Why didn't the Kurtzman era develop an interconnected story?

[FederationHistorian]

It probably did not occur to them. And if it did, then their attempt has been pretty scatterbrained. The closest they came to and interconnected story were Control and Section 31.

Ideally, the shows should have led into one another. It should have gone SNW-SFA-DIS, or SFA-SNW-DIS-S31, or even PIC-SFA-DIS.

 

[drt]

Considering the varied time periods, it most likely would have been something like "All Good Things" where each crew is working on the same time problem at different times.

The problem is then in the serialized DIS/PIC seasons there would be a random stand alone episode in the middle that had nothing to do with the serialized story, and people already complained about the pacing of those seasons' plots.

 

[Discovery McDiscoveryFace]

I think IRL it was easier in the Berman days because it was all filmed at PP in and around the same lots. Cast members could be factored in (wasn't there some suggestion that Bashir wasn't the original choice to go across to TNG and meet Data?). Were old sets and costumes stored longer rather than auctioned so they could be re-used? I for one don't want to be in the same position we in the UK will soon be with The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds where we can't get to see how a story started in the former ends in the other.

 

[Ovation]

we in the UK will soon be with The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds where we can't get to see how a story started in the former ends in the other.

Without spoiling anything, I can say it has very little effect on The Rookie (I’ve finished all seven streaming seasons).

 

[Steve Roby]

I think the MCU has used the MCU approach way too much, so I'm glad Star Trek didn't go for it.

The whole point of the wildly different shows the streaming era gave us was to try different things and maybe find new audiences, plural. They knew that we diehards would watch both Disco and Prodigy, for example, but they were trying to see if each might find its own new audience that could then discover (so to speak) more Star Trek. Crossovers and shared plot points would be exactly the opposite approach.

 

[Mage]

The way Discovery season 2 was a sort of backdoor pilot for SNW is the only rear cross over I think works for Star Trek. Or the small stuff from the Berman era; Picard in The Emissary, Quark in Caretaker and that one TNG episode, Bashir during TNG, Thomas Riker in DS9 and Will Riker in VOY. Troi and Barclay in VOY.
Small things.

Big interseries crossovers just doesn't feel like Star Trek somehow. If the TNG crew, DS9 crew and VOY crew came together in a 4 episode crossover event with the ENT crew showing up as well, and Nimoy showing up as the one that finally saved the day..... Biggest fanfiction ever. And that's funny because with alternate dimensions, timetravel and anomolies and what not, Star Trek is actually THE universe for such things to happen.

I think we're ok with it in the comics, because such things are basically at the core of them. But nah, not Stark Trek.

 

[Mudd]

Star Trek wasn't designed for interconnected stories or plot arcs.