Star Trek: Picard Creator Wants Anthology Series With Classic Characters

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Star Trek: Picard’screator and showrunner, Akiva Goldsman, has stated that he wants to see a new Star Trekanthology series, exploring classic characters from the franchise’s history. Star Trekis one of TV and film’s longest running franchises, with Star Trek: The Original Seriesfirst appearing on screens in 1966, before the first moon landing. The series ran for three seasons before it was canceled due to low ratings. However, the original series, which followed the adventures of the now iconic Captain Kirk, Spock, McCoy and others, gained popularity while in broadcast syndication. Renewed interest in the series led to the creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trekhas occupied an almost permanent space on TV and cinema screens since then.

The franchise now has a total of 13 movies, with six covering the characters of the original series, four covering the TNG era, and three movies as a reboot of the original series. In addition, the series is currently in a period of unprecedented expansion with four ongoing series, and more in development. The current series, and newest films, have diverged from the traditional Star Trek formula by being heavily serialized, and focusing on overarching plots, rather than the episodic format that earlier series were based on. This has been celebrated as bringing Star Trekup to date with the modern TV format where audiences expect to engage with long stories. However the change has also received criticism, with some arguing that character development has been sacrificed to fit in larger stories. Some of the newest series (Star Trek: Lower Decksand the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) are attempting to use a mixture of approaches, whereby an overarching story hangs