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Star Trek Discovery is ending in 2024 with Season 5

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Star Trek Discovery is ending in 2024 with Season 5

I have to admit never being a devoted Star Trek tv show junkie. I think the only series I have seen every episode of was TOS. I tend to lose my patience with a show after the 3rd or 4th season because the idea barrel is empty. The characters must be dumbed down to give us new drama. It is difficult to imagine there is anything new for Star Trek ideology or story telling to explore, at least from the Hollywood mindset. Mostly it is just recycled ideas with fresh new characters.....until they begin to stale. At least there is a lifetime of conventions to supplement the old income.

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Originally posted by mykdude:

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Star Trek Discovery is ending in 2024 with Season 5

I have to admit never being a devoted Star Trek tv show junkie. I think the only series I have seen every episode of was TOS. I tend to lose my patience with a show after the 3rd or 4th season because the idea barrel is empty. The characters must be dumbed down to give us new drama. It is difficult to imagine there is anything new for Star Trek ideology or story telling to explore, at least from the Hollywood mindset. Mostly it is just recycled ideas with fresh new characters.....until they begin to stale. At least there is a lifetime of conventions to supplement the old income.

The thing that always bothered me about Star Trek is this idea of "canon". That is probably not just limited to the world of Star Trek, other titles lean on it too, but I find it more annoying there because it is more sanctimonious than others.

"What would Gene Roddenberry think?" is a phrase that often comes up. Does this storyline, or this character, or this conclusion go against the principles that Star Trek TOS was based upon? "Where can I learn Klingon?"

I don't know and I don't care. Is it a fun TV show to watch is the right question.

I saw all of the original series in reruns years after it was cancelled, and it was alright. I started watching Voyager and Next Generation, but they didn't stick at all with me. I've caught all of the movies with original cast.

Yes, there is a Star Trek ideology, and I never had the patience to keep up with it, but it's also getting farther away as we get closer to 2265. I'm not so sure we'll make it.

Thinking about "canon," I always thought it was more about anything new having to fit chronologically and consistently characterwise. Well, with the timeline affected by the events of the 2009 movie, any Star Trek show or movie had more room to maneuver in the future. It was no longer exactly your grandparents' Star Trek. Anyway, any grumble I might have had was erased with the appearance of Leonard Nimoy in the movie. With all the change, the movie still had a strong connection to the past.

I liked the "Next Generation" as a whole. It had some good stories and I thought it was funny when the new show commented on the old show when Nimoy appeared on an episode of the Next Generation back in the 90's. Picard noted a certain "cowboy diplomacy" that was tolerated in Starfleet in Kirk's time, Kirk playing it fast and loose with the Prime Directive. I wasn't as much into "Voyager" but "Deep Space Nine" seemed to have more action than the other too.

I saw the first season of "Discovery." A friend told me it was good if I could stomach the one weird thing. A starship running on mushrooms? Give me a break. Somewhere, Douglas Adams might be laughing.

I saw the pilot for "Picard" and I do want to see those seasons. I know that it has completed its run.