Star Trek: The Next Generation Could Have Run 10 Seasons: Braga

Before Paramount canceled the series, writer/producer Brannon Braga believes Star Trek: The Next Generation could have run 10 seasons. Brannon Braga says Star Trek: The Next Generation could have run 10 seasons and ended at peak popularity. Paramount reportedly ended Star Trek: TNG after seven seasons to boost films like 1994's Generations. Jonathan Frakes and others hoped Star Trek: The Next Generation might get a last-minute reprieve from cancelation. The decision reflects Star Trek's long history of studio pressure, shifting from TV success to big-screen plans.has been since its inception, as the dream has survived for 60 years despite corporate mishandling at the network and studio level, but as they say,"You work with what they give you. " If NBC had its way, we wouldn't have had a third season of, since a fan campaign saved the show until the network, only to delay the inevitable of further slashed production calls and moving the sci-fi series to Fridays, which likely caused the final nail in its network run. Asbecame successful, Paramount saw gold in a sci-fi renaissance and why not bring their biggest IP to the big screen in 1979'sbecame the next maiden voyage for the franchise, set 75 years into the future, premiering in 1987 and running for seven seasons, which became the staple of all future spinoffs even as the franchise made it back to broadcast TV under the upstart UPN, untilfell well short at four seasons with its cancellation in 2005 and a new Star Trek series wouldn't be seen again until the streaming era with Paramount+'spodcast in August as Paramount pressured creatives, who were still hitting their creative stride, to pick up the momentum after the sixth and finalStar Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: The Next Generation EP Brannon Braga on Reluctance to Show's Cancellation at 7 Seasons with Paramount's Push to Films "In my mind, 'TNG' never ended," Braga said. "It was taken off the air at the height of its popularity. It had another three years, easy. " To elaborate on Paramount's decision to pull the plug on the TV side,"It seemed the thinking was, after seven years, you've accumulated enough episodes to have an incredible syndicated life. And things start to get more expensive by that point. " He elaborated that the studio didn't think the box office would yield as much of a return if the show was still actively running with new episodes, asthat would premiere in 1995, making its return to network TV for the new UPN. "I don't know why the movie had to be made this year,"in 1994. "Some of us kept hoping there would be an eleventh-hour reprieve, that Paramount would realize how much money the show has made for them and change their minds. "TOSthat also ran on NBC from 1973-1947 for only two seasons that featured all the original cast except for Koenig, who wrote season one's"The Infinite Vulcan," due to, again, budget. As thein 2002, that didn't exactly translate to a direct series. 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