3 reasons to unify the Star Trek film and television series
By Chad Porto
Even bigger budgets
Star Trek: Discovery and Picard respectively cost close to $10 million an episode to make. Between them, that’s close to $250 million for one season of each. That’s a lot of money for two shows. Now, imagine if Picard and Discovery had that alone for one 90 minute adventure? That’s some serious space flowers right there.
The biggest issue that has always faced Star Trek and science fiction as a whole, is that you need the ability to create so much with practical effects and special effects. That takes time and money. That’s part of the reason why Star Trek and other shows like Battlestar Galactica never (or rarely) had big action scenes. The budget for a series is only so much.
A scene like the Enterprise falling from space and to Earth in Star Trek: Into Darkness may cost too much for a TV series to do. A movie, however, no problem. So imagine what Discovery would look like as a film franchise? Sure, a good number of fans will still hate it but imagine the story they could tell with a far bigger budget? It could be something special to look at.
Granted, it doesn’t have to be Discovery that gets the film treatment, they’re just the first name that popped up.