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TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 weeks agoIt’s not that they forgot to write it’s more likely that they don’t have the time, have an asshole production team that push metrics in their throat (the Paramount family is particularly racist but prefer money over their racism) and every good writers have been laid off for attempting unionization.
It’s sad but Star Trek is in its Enshitification phase and is going on and on and on …
kboos1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t have time? 90s Trek had 20+ episode seasons and a season every year, current Trek is 6 or 8 episodes every two years. While the production quality has gotten better, the writing has somehow gotten worse.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
The time isn’t invest on the writing.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well they’re doing it wrong then. Most TNG episodes were written by freelance writers, not by the show’s main writing staff. The freelance writers sold scripts to the show and the main writing staff would polish them up for production.
A freelance writer could spend years playing around with ideas before finishing a script to send in. The show didn’t care, they had plenty of other spec scripts to choose from.