by Chris Snelgrove
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Star Trek fans have always enjoyed the franchise's tech-enabled socialist utopia, so it's only fitting that it was cancelled Basement floors You have exposed the biggest lie in capitalism: If you build it, they will come. That is, we spend our lives saying that success is just a matter of showing your talent and doing a great job. For Star Trek fans, Basement floors It was an almost perfect show, but its cancellation reveals two bitter truths: being great doesn't translate into making a profit, and modern Trekkers have no idea what they want.
Do fans want Star Trek: Lower Decks?
Paramount has been understandably loathe to discuss the numbers that motivated them to prematurely cancel Star Trek shows discovery and Basement floorsboth of which were unexpectedly forced to turn their fifth seasons into final seasons. The main assumption about Basement floors Is that even though it is much cheaper to produce than similar offers Strange new worldsdidn't get enough views or attract enough new subscribers to it Paramount+. And while Paramount's mishandling of the NuTrek region is partly to blame, I can't help but think that my fellow fans don't know what they really want for this franchise.
Star Trek Characters like Michael Burnham are fond of children's stories such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandso I think it's appropriate to just watch Basement floors In terms of another kiddie tale: Goldilocks and the Three Bears. while discovery Ending strong, it initially alienated new fans by focusing so much on ancient lore that it disrupted existing canon regarding everything from Klingons to Spock's tangled family tree. Simply put, early discovery She faltered as she tried to concentrate too much familiar Characters and events rather than trying something new.
In comparison, Picard He had the opposite problem. Patrick Stewart himself reportedly wanted the show to avoid too many connections to it The next generationwhich is just one of the reasons the first two seasons were such a hot mess. Only after the failure of those previous seasons did Paramount and Stewart give fans what they wanted, turning the third season into TNG reunion. Before that killer final season, though, PicardThe biggest failure was that she kept trying to do something perfectly new Instead of focusing on what made its titular character so great in the first place.
Next specialization Star Trek series He was Lower floorsand managed to find the Goldilocks balance that fans had been craving. Each season was filled with hilarious callbacks to beloved characters from Q to Harry Kim, and the show always had great Easter eggs for older fans to appreciate (I nearly spit out my drink when I saw the giant skeleton of Spock Two, ambiguous Animation series a personality). Meanwhile, the show has introduced amazing new characters like Boimler and Mariner, proving that Basement floorslike Goldilocks' favorite bed, was “just right” in its ability to focus on something old and something new at the same time.
Lots of potential
Another thing that the show “perfectly” gets right is finding the sweet spot between delivering silly comedy and creating a killer canon. Every episode of Basement floors It delivered its share of hilarious laughs, but the show was never afraid to shake up the canon in big ways (I particularly liked the return of Nick Locarno). The series finale ended with Starfleet having a fixed wormhole to the multiverse, which is a bit of an open invitation for future Trek writers to go completely Wild With 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 Basement floors. The show lived up to all of its potential, combining divisive comedy with exciting stories that pushed the boundaries of this franchise. Honestly, if Star Trek was about infinite variety in infinite combinations, Basement floors It deserves a permanent place in Stovokor for being the only NuTrek offering (sorry, Strange new worlds) to fully embrace this Vulcan model.
Unfortunately, the show's early cancellation means that the fanbase either doesn't appreciate the best that NuTrek has to offer, or, worse yet, has no idea what they really want from this venerable franchise. It's understandable that Star Wars is criticized for failing to deliver what fans want, but the general assumption is that Disney Executives (for whatever reason) are ignoring the proven, fan-favorite formula in favor of cramming their own brand of action figure-enhanced content down our throats.
However, Star Trek is now in a much worse situation as no one seems to know what they want from the franchise, and a world where fans have rejected… Basement floors It is a place where the franchise is doomed to a slow death. With any luck, Paramount will bring back Mike McMahon's groundbreaking show in one form or another for our favorite show. Science fiction The universe is back on track. Otherwise, the phrase “Star Trek Into Darkness” simply wouldn't describe the franchise Worst movie. It will also describe exactly how the world of Gene Roddenberry dies at the hands of negligent executives who can't stop the fandom from failing.
