For 1987’s The Next Generation, the very premise of doing Star Trek without familiar characters Kirk and Spock was novel enough to differentiate the series.
They’re in the business of iteration and contrast, of proving that this incarnation has something sufficiently different in store. Most Star Trek spin-offs presume a level of pre-existing engagement in the franchise, and use their first episodes not to sell viewers on Star Trek, but to sell them on this Star Trek. 28 on Paramount Plus, fully breaks from this trend, presenting Star Trek in an entirely new way, and becoming the most accessible jumping-on point for the franchise since J.J. Star Trek: Prodigy, the new animated series that premiered Oct. It’s possible to start any individual series and eventually get your bearings, but many of them aren’t terribly welcoming unless you’ve absorbed the prerequisite mythology, either directly or through cultural osmosis. The Trek franchise has a well-earned reputation for having a dense canon, which has been built up over the course of 55 years and more than 800 canonical installments. When the title of a new TV series begins with “Star Trek,” it’s natural to be intimidated.
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