Star Trek: Infinite is a pretty traditional 4X game; you’ll navigate a series of menus to control your civilization, manage your planets, acquire resources, expand your territory, build and ...

Devlin (“Independence Day,” “Stargate,” “Leverage”) and co-showrunner Jonathan Glassner also used the “Star Trek” template for “The Ark,” premiering Feb. 1 at 10 p.m.

Yet, if Star Trek is hellbent on trying their hands again at a comedy, and it sounds like they are, there is a template that works that they should consider using.