The legendary Star Trek writer has the same criticism as fans about short TV seasons

As it was difficult to believe, there was a time when the weekly TV shows were 26 episodes. Every week for a nine-month-long-usually from late September to mid-June-Hollywood will dismantle the drama for one hour after one hour drama, hoping to maintain a high-quality, varied and interesting chain. Long seasons confirmed the fixed work and the fixed crew in most of the year, while fans will guarantee a large size of drama and adventure. Also, at the time, the soap opera only gained a large traction by telling the interconnected and interconnected stories. Night TV viewers were not necessarily seeing the rings in order, which has become correct in the re -broadcast and broadcasting operations. As such, each episode had to stand alone. This means that the book had to imagine 26 separate and distinctive stories every year.

This was definitely true in the “Star Trek” privilege in the 1990s. With a few exceptions, most of the “Star Trek: the Next Generation”, “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”, “Star Trek: Voyageer” and “Star Trek: Enterprise” Ran 26 episodes. At the end of its seventh season, the “next generation” accumulated 178 episodes. This is a lot.

Compare this with “Star Trek” offers today. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has only set up 30 episodes after its first three seasons. 10 episodes in each season look incredibly slight, and definitely noticed Trekkies reduction. Certainly, the stories of “strange new worlds” may still be interesting, but when the season ended in 10 weeks, the entire series feels inappropriate. At least relatively.

Braanon Braga, One of the stars book on “Star Trek” projects in the nineties The co -founder of “Enverprise”, feels the same way. It appears in the “Star Trek” agreement (Covered by TrekmovieBraga talked about the extent of the modern “Star Trek” seasons in disappointing, and comparing them with meaningless connection or short -term romantic relationships.

Braga not only thinks that TV seasons are very short; It also reduces at home a lot of time between many seasons. In fact, some seasons will be divided into two halves and then spread over a year, making the experience feel short and dismantled. “Star Trek: Prodigy”, For example, it was badly divided, as its first four episodes were operated in October and November of 2021, only for its next six episodes that decrease in January and February of 2022. Then it took eight months, and did not start again until October of 2022. Those twenty episodes, we aim to believe, the formation of the first season. As if this was not enough, the offer was later transferred (and guilt) to Netflix, with all twenty episodes of the second season in one day.

As one of the book “Voyageer” (not to mention one of the executive producers at the exhibition), Braga attended the annual STLV conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, to salute many of the remaining fans in this series. There, Braga explained that he feels that “Voyageer” had only fans because of the size of the rings. With shorter seasons, personal relationships cannot grow strongly. As it put it:

“Voyageer” was 26 episodes annually. Some of you may keep because it is comfortable, and this is the type of relationship that you have. Many offers now are Tinder relationships; eight episodes every two years?

“NCIS”, on average, had 22.1 episodes in each season (although its twenty -first season, which first appeared in 2021, was only 10 episodes).

As of the writing of these lines, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” concluded its third season, and is scheduled to return to each of the fourth and fifth seasons, each of which is likely to have another 10 -episode journey (at most). Likewise, “Star Trek: Picard” for three seasons of 10 episodes, while “Star Trek: Discovery” at least for a little longer, collected 65 episodes during five seasons (or 13 episodes per season on average). But while Braga and many Trekkies want in long seasons of “Star Trek” TVs, the broadcast era does not seem to be the idea at the present time. (Once again, there are exceptions; network crime offers are still on the ball, where “law and order” still top 22 episodes every year.)

Things are only fracture. It works without a lot of noise, however “Star Trek: Scouts”, “Star Trek: Scouts”, It is currently released in episodes … on YouTube. Not even on the “Star Trek” YouTube channel; It is just a sub -head on the “Blaze and Monster Machines” channel. The next series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will only 10 episodes of the season. It seems that the designs behind the concession are not simply in a position that allows them to show a width over nine months in a row for more than 26 episodes.

Nowadays, as Braga pointed out, the old ways to practice TV seem almost unrealistic. “It is difficult to present major television programs,” he said. “It is complicated. Then again, how did we make 26 episodes? It is like a miracle.” It is recognized that Braga may not miss the work of the work or the accidental DUD episodes that often provoke a strict TV table. However, as we all do, he lacks a long -term Forestic category.