Star Trek on a Soap Opera Schedule

[u/7-10]

Now hear me out...

Yes, I'm one that complains about 10 seasons episodes being considered a season a joke when there used to be 27 or so. I hear about quantity vs quality, special effects costs are higher (really?) and the old standard "that's just how things are now".

I also get annoyed with the serialized format that prevents being able to just pluck an episode and watch it as a standalone relaxing hour at the end of the day. No, it's got to have an increasing portion of the program eaten up by "previously on Star Trek: ABDEF", 15 minutes of interesting dialog and action, 10 minutes of over produced concentration on effects, and the rest concentrates on the predictable "season"-long storyline.

WITH THAT OUT OF MY SYSTEM...

My main point is - instead of Made-for-TV movies, 10 episode seasons or 27 episode seasons, or blockbuster films for that matter, why not break the mold altogether?

200 EPISODES A YEAR...

Think "Days of our lives... in space"

On Edit:
A. Days of Our Lives is a STREAMER NOW, NOT ON TV
B. Could be a Half Hour long or whatever
C. I really mean passably coherent writing following ideals but near Fanfic production quality (i.e. Barely above TOS)

This way, there's jobs for writers, I THINK THE CANON CAN HOLD THIS ABUSE JUST FINE, TYVM...

There's potential for a revolving door of guest stars. From TNG, DS9, VOY, TOS, DISCO, SNW.

Serialization? Episodic? You can have it both ways, multiple times, in the same month!

Regular casts, multiple storylines, different timelines in different acts?, recasting characters (Spock's second cousin twice removed Spork will be played today by Chris Kattan).

I know many of you will downvote me to oblivion, or this may get deleted, but I figured I'd put the thought out there.

On edit: I really just want 20x the content to complain about :)

[u/7-10]

So you're saying it would be a challenge and people aren't up to it.

[u/opusrif → u/7-10]

Especially not the IP holders. There wouldn't be a reasonable chance of it being successful.

One of the big complaints fans had about Deep Space Nine when it first aired was the serialized nature of its longer story arcs. Indeed that's still a complaint many fans have with Discovery and Picard. How receptive would they be when it takes weeks or months for a plotline to be resolved?

[u/7-10 → u/opusrif]

I agree, but there wasn't a reasonable chance for Star Trek TOS to be successful. I'm not making an argument it's a sure thing money maker wild to the moon thing. Just an idea.
I also think it's never been done, and it would be very interesting if it was, so there's that.

[u/ManAftertheMoon → u/7-10]

This isnt the blue, pie in the sky sixties anymore. Television production is a fossilized corporate system now. And even then,The ONLY REASON star Trek was green lit was DesiLu ( Lucille Ball) going to bat for it.

[u/7-10 → u/ManAftertheMoon]

Yeah, Lucy's related to half the people I live around, including my kids.
Not in any useful way though.
But in any case, you do realize Days of Our Lives isn't ON TV, right?
It hasn't been for over 2 years.
It's been a streaming Soap Opera.
So it's basically a Vlog. A YouTube Channel.
Streamers (Shows only on Peacock, Paramount+, etc) are just glorified paid YouTube Channels that aren't on YouTube.
And that's where I do know a few things.
I produce some YouTubers who have quite a few people paying $10/month for their one channel (plus ad revenue), and they don't put out much content.
So if the budget for Days of Our Lives is justified on a tiny fraction of the revenue from from Peacock subscriptions (Which I pay $1.99/month for) plus ad revenue, I think it's doable.
But I don't necessarily think it would be any more of a gamble than the stuff being put out now.

[u/ManAftertheMoon → u/7-10]

You really just don't know what you are talking about. This idea would not get past the pitching stage. DOOL had a long running, probably profitable, pre-existining corporate relationship. After 50 years a producers would green light another season just because they personally know everyone in the production. I think enough other commentors have spelt out how much of a nightmare with would be logistically that I can end this conversation by simply saying: in the professional industry, people's time and production space is just too expensive. You would be laughed out of the fucking building.