• usernamefactory@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Having TV and film Star Trek exist in separate timelines seems like a bad approach for getting people invested in the franchise as a whole. I wonder if that’s the reasoning for the early Federation time period. People who have only watched the Kelvin films can understand it as a prequel to those, but elements from it could just as easily spin-off into a streaming show without issue.

    • Bill Mason 🖖 🎶 📖 🥅@mastodon.socialOP
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      2 months ago

      @usernamefactory @startrek I don’t know if I agree with that premise. I’ve run into any number of people who became Trek fans in general by starting with Kelvin.

      That said, I don’t know that breaking the movies into *more* timelines is a great idea.

      And I personally would be skeptical that anything from the proposed movies would ever turn into a TV series. They are really operating in separate spaces right now. And P+ is shedding series faster than they’re adding them.