I’m also on board with a new Trek series. I can never have enough Star Trek!!

But I did feel they did it a bit with 4 and there were definite improvements. If someone else, especially Kring, was saying this I wouldn’t care, but Fuller is a better writer. This show has desperately needed better thinking behind it for some time.

Also, agree soooo much with a lot of what jerseycajun says. Especially about being over feely and not delivering.

And the reset button. Way too overused. I never wanted HRG to die, and when he was shot I was yelling at my tv, but then he came right back and it felt like none of it mattered.

I’m still up for another season, and if they wrote it like it was going to be the last one I think it would be well worth watching.

I lost faith in him during the finale when I joked “Wow Peter, you’re still in this.” and realised that he hadn’t been in a starring role for ages. They can’t cram in all the characters now and its time line is buggered.

Than they completly went back on a previous move they made in Fullers first epiosde, you know the one and I kind of gave up on most hope that Fuller was really that different to everyone else in the long run.

I’ll tune in for season 4 cos of Ray Parks involvment but I’m assuming this is the last season.

Oh, but a Star Trek TV series! I’m all for it! I know nothing of Old Trek but I’d be happy to become a new school Trekie after what JJ did.

If the show actually killed off characters permanently it would be more compelling.
Oh here we go again with Slyer and the same ole group…
The photo at the top says it all…
It seems like NBC just wants a 4th season for syndication value.

Let’s be honest though. The show has made us come to expect that even when a character “dies” they aren’t really dead. The show has hit the ‘reset’ button several times too often.

I wish they could go back and recapture the synergy of season one, but it seems doubtful. Last season had some moments that made me think they were actually going to do that, until they spent the last remaining episodes in virtual stasis, where characters ponder and emote but the net effect building to nothing at all. They never really advanced the ball in a season where it should have advanced the ball the most.

The original idea for the show, or so I understand, had to do with having a new cast each season building to a new conclusion. I liked that idea. It meant that characters’ fates truly would be in jeopardy and you’d that much more for them.

Sadly, as the quote above indicates, they seem to have grown too attached to this cast to let them ever be put in real jeopardy again. If you want the biggest reason for the drop in viewership, there it is. No more tension, lots of emoting over trivial things and story threads that lack compelling interest. There were bursts of inspiration here and there, but it’s too inconsistent to hold up in this condition much longer.

Here’s a hint guys: Stop trying to have the characters tell us what they’re feeling and start having them show it and prove it in their actions. Give their actions real purpose, give the characters consistent motivation. For my money, the best episode was still “Company Man” because it did all of those things right and avoided the wrong, and at that time, we still believed characters might survive.