History Franchise / StarTrek

With the Kelvin Timeline movies reaffirming Star Trek to the general public, writer/producer Alex Kurtzman was charged to spearhead a collection of new Star Trek TV shows and short films, all handled through his production company [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Hideout Secret Hideout]]. What most characterizes this era is the wider focus of productions: "''Star Trek''" is treated as a sort of super-genre and every show is largely independent from each other in terms of the creative team, with any given premise being essentially, RecycledWithAGimmick, with the "gimmick" being "in ''Star Trek''".

Set 2399-2402 -- Creator/PatrickStewart returns to the titular role of Jean-Luc Picard after 17 years. It ran for three seasons and 30 episodes. It is the "Gritty Character Drama" show, giving each season its own StoryArc. The first season starts 20 years after we last saw Picard in ''[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Nemesis]]''. It takes place after the [[EarthShatteringKaboom Romulan supernova]] that kicked off JJ Abrams's Kelvinverse, and explores some of the ramifications. Picard is long since retired from Starfleet due to [[NotWhatISignedOnFor ideological differences]] but gets dragged back into space by a cry for help from a young woman with ties to Data and Picard rallies a new crew to unravel this mystery.\\\
The second and third seasons continue the theme of revisiting old wounds, the second season features an AlternateTimeline plot instigated by the TricksterMentor Q and the third season finds Picard needing to call upon his old crew to investigate a conspiracy within Starfleet. All three seasons feature a few new characters but with [[RoleReprise returning characters]] and picks up on story arcs that have gone silent since the conclusion of TNG and its' movies.

The show is ultimately unique in that it forgoes a season-long plot arcs of contemporary shows -- if we go by the "RecycledWithAGimmick" premise, then, yes, [[RevisitingTheRoots this show is indeed]] "''Star Trek'', but in ''Star Trek''". While there are ongoing stories, recurring themes and character arcs, the show is content to let each episode largely stand alone.

With the Kelvin Timeline movies reaffirming Star Trek to the general public, writer/producer Alex Kurtzman was charged to spearhead a collection of new Star Trek TV shows and short films, all handled through his production company [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Hideout Secret Hideout]]. What most characterizes this era is the wider focus of productions: "''Star Trek''" is treated as a sort of super-genre and every show is largely independent from each other in terms of the creative team, with any given premise being essentially, RecycledAsAGimmick, with the "gimmick" being "in ''Star Trek''".

Set 2259-ongoing -- This show stars Captain Pike (Creator/AnsonMount), Number One (Creator/RebeccaRomijn), and Spock (Creator/EthanPeck), picking up after the events of ''Discovery'' season 2, and features their adventures on the USS ''Enterprise'' prior to the events of ''The Original Series''. This does not mean that other familiar characters from ''The Original Series'' don't appear; Creator/JessBush plays Nurse Christine Chapel, Celia Rose Gooding appears as EnsignNewbie Nyota Uhura, and Creator/PaulWesley takes on the guest-star role of Lt. James Kirk.\\\
The show is ultimately unique in that it forgoes a season-long plot arcs of contemporary shows -- if we go by the "RecycledInSpace" premise, then, yes, [[RevisitingTheRoots this show is indeed]] "''Star Trek'', but in ''Star Trek''". While there are ongoing stories, recurring themes and character arcs, the show is content to let each episode largely stand alone.

With the Kelvin Timeline movies reaffirming Star Trek to the general public, writer/producer Alex Kurtzman was charged to spearhead a collection of new Star Trek TV shows and short films, all handled through his production company [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Hideout Secret Hideout]]. What most characterizes this era is the wider focus of productions: "''Star Trek''" is treated as a sort of super-genre and every show is largely independent from each other in terms of the creative team, with any given premise being essentially, RecycledInSpace, with the "IN SPACE" part being "in ''Star Trek''".

Set 2383-ongoing -- An AllCGICartoon aimed at children, co-produced with Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. Set in the Delta Quadrant, it focuses on a group of alien teenagers who escape from a prison colony in an abandoned Starfleet ship, the USS Protostar (NX-76884). Creator/KateMulgrew reprises her ''Voyager'' role as Kathryn Janeway – a holographic version of Janeway, to be exact, who is the ship's Emergency Training Hologram. Nickelodeon, which gave it a two-season order, was initially set to air it alone, until it was announced that the episodes would be streamed on Paramount+ first before landing on the cable network. It was aired in two parts for its first season; however, it was canceled by Paramount, the third such ''Trek'' series to meet this fate, with its second season mostly complete. Both seasons were subsequently picked up by Netflix.

The show is ultimately unique in that it forgoes a season-long plot arcs of contemporary shows -- if we go by the "RecycledInSpace" premise, then, yes, [[RevisitingTheRoots this show is indeed]] "''Star Trek'', but in ''Star Trek''". While there are recurring themes and character arcs, the show is content to let each episode largely stand alone.