Cool!
I remember back in 2008 when I printed a page with the images of the crew/aliens of the novel USS Titan.
Decades later now we have the Titan-A. I wonder if there could be room for a Star Trek: Titan (Seven of Nine) spinoff series?
Of course she will survive. Season 3 is a backdoor pilot for a Seven led 25th century show. The powers that be are absolutely going to capitalise on the demand for a 25th century series set on a Federation Starship and the fact that Seven is arguably one of the most popular characters from 90's trek.
We already know that Matalas absolutely wants to write/run that show and we will likely see this show
try to operate as a backdoor pilot. He'll have enough elements there to be able to appeal to Kurtzman and whatever board he operates.
There are
two three problems I see with this.
First thing, would a Captain Seven based show be
different enough compared to the other shows we've got currently running? That is apparently Kurtzman's iron rule to try and appeal to many different fanbases.
We already have two directly ship based shows in Discovery and Strange New Worlds, one about the wacky adventures of lesser crewmen as a high jinks, high energy comedy and one about children and the joy of discovery and the dangers on the way. With Picard you have a sort of thickish veneer of a character study show but most of its plot beats have been about a rag-tag group of misfits solving Galatic Mysteries.
Each show is radically different. Would yet another Captain-on-a-ship show really be like that? Or would we have to scale down the theoretical Captain Seven show to a similar to Picard scale?
Second, would Paramount be comfortable overlapping Trek Universe shows? Right now there's a good, delicate balance of rolling shows throughout the year, would there be a risk of audience cannibalisation? Or would streaming make them more comfortable with this? We already know there's outline planning for at least two more Trek shows in the from of the Section 31 show with Michelle Yeoh which might be a compliment piece to Strange New Worlds, and the Star Trek Academy which we've speculated would be a good place for Mary Wiseman to show off her acting chops and would thus be a Discovery complimentary show.
Third, the wonderful problem of money. Each live action show is an $80-130 million question. Paramount is sinking probably the thick end of $300 million
per year into Trek shows at the moment and thats with the stuff we have running right now! Is there space in a budget for another three shows operating on similar budgets?