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Great question. I've been wondering about whether we should add franchises as series or not. I'm inclined to think franchises will be difficult to understand as series in BookBrainz, as ordering may not make sense and constituent parts could be all over the place. Without being able to group or order things, it could confusing when seeing a ton of unordered works in a series. Of coures, I think the information is still valuable.

When works can be ordered in a franchise, I'd definitely add the series. Where that's not the case, I'd be more cautions, as it could end up adding a lot of relationships that are better expressed with a simple series-series relationship in the future instead of a ton of work-series relationships for each individual work. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_…, I'd probably avoid

adding each work to a Star Trek and/or Star Trek TNG series. You could still create series for these, but maybe you could just link to the subseries in the annotation for now as a stop-gap? Or we could just make the series in the future when series-series relationships exist. I've created an issue for this: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-871

BB-871: How to handle franchises

There are also crossover serieses. like _The Dominion War_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_n…

Where Book one and three are branded as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Two and Four are Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

at least this series could not be a sub series

I haven't run into a cross-over like that, but that makes sense. It'd be its own series and works would be in each series.

while a franchise entity would be nice, modelling them with series would suffice