# The New Star Trek series may be an Anthology! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141 "2016-04-13T23:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/41 "2016-05-19T00:37:36Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > American Horror Story has been a success with this model. … And _ **Buck Rogers** _ wasn’t. Neither was _ **Space: 1999** _ after they changed the format. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/42 "2016-05-19T00:37:43Z")
Sounds interesting. There are always certain crewmembers I don’t like, and it will be nice to not be stuck with them. OTOH, there are usually a few characters I do like, and it will suck knowing they won’t be around long. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/43 "2016-05-19T00:56:49Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Post TNG movies, or post TOS movies? > > It would suck to set it in TOS, because that’s the past. I’m sick of Trek in the past. Pretty much all of Star Trek is still in “the future,” actually. > [@Blaster\_Master](#): > > There certainly are parts of that intermediate era that would be interesting to fill in canon-wise, but really, I think that sort of defeats one of the major purposes of Star Trek. I see it as the ultimate hopeful projection of what our future can be… > I want to see new technologies arise. I want to see the future having solved problems we’re facing now, particularly with how different the social and economic environment is now to when the last shows ended. There’s plenty of parts of the galaxy that can still be explored; hell, there’s countless other galaxies that can still be explored. All of that can be done in the TOS/TNG window. The Voyager era is too removed. > [@Lemur866](#): > > DS9 and Voyager ended in 1999 and 2001, Nemesis was 2002. So make the new series set 14 years after Nemesis. That way you can bring in any actor/character from TNG/DS9/VOY and they’ll have aged correctly in real time. Wesley Crusher is now 43 years old. Picard is now 75. Riker is 63. That would probably be too much apparent aging for the Trekverse. Remember when McCoy was 137, he didn’t look a day over 100. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/44 "2016-05-19T01:50:37Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > All of that can be done in the TOS/TNG window. The Voyager era is too removed. How so? In a film, Picard speaks with Admiral Janeway. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/45 "2016-05-19T01:51:45Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Because anthology shows have had such a great track record recently… > > In other words, name a successful one in the past 20 years. _Black Mirror_. The aforementioned _American Horror Story_. Oh, and probably most on point, _Star Wars: The Clone Wars_. Seems they’ve been doing pretty okay recently, actually. > [@](#): > > Hell, the entire concept of _Quantum Leap_ was created because the producer knew that no one would watch an anthology show. Speaking of things that haven’t been on TV in twenty years, I’m not sure the design decisions made for a TV show in _1989_ are all that relevant to the current media landscape. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/46 "2016-05-19T19:21:54Z")
Apparently CBS streaming is $6/month. Which is almost as much as netflix but with a lot less content (don’t know if there will be abything besides Star Trek that I would watch). But it gets [strike]better[/strike] worse – it will also have commercials. I don’'t advocate piracy. But I understand the temptation to pirate the new Star Trek series. The people behind it (Brain Fuller, Nicholas Meyer) bode good things, but that is asking a bad price/performance ratio. If it is good, maybe I’ll get the eventual DVDs Brian ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/47 "2016-05-19T19:35:00Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > But it gets [strike]better[/strike] worse – it will also have commercials. > > I don’'t advocate piracy. But I understand the temptation to pirate the new Star Trek series. If it is worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/48 "2016-05-19T19:45:27Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How so? > In a film, Picard speaks with Admiral Janeway. Yes, but the Voyager series added a slew of improbable additional concepts to the Trekverse. Actually each series had some real stretches, but Voyager was the biggest pile of them, and for a generally weak return. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/49 "2016-05-19T20:07:15Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > The people behind it (Brain Fuller, Nicholas Meyer) bode good things, but that is asking a bad price/performance ratio. > > If it is good, maybe I’ll get the eventual DVDs > > Brian Has CBS said yet if the show will eventually be shown on the CBS broadcast network, or be otherwise available not through the streaming service? Because I’m almost certainly not going to subscribe just for this show. And while I pay a ridiculous amount for a cable subscription, I’m not going to pay for Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and CBS and Showtime and HBO and Acorn streaming services instead, even if it ends up costing less. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/50 "2016-05-19T20:11:28Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Yes, but the Voyager series added a slew of improbable additional concepts to the Trekverse. Actually each series had some real stretches, but Voyager was the biggest pile of them, and for a generally weak return. Meh, there are warp nine lizards, and there is _Spock’s Brain_. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/51 "2016-05-19T22:40:35Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Yes, but the Voyager series added a slew of improbable additional concepts to the Trekverse. Actually each series had some real stretches, but Voyager was the biggest pile of them, and for a generally weak return. Not that I remember. So we have a faster means of travel, some weapons to fight the Borg, temporal shielding, better medicine, and that’s about it. (I’d add sentient holograms, but we had Moriarty and Vic Fontaine in other series.) None of that adds anything significant to the universe. The problem I have with putting it post-VI is that there’s still so many limits due to what we know happens in TNG. Enterprise ran into the same problems. I also am not sure I can get into an anthology, since the best Star Trek worked on its characters. And I want Star Trek to get away from the gritty crap going on now, so I don’t really want characters who can die. I want optimism back. Everyone talks about this being a golden area for television, but so much is too cynical–the Internet is where the good stuff is. Not that it matters. I will not pay for it, no matter how good it is. CBS is a fucking free over the air station. And streaming online is even cheaper. I’m tired of this greedy bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141/52 "2016-05-19T23:43:02Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Apparently CBS streaming is $6/month. Which is almost as much as netflix but with a lot less content (don’t know if there will be abything besides Star Trek that I would watch). > > But it gets [strike]better[/strike] worse – it will also have commercials. > > I don’'t advocate piracy. But I understand the temptation to pirate the new Star Trek series. > > The people behind it (Brain Fuller, Nicholas Meyer) bode good things, but that is asking a bad price/performance ratio. > > If it is good, maybe I’ll get the eventual DVDs > > Brian Streaming only is begging to have it pirated. I was wondering though, how easy is it to subscribe to Netflix or other streaming service, watch a whole series, then quit the service? I had Netflix years ago before all the streaming stuff, but I eventually quit. Can’t remember how hard it was to quit. I hate monthly subscription anything. > [@Peremensoe](#): > > Yes, but the Voyager series added a slew of improbable additional concepts to the Trekverse. Actually each series had some real stretches, but Voyager was the biggest pile of them, and for a generally weak return. A female captain and Borgs with boobs? Star Trek does have a problem with technology creep. We have better shields, they get better weapons, so we get even better shields… they should stick with what they’ve got and tell good stories, and let the cool high technology mostly be scenery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-star-trek-series-may-be-an-anthology/752141.md?page=2)