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Originally Posted by Heavy As Stone
Do you think that Star Trek will ever be a major TV show again? Or has it run its course?
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In the future perhaps. I think they are just hit with genre overload at this point. Two series' running at once for over a decade did not help at all. They also had a problem balancing keeping die hard fans happy while appealing to the general public so I think they lost both for the foreseeable future. I think we will get movies every once in a while but until someone gets some inspiration we won't have a new series.
ToS flopped but was great in reruns.
TNG worked because people liked the genre and the characters.
DSN worked because it was radically different from the previous two - quite a bit darker.
VOY and ENT as much as I liked them saturated the market and began going downhill because of the attempts to get the general public to watch, mainly based on sex appeal; Kes, 7, Paris and Torres, Topal and Trip.
Personally, I wish they had done a few more Enterprise seasons, I liked that a lot and would welcome a movie.