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StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m feeling the same way.

This is the most coherently plotted live action Trek of the current era. The showrunners and writers room knew what they wanted and laid down all the pieces to get there.

I’m going to say that while Anisha’s punch of Brakka’s (as they say in comics) most punchable face seemed logical and a necessary catharsis, I don’t like that Ake stooped to that herself, however understandable the motivation.

I still feel, based on how much difference an extra two episodes per season makes to a low budget show like The Ark, that SFA would be stronger and better able to serve its large cast with 12 episode seasons.

I hope we get more on SAM’s development and integration of her two memories in season two.

Likewise, there definitely feels that there’s unfinished business between Anisha and Ake. I am going with Anisha being resigned to accept who her son has become but unsure of her own future.

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thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My 1st thought when Ake punched him was - that’s illegal, he’s in Starfleet custody.

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showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
_I still feel, based on how much difference an extra two episodes per season makes to a low budget show like The Ark, that SFA would be stronger and better able to serve its large cast with 12 episode seasons.

I hope we get more on SAM’s development and integration of her two memories in season two._

I’ve always been against the modern short season system. SFA is a classic example in my mind. SFA really needed another couple of episodes to breathe. I’d have been quite happy to have a few less SFX heavy episodes to have just more episodes.

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- StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I always thought that the insistence on every Paramount+ show having 10 episode seasons — which was mandated by the executives in charge of streaming when the ViacomCBS merger happened — was weird.
  
  Other streamers are not that rigid and vary season structures depending on what the show is. While 12 episode seasons are rare, I can’t see the streamer that merges HBO Max and Paramount+ being quite so rigid.
  
  The newly merged conglomerate has a myriad of practical decisions to make in merging Paramount and WBDiscovery. It will take time for all of the parameters of their streaming model to be fully established and implemented but we can expect some significant rethinking.
  
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  - showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I didn’t know that the 10 episodes limit was a Paramount rule, really I miss the 22 episodes season. That length forces the showrunners to work harder. Some the best TNG episodes are bottle episodes or limited cast episodes. Lock everyone in a room and you might get another ‘Measure of a Man’ or if whole cast is run down and shooting catch up scenes focus on the bit players and you can get another ‘Lower Decks’ (the episode not the series). If there were only 13 episodes a season on TNG there wouldn’t have been time enough to grow Gordie as a character or create O’Brian or … the list is too long.
    
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    StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    We will never see 26 episode seasons again.
    
    It currently takes more than one week to shoot a 42 minute episode.
    
    Also, actors are not willing to lock into shows that leave them unavailable for movies or other television shows.
    
    Star Trek and other streaming series are able to cast A-listers not just because they are willing to pay high pay rates and list them as executive producers but also because the A-listers are able to lock in multi season contracts with Star Trek while still being available to do other things.
    
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bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Anisha won’t be in season 2 so maybe in season 3.

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