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  • Anyone else bothered by yet another prequel? Enterprise, Kelvin films, Discovery (s1-2), strange new worlds … there’s clearly a hesitancy to do something new right?

    • I'm OK with more prequels if it means letting Terry Matalas continue handling the post-TNG timeline.

      • I’m with you.

        The fun thing about the Matalas post-TNG/legacy thing for me is that it nicely straddles the line between being new and nostalgic. Seven would be captain and a whole bunch of other stuff too would be new, but still connected to the TNG era past.

    • It doesn't bother me at all, because I don't think a fictional universe needs to have a "default" setting.

      • Aren’t prequels the default setting? What trek have we had since voyager that didn’t have a Spock or Soong in it?

        • Lower Decks, Prodigy, Picard, late-period Discovery...is that enough? Should I continue?

          • is that enough? Should I continue?

            There are more?

            But to dig into this ...

            • Separating late-period from early period Discovery doesn't really work. As much as I like the time jump, it's pretty much the same show, and Burhnam is still Spock's sister.
            • Picard is still a relatively hard se-quel, which resonates with the essence of my argument ... plus it had a Soong. I'm not sure you can describe S3 as any less nostalgia baiting or digging into established IP than any prequel. Not sure Picard, especially S3, is a convincing example of "Star Trek doesn't have a default setting".

            Which leaves Lower Decks and Prodigy ... which are by my reckoning the two relatively universally appreciated Trek projects since Voyager (at least amongst those that have watched them) ... which I would claim is not a coincidence (not that we all have to like the same things).

            They're both animated too which I feel exemplifies the risk-aversion modern Trek production has to "new" projects/characters etc.

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