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When will we see the return of Pike’s Enterprise?
CaptPetey
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With the end of season 2 for Disco on the horizon, and the Enterprise finally showing off its beautiful bridge, can we expect it to return to the game in short order??
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Probably no later than the Pike spin-off on All Access, at the latest.
https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/04/10/star-trek-discovery-captain-pike-spinoff/
Man I read an article like that and it sounds like there are masses of fully engrossed fans loving Discovery for exactly what it is. I love Star Trek, and am happy there's finally one to watch, but there are some huge flaws getting in its way from being all it could be.
This trek is way too much space magic instead of space science, and a glaring hole in character development. I STILL don't know a bunch of the crew's role/title, and most of them have about 10 minutes of backstory. Heck one of the secondary characters they killed off only had a backstory in the same episode they killed her off in. It's like Star Trek written by someone with ADD, trying to fit it within their attention span.
I think they are targeting such audience. Someone thinks that todays viewers lose concentraction after 20 minutes. But hardcore ST fans are science savvy analysts, statisticians, philosophers, ... with concentration and memory span reaching 40 or more years back towards past shows.
EDIT: AND NO SPACE WHALES!!!
I kind of feel the opposite. This is Star Trek, modernized to hold up well against today's proven model of one hour dramas that are almost universally serialized and not episodic, and which reward viewers for attention to detail and retaining an entire season's worth of stories (or more) at all times.
A by-product of things not being all neat and tidy in 60 minute packets where everything ends in the exact same place as it began, you do get some weird ebbs and flows. Seemingly major characters may be de-emphasized, secondary characters may suddenly leap to the forefront and might even suddenly die if it serves a storyline purpose. I honestly can't think of a single show I watch that doesn't more or less follow this model.
Self-contained episodic dramas may still be viable for the 10pm CBS timeslot for easy consumption by our parents' demographic, but we're coming up on 2 decades of this being pretty much standard for the class of "prestige" dramas that started with The Sopranos and spawned everything from Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones. I, personally, approve of a Star Trek that looks and feels like the best shows on TV, and not like "NCIS: The One With The Quantum Leap Guy," though I understand if your mileage varies.
I don't know if it's something that'd make sense to CBS - like maybe they'd feel like having an Enterprise show would mean Disco would automatically become the spinoff and less valuable as a show to market - but I'd kind of love to see a Pike show where it's just alien-of-the-week stories. I don't hate what Disco does with its season arc structure - that's the thing in tv nowadays anyway - but with these half-seasons they don't have the 26 episodes to sprinkle in solo stories like DS9 did even when it was at its arc-heaviest. I really liked the Terralysium episode just because it was 'go to a planet, find a problem, puzzle out the moral implications, learn something and solve the problem', classic Trek. It'd be a really weird swerve if Disco didn't have an arc next season, but with half-seasons they really can't afford to meander around long before getting stuck into it, and I miss the meandering.
Plus that bridge, I mean they can't build that bridge and then just never use it again.
But I would also like more schematics now for his Enterprise as well. 😁
Yes I love being able to upgrade my newer ships even if I don't get them complete
Anything that also has some focus on #1