@NeoRocket wrote:
This goes back a ways. In the 60's as many recollections by Gene R., William S. Leonard N. and many others. It seemed like, despite great timeslot ratings, someone "High Up" just wanted Star trek DEAD! So they kept pre empting for ridiculous reasons then started playing musical chairs with the time slots they kept shifting Star Trek around to. Then they just outright cancelled it. So a decade later Paramount buys the rights for a song noting it "did well in syndication". So they resurrected it to give it a shot. STNG, Deep Space 9, Voyager, Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, Picard and a vigorous movie franchise churning out movies for decades now and cartoons and books and swag and conventions and well over a Billion Dollars later someone would think maybe NBC made a mistake? 
 

Instead of being shown the door I think they kept the Exec that cancelled TOS and he is still sitting in some non descript NBC office cancelling great shows to this day...

Just found your comment, and I agree completely. As I understand it, the only reason ST-TOS had as long a run as it did was because Lucille Ball (Desilu Studios) personally used her substantial power to keep it alive.

And just last week NBC (again) premiered 'La Brea', which may only be a limited run / mini-series - don't know yet. The pilot episode was pretty good, but I have a wide set of parameters for ANY SciFi show these days.

Wanna make a bet there is no season two?

This aggravates me much, but is anybody really surprised? NBC has pretty much the worst record for cerebral sci-fi. I really liked 'The Event' also.