Was the show doing well at all? I appreciate that I might just be in my own little bubble, but I don't know a single person that loves this show. Some people like it, but it's always a milquetoast endorsement, like "It's not bad" or "It seems like a good scifi series but it feels like Star Trek fan fiction", etc.
I'm surprised they didn't at least strongly suspect it was the end.
Especially when compared to Strange New Worlds, which is an, imo, amazing Star Trek series.
Y'know, if I had a nickel for every time Jonathan Frakes was involved in a Star Trek episode that unexpectedly became the series finale, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
There's a lot of "emotionally" in that article. Kinda fits the series that was over-filled with emotional crap. (tbf, I aborted watching somewhere in Season 3, so maybe that changed afterwards. But I doubt it.)
From what I understand in television writing it was a constant struggle of "should we write a cliffhanger hoping it gets us renewed" to "we should have some closure in case we get cancelled", since many writers had no idea what would happen.
I hope they did not go for the Holodeck Series Finale, where we kill a main character, again.
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