WHOA!

Well, Hello!

ProvidenceMine here!

I have to say that I was really jazzed when my sister told me early this morning that a new Captain Pike show was A GO!


That is really good news!


I do hope, however, that in writing the show, the production team doesn't listen too heavily to the old-timer fans on how the show should be.

For one thing, times change-and you can not have a show that is a carbon copy of all of the shows that came before.

Remember Enterprise, anyone?

Nothing was new, nothing changed, and the show failed to launch.

So, fans want an episodic show, and that's fine.  However, to make a bunch of neat little unrelated shows is something that only network tv does now, like those insufferable Law and Order shows.  I can tell you right now that you will have certain death for this new Pike show.  What smart writers would do would be to have some continuing storylines along with the one-shot episodes.  That's what you want, as it makes the show more interesting.  God, even soapy shows like Chicago Med have continuing storylines in each episode.

All I'm saying is that the writers need to have the freedom to be creative and not be chained to what the fans always want.  Remember, these are the same fans who had fits of rage when Avery Brooks was cast as the Captain in Deep Space Nine, and they also were bothered by the show's more darker approach to Star Trek.

Now, how many seasons did Deep Space Nine last?

Seven seasons was it?

How many seasons did Enterprise last?

Four, and they were a painful struggling four that only got a fourth season because of a pathetic letter writing campaign.

See what you get when you don't listen blindly to the fans?  Some fans even consider DS9 to be the best of the Star Trek shows, and that's because the writers went beyond tradition and fans wishes and took a chance.  That's what success is.

So, here's good luck to this new Pike show!

Make it good!

Don't listen blindly to the fans.

Take a chance with your own ideas and...

Hit it!