The Next Star Trek Show Must Be All Star Trek

By Chris Snellgrove
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While Star Trek: Discovery ended up being a relatively divisive show in the fandom, creator Bryan Fuller originally wanted it to be an anthology show that would serve as the ultimate love letter to fans. He planned each season to be a different story set in a different time period, making this the equivalent of science fiction shows like American Horror Story. The idea of ​​the greatest importance was passed, but now that Find out is being made and Star Trek is at a creative crossroads, the time has come to make this anthology show a reality.

The Hit TV Series Star Trek Needs

What would make such a series popular, especially for fans who are disappointed that we don’t get Star Trek: Legacy show? For one thing, the anthology format means we’d get a fresh crop of new characters and actors every season. Fans who hated the main characters of any given season (for example, the cool but controversial Starfleet girl Michael Burnham) could look forward to whatever the following season brings instead of just tuning out of the show entirely completely

In addition, s Star Trek anthology series would solve the ongoing problem of different fans wanting shows set in different time periods. Not all fans want a similar prequel Brave New Worlds (regardless of how good the show is), just as not all fans want a show set many centuries in the future (like Find out after season 2). Meanwhile, the third season of Picard was a huge success specifically because it was set in the near future The Next Generationallowing us to see what our favorite characters have been up to.

Doing The Impossible: Pleasing All Kinds of Travel

In this case, a Star Trek anthology show could do the impossible – namely, please almost all of the fans – just by setting each season in a different time period. That’s what Bryan Fuller originally wanted to do with it Find out: his concept was to start as a TOS prequel, then focus on the TOS era, then focus on the TNG era, and eventually move into a distant future that audiences have never seen before. A new anthology show wouldn’t necessarily have to go in such a chronological order, but its format could still make a fractured fandom happy by giving them a brand new show every season.

Also, now that Star Trek bigwigs have confirmed that we won’t be getting a Inheritance show, an anthology series is our only way to follow up on beloved characters like Riker, Dr. Crusher, Seven of Nineand so on. They could pop up for an episode or even an entire season set shortly after the Picard period; for that matter, other seasons could follow up on nonPicard characters. World Health Organization he wouldn’t want a season focused on Admiral Archer or Admiral Janeway? The actors behind these fan favorite characters would be much more likely to return to this franchise if they didn’t have to sign multi-year contracts for seven seasons.

I am a Star Trek fan who has enjoyed much of the NuTrek era. Discovery and Picard were mixed bags for me, while Brave New Worlds a Lower Decks been amazing. But I worry about the future of the franchise for many reasons: Starfleet Academy is teenybopper bait built off an early canceled series, Section 31 looks like action movie schlock, and the next movie is going to be a defunct Federation origin movie. Star Trek is at a creative crossroads, and an anthology show could do for the franchise Captain Kirk he did best: turning death into a fighting chance to live.