The constraints of a standard TV season, where you have a limited number of episodes to tell a single, serialized story, is a format the new Star Trek comedy team wants to break free from. The pair hope to capture some of the magic of the more character-driven, dramedy-style episodes that were popular in DS9 and TNG when the standard TV season was about 39 episodes long.
The new comedy will give fans a taste of those nostalgic episodes that took characters on low-stakes adventures that were often silly and followed “a day in the life of” a single character rather than plunging them into a rigorous space battle.
