]

So we ended up getting 2.7 seasons of Discovery going by the standard 24 per season..... Enterprise is now no longer the shortest live action Trek Series. Besides Picard.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

I really thought I'd voted in this thread back at the time, but it's still giving me the option to, so obviously not. I certainly can't remember what I would have picked. I know I wouldn't have gone with seven or more, but between the other options, I can't honestly say anymore. Especially now we actually know.