That does seem to be a popular solution to many movie studios. My money is they will soon reboot TNG. I feel like it's a idea they are just waiting for the right time to do.
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That does seem to be a popular solution to many movie studios. My money is they will soon reboot TNG. I feel like it's a idea they are just waiting for the right time to do.
As to why shows don't run as long, it's just the new standard of the streaming platforms. The old syndication model was about "stripping" a show to run five days a week, so the magic number was >100 episodes. The built-in cost increases inherent in a long-running show tend to lower the profit margins the longer a show goes, so unless it's a mega-hit that could pull in top ad revenue on a network, there's a point at which making new episodes just doesn't help the bottom line. Streaming is a different model that, apparently, doesn't require six seasons of 24 episodes.
It's always about money.
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Neither TNG nor DS9 did this: one young person each, neither particularly sexy nor stylish.
Geordi. Yar. Troi. All young and sexy
Dax. Bashir. Even Kira. All young and sexy
No, not really. They all played older, with the exception of Siddig. They were far from their teenage years in their performances.
Did they? I don't recall them ever saying the characters were older than the actor.
No idea what the second sentence even means. Some younger actors can act rings around older ones.
I will say this: on his web show, Dominic Keating said that studio executives and Berman told him that they did have youth and sex appeal that would lead to Enterprise replacing TNG in the movies (unlike DS9 and Voyager). It was very clear they were going after an audience.
Well. yeah.
I'm waiting on the Trek not going for an audience.
Any explanation also has to account for the Disco Mirror Universe also having Disco Klingons.
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In the mirror universe the Augment Virus was no accident.
They all start that way…
As with the same people on a ship called the Enterprise and the acid stain on McCoy’s desk, it happened there too, for different reasons. (Since remember, the MU isn’t a divergent timeline, it’s a weirdly parallel dimension where a lot of the same things happen, darkly reflected.). And in both, the Augment virus screwed up a lot of Klingon genelines, which went off in multiple “deformed” directions throughout the Empire. (Good chance that in the MU, the Terrans dumped it on the Klingons on purpose, hoping it would genocide them, but no such “luck”.) About 120 years later, House Mo’kai finally figures out how to fix everybody. There, solved.
A bit implausible. Even with 2025 technology either slow-release hormones or an IUD could have been put in when they had their first date and still been working when Ben joins the prophets.
More like "surprise" babies are seen as an interesting plot device. Alexander, too. What are the odds on a medium-sized space station?
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