The seasons are also smaller. Take the episode count, for example. Season 1 of TNG was 26 episodes. Discovery’s S1, by comparison, is only 15.
That’s ten whole episodes of development space lost. Would be curious what’s driving the trend, whether it’s the network not wanting to pay for “filler” episodes, or the producers not wanting to put “filler” in for one reason or another.
The seasons are also smaller. Take the episode count, for example. Season 1 of TNG was 26 episodes. Discovery’s S1, by comparison, is only 15.
That’s ten whole episodes of development space lost. Would be curious what’s driving the trend, whether it’s the network not wanting to pay for “filler” episodes, or the producers not wanting to put “filler” in for one reason or another.