Alternate History in Star Trek part 11: TOS Spinoffs in the Early Nineties

[Gary Oswald]

Discuss this article by @Thande here

 

[Thande]

Good work on finding those covers Gary.

 

[Charles EP M.]

The point about Discovery and serialisation makes me realise there's very few points in that show where they just do their 'day job' and we see them functioning & interacting as 'normal', the bread and butter of Trek (and other things). Mostly it's a few eps at the start of S2, and that had to start by reminding us the secondary bridge crew had names.

 

[Thande]

The point about Discovery and serialisation makes me realise there's very few points in that show where they just do their 'day job' and we see them functioning & interacting as 'normal', the bread and butter of Trek (and other things). Mostly it's a few eps at the start of S2, and that had to start by reminding us the secondary bridge crew had names.

Yes, it is a problem. I remember the first season had one of those five-minute webisode thingies and I was like "...at what point does this actually insert into the continuity, because it feels like there's no actual time gap for it?"

TNG really benefited from being able to have the more 'soap opera' feel in the middle to late seasons.

 

[Alex Richards]

Of course with the Heroes situation it's perhaps an open question whether they actually were intending to create space for spinoffs or just had their self-contained story idea.