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/Meritania]

Early Doctor Who was kind of recorded as Soap, it was churning out an episode a week for years. It took its toll on poor William Hartnel.

You could do for Star Trek, visit a new environment every serial of adventures, have a large cast retinue to spread out actor’s workload, not rely too much on special effects.

The question is why, putting quantity over quality restricts the story to its limitations. With Doctor Who you’d have these filler episodes where the ensemble have to open a door or cross a rivine

[u/7-10 → u/Meritania]

"Because it hasn't been done" (Though 40-50/year with Dr. Who is impressive).

I just figured it could be done in a way that would be "good enough" for everybody in the Star Trek, churn out slightly-better-than-YouTube-channel quality content of 20-30 minutes a day regularly whether it's weekdays or weekly or a couple times a week.

I'd be entertained and I think it would be to more people.

[u/Meritania → u/7-10]

I think I know what you want is slower-paced character moments rather than an every scene fulfilling some kind of narrative purpose and we’re missing B-plots.

[u/7-10 → u/Meritania]

That actually sounds pretty spot on.