What would you like to see in the finale episode of Season 5?

[Detached Nacelle]

Explanations I would've been happy with:

It's all a dream.
It's all a bullshit story someone's telling.
A puppeteer comes to the Enterprise and puts on a puppet show.

The fact you are so closed minded to only accept it never happened as an explanation is very sad and I feel sorry for you.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

The fact you are so closed minded to only accept it never happened as an explanation is very sad and I feel sorry for you.

Is it closed minded to only enjoy food that's tasty and only laugh at jokes that are funny? I like things I like and I dislike things I dislike.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Is it closed minded to only enjoy food that's tasty and only laugh at jokes that are funny? I like things I like and I dislike things I dislike.

It is if one never tries any other food and decides they all arent tasty or never listens to any other joke and decides they all arent funny.

 

[Firebird]

Is it closed minded to only enjoy food that's tasty and only laugh at jokes that are funny? I like things I like and I dislike things I dislike.

You are pre-judging something that hasn’t even been released yet. Not remotely in the same category.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I'll admit that I'm iffy on the idea of the puppet episode, but I'm willing to hold off judgment. I was iffy on the idea of the musical and wound up loving it. I appreciate the show taking swings even if sometimes it's a swing and a miss. One has to remember that Babe Ruth struck out almost twice as many times as he hit home runs. If the show doesn't take chances, then it strangles itself in the same formulaic blandness that made the latter years of BermaTrek such slogs.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

It is way too hot for me to continue trying to explain how someone could prejudge a sequel where Jason Bourne turns into a carrot. I guess you either feel a certain way about it, or you don't.

 

[Set Harth]

The only thing I needed to know was 'does it have a good explanation'. Now that I know it doesn't, or at least that's what they've heavily implied, I know myself well enough to know that it can't possibly redeem itself for me.

It's like if they made a James Bond movie where Bond gets the ability to transform into a cat to sneak into enemy lairs. I don't have to see that movie to know I would hate it.

But what if it was a very sexy cat.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

But what if it was a very sexy cat.

It's James Bond, that goes without saying.

 

[Ssosmcin]

They changed their mind about what color looked best on Nichelle Nichols.The brought Takei back for the series. Not sure if he was even playing Sulu in WNMHGB.

Kirk called him by name in the briefing room scene.

Some actors (like Eddie Paskey) bounced from division to division depending on the needs of the script. Sometimes playinging different characters. I doubt Leslie woke in the morning and decided, "I think I'll be a med tech today." We shouldn't conflate production needs with fan rationalizations.

Hell, he was Connors in "Mudd's Women" and Spock called him "Rand" in "The Naked Time."

I love old school TV when nobody looked at this stuff with any real concern other than it being a good episode or not.

 

[Ronald Held]

S5 has 6 episodes. But are they ~50 minutes long, or longer to be the equivalent of 10 episodes?

 

[The Wormhole]

Probably fifty-ish minutes each, though I imagine the finale could be a full hour. The six episodes certainly won't equal the length of ten episodes, since the whole reason they reduced the episode count is because they have less of a budget on S5.

 

[Firebird]

Probably fifty-ish minutes each, though I imagine the finale could be a full hour. The six episodes certainly won't equal the length of ten episodes, since the whole reason they reduced the episode count is because they have less of a budget on S5.

One could dream they pulled a Columbo and made them all 75-90 minute movies and made it a stealth 10-episode run, but I doubt it. The only way I could see that being feasible from a budgetary standpoint is if the show paced shooting each episode as in the old network days - 5 days to shoot a one-hour show, or 10 for a two-parter.