There is nothing on television right now as “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”. Serving as a prequel to the original television series “Star Trek”, “Strange New Worlds” is a return to an anterior television era in the 1960s – an era when technological optimism was still reasonable and space held infinite possibilities rather than being filled with unwanted satellites and billionaires trying to escape their terrestrial problems.

“Strange New Worlds” is indeed built to evoke these nostalgic memories and channel them in something new and exciting. It is The title sequence recalls the original series “Star Trek”The costumes are full of details that the trekks in the eyes of the eagle will recognize, and the visual effects of the show of the show are beyond everything that was possible in the 1960s. The result is a series which is both a hit Smash, with a 98% score on rotten tomatoes and a Long -awaited season 3 On the horizon, and a show that remains faithful to what made the original series of “Star Trek” so appreciated. Trekkies at the same time old and young love the show, and it is something “Star Trek” Creator Gene Roddenberry himself would be proud.

But as much as the show is a return to the original series, there is an area in which “Strange New Worlds” is frustrating and modern – at least according to the showrunner Akiva Goldsman – and this is the number of episodes it gets for each season.

At the time, television shows like “Star Trek” would make 24 episodes each season like Clockwork and constantly have new stories and adventures. Of course, this model has its advantages and disadvantages. After all, it was not always easy to create so many stories every season, which meant that The original series “Star Trek” had more than a few stinks support your strongest outings (The “Star Trek” episode the best rated on IMDB among them).

Now, at the age of streaming, we are lucky if we get 10 episodes of a program each year. Speaking with SFX Magazine (via Screen), The showrunner “Strange New Worlds”, Akiva Goldsman, admitted that he wanted him and his writers’ colleagues to have twice as many episodes to tell the stories they ended up generating for the series:

“Honestly,” Strange New Worlds “is the only show I have never made where I want to double the episodes. When you are in the writers’ room that breaks the season, we have 10 others. We throw 10 that are as good as the 10 years that we keep because we just don’t have the space for this show, because there are so many things you can do.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Goldsman explained that the 10 episodes that make up season 3 are ideas that the writers of the series initially wanted to explore in season 2 but could not because of the order of short episodes. Let us pray that Paramount + decides to go to the end with this series of returns and to give us an order of episode of size of the 1960s for “Strange New Worlds” one day.

All the episodes of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” broadcast on Paramount +.