Chris Snellgrove | Posted
Star Trek’s cancellation is fitting, as Star Trek fans have always enjoyed the franchise’s technology-based socialist utopia. lower deck Capitalism’s biggest lie has been exposed. If you build it, they will come. In other words, we spend our whole lives being told that success is just a matter of showing off your talents and accomplishing great things. If you are a Star Trek fan, lower deck It was a near-perfect show, but its cancellation revealed two bitter truths. Good doesn’t mean profitable, and modern trekkers have no idea what they want.
Do fans want Star Trek: Lower Decks?
Paramount was understandably loathe to discuss the numbers that motivated it to cancel the Star Trek show prematurely. find and lower deckBoth unexpectedly had to make their fifth season their final season. Key assumptions about lower deck Despite it being much cheaper to produce than the same show. strange new worldIt didn’t get enough views or drive enough new subscribers to Paramount+. And while Paramount’s mishandling of the NuTrek territory is partly to blame, I can’t help but think that fellow fans don’t know what they really want from this franchise.
Star Trek characters like Michael Burnham love fairy tales like this: Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandSo I think it’s only suitable for viewing lower deck In terms of another children’s fable: Goldilocks and the three bears. while find Although it ended strong, it initially disappointed new fans by focusing too much on old lore, disrupting established canons on everything from the Klingons to Spock’s tangled family tree. Simply put, early find I fell because I was trying to concentrate too much. familiar Characters and events rather than trying something new.
By comparison, picard There was the opposite problem. Patrick Stewart himself reportedly wanted the show to avoid too many connections. next generationThis is just one of the reasons why the first two seasons were such a mess. Only after the initial season failed did Paramount and Stewart give fans what they wanted, turning Season 3 into a TNG reunion. But before the murderous final season begins, picard‘s biggest failure was constantly trying to do something completely. new Instead of focusing on what made the titular character so great in the first place.
The next major Star Trek series are: lower deckAnd they’ve found the Goldilocks balance fans crave. Each season has been filled with fun callbacks to beloved characters, from Q to Harry Kim, and the show has always had some great Easter eggs that older fans can appreciate. animated series personality). At the same time, the show introduced surprising new characters like Boimler and Mariner. lower deckLike Goldilocks’ preferred bed, the ability to focus on both old and new things at the same time is “just right.”
so much potential
Another thing the show “just got right” was finding the sweet spot between delivering silly comedy and creating killer canon. Each episode of lower deck Although it delivered lighthearted laughs, the show was never afraid to change up canon in a big way (I especially loved the return of Nick Locarno). And the series finale ended with Starfleet having a stable wormhole into the multiverse. This is an open invitation to future Trek writers to absolutely go for it. wild It has all that exciting narrative potential.
As a Star Trek fan who fell in love with the franchise during TNG’s original run, “potential” is the word I most associate with it. lower deck. The show lived up to its full potential, and then some, combining a gripping story and rambling comedy that pushed the boundaries of this franchise. Honestly, if Star Trek is about infinite variety in infinite combinations; lower deck Being the only NuTrek show, it deserves a permanent spot on Stovokor (sorry). strange new world) fully embraces this Vulcan ideal.
Unfortunately, the show’s early cancellation means the fandom either doesn’t appreciate the best that NuTrek has to offer, or worse, has no idea what they actually want from this venerable franchise. Star Wars understandably takes heat for failing to deliver what fans want, but the general assumption is that Disney executives (for whatever reason) are trying to avoid a proven, fan-favorite formula in favor of pushing optimized content for their brand’s action figures. It means that you are ignoring it. Our neck.
But Star Trek is now in a much worse position than it would have been in a world where no one knows what they want from this franchise and fans are in denial. lower deck This is where the franchise was destined to die a slow death. With any luck, Paramount will bring back Mike McMahan’s pioneering show in some form to get our favorite sci-fi universe back on track. Otherwise, the phrase “Star Trek Into Darkness” doesn’t simply describe the worst film in the franchise. It will also explain exactly how Gene Roddenberry’s world came to an end at the hands of careless executives who were unable to stop the failure of their fandom.
