Multi-episode arcs can be repackaged as feature-length, direct-to-video offerings as well.
I understand the angst over the aesthetic of Discovery. I just reconcile it as a high-definition version of Roddenberry's series. If he approved of TMP, I think he'd have been pretty happy with the look of this show.
I'm also tempted to mind-wipe myself, travel back to the '60s, and review this new "Star Trek" show on NBC:
"Well, NBC is jumping on the sci-fi bandwagon with their answer to 'Lost in Space' this September. It'll be a disaster. I hear they already filmed the first episode and the network trashed it. More like Star WRECK."
"Oh boy. They cast a colored guy as a recurring character. I guess they don't get their own ship in the future."
"Another casting rumor confirmed: They're adding a Japanese fella. I guess we've already forgotten Pearl Harbor."
"Make mine LiS! Although I hate that CBS TOTALLY changed the aesthetic of this fine family show by making it in color. That wrecks everything. It's gone from looking like a classy feature film to a gimmicky TECHNICOLOR TV show. Tech-NO-color, please!"
"Pics of the Star Wreck cast has been released and the main character looks like SATAN! McCarthy was right. The godless commies own Hollyweird! At least the captain's secretary is a hot blonde."
"According to a leaked sell sheet, the Satan character is half alien, half human. Someone's really pushing their interracial agenda down everyone's throats!"
"A small glimmer of hope. They got Paul Fix to play the ship's doctor. Loved him in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and on Gunsmoke."
"If anyone saw that episode of Twilight Zone a few years back about a gremlin on the wing of an airplane, the passenger who lost his mind is the CAPTAIN of this spaceship! Ha ha ha! All hope is lost."
"A friend of mine saw plans for the Star Wreck spaceship. He said it's basically an oil can with a disk at one end and two long rockets sticking out of it at the other. There's no way to LAND the thing. So stupid. I'll take the Jupiter 2 any day."
