A key figure behind Star Trek's classic era has likened the shortened seasons of modern TV to the equivalent of a Tinder relationship, and said he hoped the sci-fi franchise would return to 22-episode seasons.
I would argue that it was a good show even without all of that but the nostalgia made it more fun for sure. LD had great writers who told interesting stories. And, it could go from strange and campy to highbrow and serious from one scene to the next but they were also telling stories with through lines and arcs and still providing the filler.
To be fair, I haven’t watched Discovery or much Strange New Worlds yet, so I could be off base. But, it seems like Strange New Worlds is trying to thread that needle.
Discovery is what people dint like(the klingons and thier strange appearance, cloaking tech before encoutering the ROMULANs, plus a ship that had technology that was pretty much centuries ahead of them at the time(they couldnt even tie it in that good when they WENT into the future to escape an AI(which was actually to escape the klingons discontinuity by Kurtzman), Picard was also pretty bad, it suffered the same end of season problems that STD, just dropped or the “big bad” was a bad storyline.
I would argue that it was a good show even without all of that but the nostalgia made it more fun for sure. LD had great writers who told interesting stories. And, it could go from strange and campy to highbrow and serious from one scene to the next but they were also telling stories with through lines and arcs and still providing the filler.
To be fair, I haven’t watched Discovery or much Strange New Worlds yet, so I could be off base. But, it seems like Strange New Worlds is trying to thread that needle.
Discovery is what people dint like(the klingons and thier strange appearance, cloaking tech before encoutering the ROMULANs, plus a ship that had technology that was pretty much centuries ahead of them at the time(they couldnt even tie it in that good when they WENT into the future to escape an AI(which was actually to escape the klingons discontinuity by Kurtzman), Picard was also pretty bad, it suffered the same end of season problems that STD, just dropped or the “big bad” was a bad storyline.