Yes! Info here. It’s not definite but I hope it’s true. Many moons ago in one of the “What would you want the New Star Trek to be” threads on here, this was exactly what I wrote I wanted it to be. Like American Horror Story, each season a new setting and new characters. It could run forever. If true, it’s perfect.
I may actually get CBS’s stupid streaming service now.
It terrifies me to think about what the budget for a Star Trek anthology show would be like, especially after they cleaned out and sold the stuff in the prop and costume warehouse.
The whole point of the original series was that it was not an anthology but a self-contained community of regular characters with whom viewers could identify, just like Dodge City on Gunsmoke.
When you have a ship that can take you to a different planet every week, what’s the point of having a collection of unknowns in unrelated stories? Each story is unique, regardless of who’s in it.
My memory is hazy and I haven’t read the novels, but who did they kill off? I know Jadzia died before the last season and Sisko went to live with the Prophets, but I can’t think of another major character who died (well, other than Wayoun, but he was a secondary character). Really I guess I just want to catch up with Chief O’Brien.
Agreed. The point of the ship is that every episode can be a self-contained science fiction story. All you need to do is travel to a new planet, and you’ve got a blank slate for whatever situation you want to explore.
The one thing that might improve is to shake up the crew all the time. People should be changing assignment a lot more frequently, new crew should added and old crew should be transferred away. You don’t want a situation where your XO is stuck on the same ship playing 2nd banana for 8 years, that would be career suicide.