The face of the franchise is whatever show is being promoted for the 10 or so weeks said show is being run, including the run-up to the start of that 10-week run.
The Face Of The Franchise
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While I think Strange New Worlds is a brighter, more colorful series compared to Discovery and Picard, and that can be outwardly inviting to some, I don't see it as necessarily appealing more to general audiences than those series. I do think the episodic storytelling for Strange New Worlds does makes it easier to pick up and follow, however, today's audiences, particularly streaming audiences, are used to the kind of intricate storytelling in Picard and Discovery. It's just arguably neither series developed the greatest stories to expand their audiences and become watercooler kind of series. As for Strange New Worlds, it's more inside baseball than Picard or Discovery started out. Discovery largely had an all-new cast, with new takes on the Klingons, Starfleet uniforms, and ships, that didn't necessitate really seeing any Trek before it. And Picard largely went out of its way to reduce ties to TNG, announcing ahead of its premiere that it wasn't TNG 2.0, and there were barely any other TNG characters in the first season.
If anything, with the wider audience knowledge of Jean-Luc Picard, that series had the best chance of appealing to a wider audience than one led by Pike, who had appeared only in an unaired pilot episode (for about 20 years anyway), a TOS two-parter, and two Kelvin movies. Filling in the blanks with him, Number One, and a younger Spock was very much geared toward Trek fans, some who had been curious about them for decades. But I imagine the mass audience could care less about solving those mysteries.
If anything, with the wider audience knowledge of Jean-Luc Picard, that series had the best chance of appealing to a wider audience than one led by Pike, who had appeared only in an unaired pilot episode (for about 20 years anyway), a TOS two-parter, and two Kelvin movies. Filling in the blanks with him, Number One, and a younger Spock was very much geared toward Trek fans, some who had been curious about them for decades. But I imagine the mass audience could care less about solving those mysteries.
The mass audience wants entertainment. Deliver that first.
When TNG started, it was with a completely new crew and a completely new ship. Burton was the only cast member anyone had ever heard of. It was pulling-in 9 million within a year as a syndicated show.
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I think I might argue the exact opposite. Next Generation went off the air nearly 30 years ago, bringing back a well established character played by the same actor makes people think they may need to watch seven seasons of an ancient show to know what’s happening. With Pike (or Kirk) folks know it is more likely to be something totally new and easier to jump into.
Why would they know that? Strange New Worlds is a spinoff of Discovery, so you could argue that some might feel that they need to see Discovery Season 2 and Short Treks before looking at the series, if not "The Cage" and "Menagerie" episodes, with TOS pushing sixty. Star Trek: Picard, to its detriment, was explicit about not being a sequel to TNG, and discouraging people from expecting that, until nostalgia won out (especially in the third season).
It's also drunk, apparently.
Sequel to Discovery, Prequel to TOS.
Come on. "No One" is you (and other "you's") Lots of people (like me) LOVED the ship Discovery. It was gorgeous. The spore drive was a fascinating concept and the special effects were so fun. Enterprise D was a cozy ship for families, and I loved that too. But then I appreciate and enjoy a variety of different toppings on my Star Trek.
The Discovery is fugly in my opinion. A triangle? Yuck. That design was rejected before TOS was even filmed. There is a reason it was rejected. It's odd looking. It's the Edsel of starship designs.
Who cares? All ships are fugly since the Constitution and its refit, with few exceptions.
The interiors of the Discovery I love though.
And ships attractiveness as zero bearing on a show.
The interiors of the Discovery I love though.
And ships attractiveness as zero bearing on a show.
It wasn't for TOS.
The McQuarrie design? I thought that was preTMP not TOS.
Very Warsy.
Some interesting preTOS designs here
The McQuarrie design? I thought that was preTMP not TOS.
Very Warsy.
Some interesting preTOS designs here
So ugly.
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