@nocontexttrek To be fair, Gene Roddenberry, George Lucas, Stephen King, Tom Clancy and Tim Burton made much, much better media when someone else held the purse strings and could tell them, "No" and it would stand.
Remember how the plot of Star War I was a tax revolt? Lucas wanted that in A New Hope, along with Luke taking multiple passes to destroy the Death Star. His wife was the one to tell him they were bad ideas and 20th Century Fox agreed.