Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien developing new live-action Trek series
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I dropped out after the Aliens and Balance of Terror episodes as well.
Okay, I did eventually check out season 2 for the Lower Decks crossover, but you only have to check out the season 3 sneak peek to see that SNW isn't quite what I'm after.
The best Trek in decades?
I'm happy it's working for you.
I think it will be interesting to see how to make a Trek comedy work when it's not, like, a self-referential Trek comedy in the style of Lower Decks.
Like, how do you build the series in such a way that the "Trekness" of it is integral to it? You don't want something that is inaccessible to anyone but superfans, but at the same time, people just looking for a generic workplace comedy aren't going to be clicking on it, so making an office comedy which is just incidentally in the Star Trek universe isn't gonna work.
Like, how do you build the series in such a way that the "Trekness" of it is integral to it? You don't want something that is inaccessible to anyone but superfans, but at the same time, people just looking for a generic workplace comedy aren't going to be clicking on it, so making an office comedy which is just incidentally in the Star Trek universe isn't gonna work.
Same as you do "Wagon Train To the Stars" or the "Rifleman In Space".
They did reference The Office and Parks and Rec as templates of sorts... Carrel in Space Force wasn't half bad, so if Tawny et al are all that and a bottle of pop, could be interesting.
The first example was the first Star Trek, so I don't think it's very applicable.
As for DS9, while I'd argue that it was a successful show in its own right (and it is my favorite Trek series), the audience was, by definition only a subset of what TNG had established. It wasn't trying to grow the franchise, just provide something different.
I don't see why not. They had a SF Show based on concept pioneered by a show in a different genre.
Of course DS9 was trying to grow the franchise. Every iteration of the franchise is trying to do that
Their shows came together, if nothing else.
WGA rules.
They prohibit working for free for contracted studios (it's one reason they went on strike last summer).
Because the question I'm asking is can you make a Trek series whose primary audience will be people who don't watch other Trek series. That's not a question it even makes sense to ask during the TOS era. There was no established Trek audience.
I'd argue that DS9 was trying to grow the franchise in terms of storytelling, but not in terms of audience. TNG was a breakout hit by then, and while I'm sure they had higher hopes for ratings than what manifested, I don't think anyone would have suffered under the illusion that it would have lapped TNG. I'm sure it brought in some people just due to being the new thing (much as Voyager and Enterprise did later, for younger folks), but that was just because it happened to be the Trek on the air that someone was first exposed to.
I really don't know how many people have had their first introduction to Star Trek be the modern incarnation, due to being behind the paywall of Paramount+. Obviously there are some people who may have subscribed for some other show, and clicked on it. And there are people who will have been exposed internationally to Discovery or Picard perhaps before the other shows, but I'd have to think the numbers are a very small percentage of the total viewership.
Their shows came together, if nothing else.
Ransom got to make a comment about how hot Una was in Those Old Scientists, which is good enough.
Thinking about it further, I wouldn't be surprised if this show is being constructed in part because it will provide the framing device to allow any actors left over from DS9/VOY (or hell, PIC as well) to show up as special guest stars for an episode. After all, it's a resort planet, and people go on vacation.
So, PIC3, then?It reeks of fanfic.
A year before Picard Season 3? I don't recall Legacy being a thing then.
Pretty sure that 2 years ago, those same fans were screaming for an end to Picard.
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