Weird things happen when fandoms cross-breed. Star Trek was a futuristic Horatio Hornblower, Star Wars was WW2 allied bomber missions. When you combine the two, you’re really not extending Hornblower or bombers into the future, you’re really just writing about those fandoms.
Nothing wrong with that, GalaxyQuest, Black Mirror, The Orville, and Lower Decks all do a good job of it. But at some point, I think audiences want stories based in some kind of reality that’s outside their own heads.
I know, let’s make a movie about the tulip bubble of 1637, the dance epidemic of 1518, and the saint’s pageants of the 1300s. Only it’s set in the future, ten minutes from now!
