Star Trek: Discovery’s constant changing proves the show’s concept failed

Star Trek: Discovery is once again changing the tone of its shows hoping to find a wider audience.

Star Trek: Discovery didn’t have a great start to their show, making some bold choices that didn’t land; namely the heritage of Michael Burnham, the change in alien designs, and the overall tone of what the show was going to be. Fans rejected it and it forced the franchise to not only change the tone of the show but of the franchise going forward.

As Jonathan Frakes once lamented, fans finally started to connect with Strange New Worlds, a show that many fans saw as “real Star Trek” and the folks at Paramount agreed, directing all of their new and current shows to take on the same tone, and embracing the classic Star Trek feeling.

It’s been such a driving force that Discovery was told to do just that for its fifth season, and the producers did, hoping to keep the show from cancelation, but that wouldn’t be the case. The show finished filming and was formally canceled, and the crew was sent back to work to give the show a truly final ending.

A show constantly changing isn’t a sign of success but of failure

Historically, a successful show doesn’t change its format, let alone its tone or focus if it’s a hit among fans. For Discovery to constantly see its format, focus, tone and overall appeal of the show change from season to season was a sign that the show wasn’t hitting with fans like the executive producers of the show and the higher-ups on the streaming services had hoped for.

The show became so maligned it had to be thrown into the future just to keep it away from the beloved Trek lore that so many fans have come to hold dear. Discovery will end as a carbon copy of the shows that it tried everything not to be.

Every significant contribution that it has ever made to the canon and lore has essentially been done away with and the show will linger 1,000 yards in the future from anything relevant for some time to come.