From Joshua Tyler & Drew Dietsch | Updated
After the publication of Star Trek: Section 31It is worth hearing negative criticism that Star Trek calls dead franchise. It is difficult whether this is true or not, it is difficult to deny the former science fiction universe that it has reached a crisis point.
What exactly happened to bring Star Trek into this state? Let us roll the clock back to 2017. Star Trek Was on television for 12 years. Published the last big piece of Trek media, Star Trek: Beyondended as a taillance.
So, Paramount Developed a brave new plan to revitalize Star Trek with a prequel. Well, the franchise had just done that recently. The film 2009 Star Trek was essentially a forerunner, time travel Spock Shenanigans are damn.
But that was on the big screen; This time we wanted to get a Prequel series. Well, the franchise had already done that. It was called PursueAnd Paramount pulled the plug after four seasons.
With these projects, which were in the back and apparently forgotten, Paramount drove up with a Star Trek Prequel series Streaming Service, CBS all access. This third attempt by a Star Trek prequel would be the basis of the new era for the franchise. The third time was not the charm.
That is why Star Trek’s disco era failed.
How Star Trek got into disco
Star Trek’s disco era started in the era of the Disco, the 70s, regardless of which Outfit von Bones The film Could let it believe. The disco era is named after its founding series, Star Trek: Discoverywhich debuted in 2017. It ended at least spiritually with the publication of Star Trek: Section 31 In 2025 there is a film that is now the worst Star Trek film Lazy tomatoes According to critics and users.
Star Trek: Discovery was originally created by Brian Fuller. Fuller was a well -known television author and producer who had written for both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine And Star Trek: Travel in the 90s. Since then, Fuller has become a sought -after talent in the television world and was the creator and show runner of the celebrated series like how how Push goose blunders And the pioneering adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal.
He had the right resumeand Paramount commissioned him to create one New Star Trek Series. His original pitch was to carry out a kind of serialized anthology in which every season in different times in Star Trek story told a certain story in which new characters contained every season. The first season would be a forerunner The original series, And every subsequent season would move Always further into the future.
Paramount’s reaction was in the response from the reaction of a regular serialized show, and then we will see. Fuller started working on Discovery as a showrunner. At the same time, he was also in the middle of the series as a show runner for the series American gods.
Paramount collided with Fuller and hired a director for the pilot who was not correct for the project. After these fights, Fuller essentially left production, but an recognition for the show was maintained when everything was said and done.
The showrunner duties would go to Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts, the writers Fuller had worked closely with his time and carried his time Push goose blunders. Star Trek: Discovery would premiere under your administration in 2017.
Although the initial critical reaction was positive, the sound and the action -heavy focus of the show made many fans. When it comes to the assessment or trust of streaming viewers, you are much more lucky to find out the Tamar language.
Star Trek goes full
The first season in the world, production started in season 2 with mountain and Harberts until both showrunner showed for the first episode of the season about the budget and for alleged abusive behavior towards other writers on the dismissal.
Alex Kurtzman came into the second season. Kurtzman was a creative talent for creative play for the youngest Star Trek films, including Star Trek: In the darkness. If you want to know our thoughts, take a look at our video in which the title gives him away.
Kurtzman now held the future of the entire franchise in his hands. He would not only remain for responsibility discovery But essentially Star Trek would become the focal creative voice.
There were experiments on juice discovery For more legacy fans. Anson Mount was introduced as Christopher Pike, and although there are many fair criticisms that can praise him, most of them agree that his casting and his assumption of the character are some of the bright spots of the disco era.
Unfortunately, the rest of the show was still the show for which it was always laid out, and adding a good character did not save a show. Unless this character is Steve Urkel, I think.
Star Trek introduces a discovery quartan
With further Trek series projects planned for the now converted Paramount+ Streaming service, Star Trek: Discovery Didn’t quite end with where the franchise seemed to apply. That seems to be the canon reaction from the series, the time in the future jumps that nothing that it has done Discover On his own narrative island.
After all, the Christopher Pike from Anson Mount would lead a new Prequel series. Star Trek: strange new worlds. The fourth time seems to have been the charm so far. Although Strange new worlds is technically an expansion of the disco verse, it quickly went to work to differ from the discovery and many mistakes that were shown in the eyes of the fans. Strange new worlds Even repaired the Klingons.
Discovery would finally end his course after five seasons, and that should have been for the disco era. The franchise was pulled out of the series, and Paramount was quite determined to work on a number of other Star Trek shows.
Alex Kurtzman always pushes bad ideas Nobody wants
Alex Kurtzman had tried to do one Star Trek: Section 31 Spinoff series since the first season of discovery.
His plan concentrated Michelle Yeoh. A brutal dictator who loved violence knows the perfect Star Trek products.
The fans were not exactly enthusiastic about the idea and continuously prioritized from Paramount other new series Section 31. It was finally got the starting dimensions, but after switching off Covid, it was re -configured to take over the intended series history and squeeze it into a feature film. Even then, Kurtzman stated an update that explained that Section 31 Now had a low priority when it came to current Trek projects.
An Oscar victory keeps the disco -era running
The disinterest of Paramount in Section 31 Would change in March 2023 when Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar for the best actress. The next month, Star Trek: Section 31 went into production as a feature film in full length. We think you can see why it has to skip the line for priority.
In January 2025, Star Trek: Section 31 Arrived as a direct film on Paramount+. It was the first Star Trek film to have been published for almost a decade. It is now the worst film in the entire Star Trek Canon.
There is a lot of ReviewsBreakdown, And rage bait videos for section 31 out there when you want to dive into the literally bloody details. But it is enough to say that Section 31 Like Alex Kurtzman’s ultimate attitude to the franchise, as it is And it’s terrible.
Star Trek didn’t have to take this path, Requiem for McMahan and Matalas
What is double disappointing about the The disco era is that Paramount had other Star Trek projects that fans received much warmer. The animation series Lower decks Didn’t get it Be another Prequel project, but instead brought back lightness and fun to the Trek universe. Unfortunately, the show was canceled after a run of five seasons, and the creator Mike McMahan has moved away from the franchise.
Tangential for the disco verses was the somewhat self-contained picard verse, a vanity project that developed as a series about Patrick Stewart’s captain Picard character. This show was a disaster for two seasons and fit exactly the tonal approach that we had seen in the disco-era projects until the third season of Veteran TV Showrunner and Terry Matalas in the wool.
Matalas provided what is generally considered the best Star Trek season of the modern Trek -era. Matalas has campaigned for more Star Trek projects, including lunch for a show called Star Trek: Legacy That would concentrate on many of the classic characters from shows such as how The next generation. The fans started petitions to convince Paramount to hand over the entire franchise to him.
Instead, Paramount Matalas passed on. And we have Star Trek: Section 31 instead.
Why Star Treks Disco -ära failed
It is not difficult to see why Star Trek’s Disco era has not seen the kind of cultural effects from the franchise. It tried to bring Star Trek and push it into another skin, and never really focused on the things that fascinated the fans about previous Star Trek projects.
Although there are still disco -dna in Strange new worlds, And Paramount tries another prequel with the Starfleet Academy The series feels like Trek was at the end of this phase in her franchise identity.
