They only gave it a shortened fifth season (six episodes -- just enough to tie up loose plot threads).
Strange New Worlds' showrunners advise fans to write to Skydance and Paramount if they're interested in a "Year One" Kirk sequel series
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They only gave it a shortened fifth season (six episodes -- just enough to tie up loose plot threads).
My point is, they wouldn't have done even that much if they were really displeased with the direction of the show. Hell, if they were really against the direction the show was taking, they'd pull a Zaslav and shelve the show for a tax write-off.
How about a series with Pike as captain, and new characters from his tenure as captain of the Enterprise?
Okay, sarcasm aside . . . .
I have to say that after S3 of SNW, a Year one series is about the LAST place I want to see Trek go next. Just give us a 25th Century, post-TNG series with all new characters and no callbacks to TNG/DS9/VOY. Let the past be in the past and move it on forward. Set it about 2450 or so, a good 90 years post TNG. 16 Episode seasons, and without musicals, animated crossovers, muppets, and so on.
Okay, sarcasm aside . . . .
I have to say that after S3 of SNW, a Year one series is about the LAST place I want to see Trek go next. Just give us a 25th Century, post-TNG series with all new characters and no callbacks to TNG/DS9/VOY. Let the past be in the past and move it on forward. Set it about 2450 or so, a good 90 years post TNG. 16 Episode seasons, and without musicals, animated crossovers, muppets, and so on.
I could buy the animated crossover far more than the musical and Muppet episodes.
The studio was prepared to either A) not do anything, or B) give them a final two-hour movie.
If Paramount were really displeased about SNW, a six-episode pickup would've been unheard of. You might have issues with the musical and Muppet episodes, but clearly the folks in charge at Paramount don't.
James Swallow wrote "One" for Voyager.
Which, in retrospect, was a whole lot more darkly believable than pretty much any other season of Trek. (Didn’t say it was my favorite, but I definitely found it easier to “buy” than the picture we usually get.)
No.
You're entirely wrong.
You don't like the direction it's headed. That's a different thing.
It's in the top section of my list of the greatest of all Star Trek episodes. That list fluctuates some, but basically it means that, with respect to each series, "Subspace Rhapsody" is better than most episodes, and then some or quite a bit more.
Could it have been better? Well, could "The Doomsday Machine" or "The City on the Edge of Forever," which are consistently at the top of my list, have been improved in any way? Yes, to all three. Perfection is not required to rank with the best; not even the very best are perfect.
There were several outstanding musical numbers. My top three favorites were: "I'm Ready," "I'm the X" (this number is a profound achievement), and "Keep Us Connected."
I don't believe "Subspace Rhapsody" is even the very best SNW episode. But at least we've gotten this, and it has forever made Star Trek, which I've loved for over 50 years, even better.
TL;DR - Yes, please. More! Push those boundaries!
Sure, and a number of other Trek novelists like David Mack and Michael Jan Friedman have the odd TV episode credit here and there. But I was talking about authors who've had ongoing, successful careers in both prose and screen, so I didn't count people who have only one or two credits outside their main medium.
No Year One, they're going to write themselves into a canonical and timeline corner. They should call it Star Trek: Five Year Mission and cover the 2nd five year mission that would've taken place after TMP as speculated on in the Star Trek Encyclopedia and what Phase II would've covered before it got turned into a movie.
Basically the way SNW used the Cage as its pilot for the original proposed Pike show, this show should use TMP as its pilot for the original proposed Phase II show.
Basically the way SNW used the Cage as its pilot for the original proposed Pike show, this show should use TMP as its pilot for the original proposed Phase II show.
