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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 624011" data-attributes="member: 5">If your friends jumped off a cliff... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I'm not convinced that a show cannot be just as engaging without such an arc.  And let's not forget that I'm just suggesting it doesn't require a series-arc.  Double episodes (such as the cliff-hangers), certainly individual episodes, and perhaps several consecutive episodes can all have their own arcs.  The shows you mention above do just that even under the series-arc that exists.  "No series-arc" does not mean that there is no story at all, but just that the series can be written with less restrictions on where it might be headed come seven years down the road.To take that a step further, there is no reason why character-arcs cannot exist without a series-arc.  These can be altered along the way, but we can certainly say that so-and-so is going to be bumped off by season X or that so-and-so will be promoted by season X, etc.Pesky continuity! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  It may not be the reasoning behind using that story line in the first place, but it seems to have been a by-product, at the least.It would seem that TNG, DS9 and Voyager all shared an overlapping timeline, but TOS was much earlier, of course.  That being the case, and if Enterprise is meant to also stand alone, doesn't that mean that Enterprise could follow the same no-series-arc formula?  Just a thought... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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