Producer on remaking Star Trek TNG today: "We can't, we don't know how to do it"
wstone_bd · x · 2026-10-31
A user shares a conversation with his father-in-law, an "insanely gifted" producer, while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. Asked what it would cost to make the show today, the producer replied: "We can't — we don't know how to do it." The anecdote highlights how much tacit craft knowledge from the classic TV-production era has been lost, a point often invoked in discussions about institutional knowledge and engineering capability in the AI era.
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