SNW Season 5 In Development

[David cgc]

But happens if they want to do a 4th or 5th season? Are they going to flash forwards to the TMP era?

I've got my fingers crossed for the latter. I've always wanted a movie-era series, it's my sentimental favorite period of Trek. Just in the last few days this fan-animation of a movie-era version of SNW had been circulating, and it honestly looks exactly like how I'd expect them to do it (though I rather they made only the most subtle alterations to the TMP design, if any).

 

[Nerys Myk]

I do like prequels if done well. I just don't like the current Star Trek prequels all that much. I did enjoy Enterprise for the most part though.

That’s my point. You've shifted from no more prequels. To prequels are okay if you like them

 

[Nerys Myk]

Actors are more important than setting.
Story is more important than actors.
Eating food is more important than story.
Drinking water is more important than eating food.
Breathing air is more important than drinking water.

Wait, why am I wasting time eating food? I shouldn't have been caring about that at all!

That was a weird shift.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

That was a weird shift.

Thank you.

You get what I'm saying though. I keep seing people making the argument that X is the most important thing, or Y. It's all about the CHARACTERS! The important thing is the WRITING! The only thing that matters is PIKE'S HAIR! There are still plenty of other important things though, even if they're not all important to everyone. Organising things in order of priority is fine, but you still have to get around to the things further down the list.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Thank you.

You get what I'm saying though. I keep seing people making the argument that X is the most important thing, or Y. It's all about the CHARACTERS! The important thing is the WRITING! The only thing that matters is PIKE'S HAIR! There are still plenty of other important things though, even if they're not all important to everyone. Organising things in order of priority is fine, but you still have to get around to the things further down the list.

Still a weird shift from things in a TV program to food and drink in the real world.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Still a weird shift from things in a TV program to food and drink in the real world.

I will own the weirdness of my shift.

 

[Dar70]

That’s my point. You've shifted from no more prequels. To prequels are okay if you like them

For Star Trek and Star Wars I would prefer no more prequels. They both have done them way too much. Doesn't mean I hate all of them. Star wars are just plain better though. I almost like all of it except I wasn't too crazy about the Acolyte. Sw prequels fit much better with their older material than Treks does.

I'm not saying I don't ever want prequels of anything. But I wish that SW and ST would move forward now.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I think part of the reason Star Wars has done so much better with its prequels than Star Trek generally does is because they choose moments in the established history people are interested in and explore them. Bad Batch shows the switch over from Republic to Empire, Andor and Rebels are about the birth of the Rebel Alliance, Clone Wars tells the story of the Clone Wars.

Star Trek, on the other hand, isn't interested in telling the story of something we know about. Enterprise was getting there at the end, right before it got cancelled, but generally they're only set in the past because they want to use the most iconic characters.

Though Star Trek is better equipped to tell sequels, as it's all about putting a team in a space ship and seeing what's out there. It's not stuck in cycles of evil empires and rebellion, it doesn't have a mythic Skywalker Saga at its core, they can just say "It's 2415, The USS Spaceship is being sent out to see what's in the Beta Quadrant on a joint mission with the Romulan Free State" or whatever, and go have space fun with occasional political drama that pushes the story of the Alpha Quadrant races forward.

 

[fireproof78]

Star wars is bad at prequels. I wouldn't use them as an example of anything for Trek to follow.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Star wars is bad at prequels. I wouldn't use them as an example of anything for Trek to follow.

Citation needed.

But fine, if you really feel that we need a sequel series that follows on from Picard I'm not going to argue!

 

[fireproof78]

Citation needed.

But fine, if you really feel that we need a sequel series that follows on from Picard I'm not going to argue!

Citation needed for an opinion?

Never mind how completely castigated the Prequel Trilogy was at release and how poorly it took the characters, but it isn't a good example. It doesn't fill in gaps but adds strange questions that do not mesh well with the OT.

ROGUE ONE inserts characters in that were supposed to care about yet feel very distant from A New Hope.

It looks nice. The characters though? Oof.

In my humble opinion

 

[Tuskin38]

I liked the prequels when they came out (I was 8-14 over that time span), I do not like them now.
I'd personally place all three below every other movie except Episode 9.