Ground2ChairMissile t1_je5u9x0 wrote on March 29, 2023 at 5:00 PM

Reply to comment by DaveShadow in Star Trek: Legacy deserves a chance to exist by AlwaysBi

I think you just described Next Generation.

Sure, they didn't have any old characters in the main cast, but characters and concepts from TOS showed up all the time, especially in the early seasons. And characters like Data and Riker were meant to be direct analogs to Spock and Kirk.

As for Discovery's time jump...I think that was just to give Strange New Worlds some room to play around without stepping on another show's toes. The producers saw how popular those episodes with the Enterprise were and decided that the fans would like to literally jump ship, but they'd already invested so much in Discovery as the flagship show of the franchise that they couldn't drop it right away.

Lambchops_Legion t1_je63zah wrote on March 29, 2023 at 6:00 PM

> I think you just described Next Generation.

People want a Next Next Generation, the lack of it is what a lot of fans have been complaining about since the Disco launch

AmishAvenger t1_je93244 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:03 AM

Complaining about that…and the fact that Discovery is an abomination

Prax150 t1_je60qri wrote on March 29, 2023 at 5:40 PM

The end of S2 was filmed long before those episodes aired and SNW was greenlit. Maybe they thought they had something special with the Pike crew but I think it was more to just get out of that era after a lot of the criticism from S1 and do something different. Bear in mind they had changed showrunners like twice by that point too. It was a soft reboot.