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Do you prefer the new way of producing shows or the old way?

With season 5 of Discovery ending this week, they got 5 seasons, with 10 episodes per season. (Edit: ok a few more in the earlier seasons. Still shorter than previous Trek.)

Regardless of whether you like the show or not, Discovery has an insane level of production, special effects, lots of movement and locations. There are no 'bottle' episodes in the whole show.

SNW has got 2 seasons out, with at least 2 more coming. Likely 10 episodes per season, same as Discovery. Again, not much in the way of bottle episodes (not sure if the singing one counts). To me, every SNW episode is a banger - they haven't missed any.

For the older benchmark, we got 20-something episodes/stories per season. Lots of filler episodes, reused SFX, actors were contracted differently, more emphasis on the writing (but that meant bad scripts = bad episodes), etc.

Which style of TV do you prefer for Star Trek?

I like the newer high-quality level of TV, but I'm not sure if I need the insane production level for good Trek. Sure, TNG looks pretty dated by today's standards, so maybe my nostalgic glasses are working on that. I like space battles as much as the next person, but I'd go with Yesterday's Enterprise space battle rather than Voyager super splashy stuff.

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