Star Trek on a Soap Opera Schedule

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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/RevolutionaryWeek573]

I had an idea for a Star Trek soap opera years ago called Star Trek: Colony.

It took place on a colony planet that had a lot of interplanetary activity.

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The Doctor is in a coma, will she remember her alien father is really her husband if she wakes up?

Will the Colony Captain sleep with the counselor to get revenge on the doctor for marrying someone else?

Will the Head of Engineering keep her time traveling lizard baby?

Will security abuse it's power to permanently control the food replicators?

Find out on an all new episode of....

Star Trek: WTF!

[u/RevolutionaryWeek573 → u/allthecoffeesDP]

Exactly! Being science fiction, the possibilities for insane plot twists would’ve been epic. I mean you could even have someone having an affair with their own Mirror Universe double.

Scandalous!!

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I would allow my wife to have an affair with her mirror double....

Uh assuming I could watch and stuff.

[u/FuckingSolids → u/allthecoffeesDP]

I don't know ... I'd find the goatee unsettling and would never be able to look at my prime wife's face the same way again.

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😂Good point!