No matter how difficult it is to believe, there was a time when the seasons of Sunday's television shows ran 26 episodes. Every week for a solid nine months-it is just from late September to mid-June-Hollywood will fuel the one-hour drama after an hour-long drama, hoping to retain their series of high quality, diverse and intriguing. Long seasons have assured the acting and crew intense, stable work for most of the year, while fans will be confident with a large volume of drama and adventure. Also, at that time, only daily soaps acquired dramatic traction by telling extended, interconnected stories. TV's night spectators did not have to watch episodes in order, something that became doubled in repetitions and rating. As such, each episode had to stand alone. It meant that writers had to imagine 26 separate and different stories each year.

This was certainly considered the "Star Trek" franchise in the 1990s. With a few exceptions, most seasons of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Star Trek: Enterprise" ran 26 episodes. At the end of his seventh season, the "next generation" calculated 178 episodes. That's a lot.

Compare that with today's "Star Trek" plays. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" outlined only 30 episodes after the first three seasons. 10 episodes per season seems incredibly small, and the trays have certainly noticed the decline. Of course, the stories of "weird new worlds" can still be interesting, but when the season disappears in 10 weeks, it makes the whole series feel non -essential. At least relative.

Brannon Braga, One of the Star Trek Starwelles writers in the 1990s And the co-creator of the company feels the same way. Appearing at the Star Trek Convention (Covered by trumps.

Braga doesn't just think that television seasons are too short; He also spoils at home a lot of time has spent many seasons. Indeed, some seasons will be divided into two halves and then spreading more than a year, making the experience short and separated. Now the canceled animated series "Star Trek: Prodigy", For example, it was infamously separated, with the first four episodes taking place in October and November 2021, only for the next six episodes to descend in January and February 2022. Then, he took an eight -month break, not starting again by October 2022. Those 20 episodes, we are intended to believe, forming the first season of the show. As if it were not enough, the show subsequently (and guilty) switched to Netflix, with all 20 episodes of the second season to fall for a day.

As one of the main writers of Voyager (not to mention one of the show's executive producers), Braga attended the annual Convention of StV in Las Vegas, Nevada, to greet many fans of the series. There, Braga made it clear that he was feeling that "Voyager" had only fans because of his volume of episodes. With shorter seasons, personal relationships cannot grow so strong. As he said:

"" Voyager "was 26 episodes a year. Some of you probably continue it because it is pleasant, and that's the kind of link you had. Many shows are now links with Tinder; eight episodes every two years?

"NCIS", on average, had 22.1 episodes per season (though its 21st season, which debuted in 2021, was only 10 episodes).

As for this writing, "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" has just finished its third season and is scheduled to return for both the fourth and fifth season, each of which is likely to be another 10-episode (most). Similarly, "Star Trek: Picard" ran for three seasons of 10 episodes, while "Star Trek: Discovery" was at least a little longer living, collecting 65 episodes through five seasons (or 13 episodes per season on average). But while Braga and many passengers want to continue seasons on Star Trek TV, the streaming era does not look suitable for the idea at the moment. (Again, there are exceptions; network crime shows are still on the ball, with "law and order" still 22 episodes each year.)

And things are increasingly fracture. Works without a lot of fanfare, but Animated series "Star Trek" for young children, entitled "Star Trek: Scouts", It is currently released in fit ... on YouTube. And even on the Star Trek channel YouTube; It is only at the foot of the channel dedicated to "Blaze and Monster Machines". The upcoming "Star Trek: Academy Starfleet" series will also last for only 10 episodes per season. It seems that the creatives behind the franchisee are simply unable to make a show that airs for nine months up to 26 episodes.

Today, as Braga noted, the old ways of making television look almost unrealistic. "It's hard to make big TV shows," he noted. "It's complicated. Then, again, how did we do 26 episodes? It's like a miracle." Obviously, Braga probably does not miss the milling of the workday or the occasional episodes of DAD that rigorous TV schedule often causes. But he, like all of us, misses to live on hipwoles for a long time.