I would argue the rise of cinema style tv is why Trek movies have largely become irrelevant (and maybe to some extent other sci-fi franchises like Star Wars that have tv output along with movie output). In the older days, movie budget could achieve sci-fi special effects that you wouldn't find on the sci-fi tv show. Now with the rise of cheaper CGI, we have top level special effects in the tv shows and what made sci-fi movies special has now become commonplace, turning the movies into basically a 2 hour episode of said franchise tv shows. I don't expect Mandalorian and Grogu next year to be much different.
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You can't go back to that. Look at what SNW, Andor and other SW shows and shows like Stranger Things have done. The level of TV SFX is so high right now, if they go back to TNG level for nostalgia reasons and keep a bit more budget, the modern crowd will walk away because of the high standard they are now used to.
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There's a middle road where you can get excellent production values and VFX and still get more than 10 eps a season without breaking the bank.
The priority should be, IMO, maximizing the number of episodes per season.
Oh dear no. The priority are good stories, not how many. Quality over quantity.
It's like I always say, look back at the various 90s Trek shows, with 26 episodes a season, there were usually only about 10 good ones anyway. Or, there's the Futurama joke about TOS, 79 episodes, about 30 good ones. Which also works itself out to 10 good episodes a season. Though in the case of season 3, that might be being generous... 
I've always maintained that so long as the Futurama average is maintained I'm ok with Trek.
Not just Trek and Sci- Fi. Tv in general. Except for the bigger screen you can basically get movie quality product in tv shows these days. This isn't the days were your chosen to not watch "GoodFellas" instead of staying home to watch "Evening Shade."
Theoretically its possible, if the seasons are split into two 10-episode parts.
But then we’d get 3 seasons instead of 5.
imagine if the seasons were like the old days when episodes on most shows were at least 21 or 22 episodes even sometimes 23 episodes
althought before the standard between 21 and 23 episodes per season era the tv shows before that era used to be between 30 and 40 episodes per seasons
That would be terrible.
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