'Star Trek' Series To Reach 100 Episodes? Alex Kurtzman Shares His Thoughts.
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00:00I think it's a reality now that in the modern state of streaming television, a lot of people say, why couldn't Discovery go 100 episodes? But even at its peak, there were executive producers telling me like 100 episodes in the streaming thing. That's a tall order. Alex, do you think there's a possibility of any modern track show hitting 100 episodes in this day and age?
00:19I don't know. It's very hard. You know, I mean, the fact that we've gone five seasons is sort of a miracle. I think most people watch two seasons of a streaming show and they check out, you know, and that's not specific to Trek. I just think that's the watch pattern for television, you know, in the streaming world. It's hard to know. I think that my guess would be that it would be unlikely, Mick.
00:39But in some ways, I think what's lovely about that is, you know, you watch, you know, it's funny because you even talk to old writers of old Trek series and they're like, man, we were, there's a bunch of filler episodes in there. We were just trying to get to 22 a season, you know, and we all know which of those episodes were. We know the ones that were truly stellar from the ones that felt like they were kind of spinning their wheels. And so I think what 10 episodes a season forces you to do is really make sure that every story counts as much as it possibly can. And I like that.
01:09You know, I like what that affords us now.