No one was “shoving anything down your throat.”
You don’t need to watch.
You may have been the key 15-34 year old demographic that advertisers and marketers target back in the 1990s. If so, you are not the key demographic now. Why do you think others should be paying for your preferences?
Good thing people stuck with TNG season one despite rehashes like ‘The Naked Now’, offensive episodes like ‘Code of Honor’ and most of a season of sub par offerings.
It’s possible on a regular basis.
However, as with other high profile accounts, one expects that messages that are high profile would be cleared with the person under whose name the official account is made.
This makes sense if they want to break down the sets.
There was a report posted elsewhere claiming that the viewership has been greater than expected but they still canceled it.
It’s a silver lining to see Shatner using his platform for the greater good.
Definitely a YMMV situation. I have seen all three Kelvin movies and liked the first best of the lot
Beyond didn’t redeem itself for me. The motorcycle ridiculousness put it in the Nemesis category for me. There’s also the fact that none of the rest of the family would watch with me after the first one.
That said, the movies are being led by completely different people at this point.
Kurtzman is only negotiating television production not movies. My point was that the movie people have yet to prove themselves in even being able to deliver a cinematic feature in the franchise. So, would be an extreme risk to lock a 5-7 year deal that includes television production.
It depends on whether the intent is to integrate the movies and television.
No one involved with the new movies has proven their ability to deliver on Star Trek, whatever their other credentials.
It would be a major risk to give any untested production company and EP the kind of multiyear contract needed to run the franchise.
I’m always concerned that having an unresolved cliffhanger has the opposite impact.
It discourages new viewers from trying a show and undermines the case for a movie.
A Firefly to Serendipity outcome is vanishingly rare.
And unlike Farscape, the production company partner can’t get the IP back and make a limited series or streaming movie to resolve it.
That’s not in the announcements
Variety confirmed that CBS Studios and Kurtzman are continuing to be in negotiations for a renewed partnership.
They put the show on a small niche streamer that doesn’t have an audience in the demographic that the show was made for.
The show did much better on Amazon channels than on Paramount+ — ranking 1 or 2 across its run. That tells you that the problem is that Paramount+ has narrowed its audience to Sheridanverse fans, not that the show isn’t good.
Every show Paramount+ has tried to attract the younger GenZ audience with has failed. And the streamer is failing — which is why Paramount has been bought and the streamer will be merged with HBO Max.
To get Hiroshi’s device back, Shaw and the team execute a daring heist at Apex Cybernetics.
Mild spoilers ahead for this Friday’s episode…
Again, there’s a teaser clip that Broadway World has up.
The franchise wouldn’t exist if my 90 something year old mother-in-law and women like her didn’t watch it all and buy the books and magazines since 1966.
Or, if I and my partner and others hadn’t been watching since TOS was in first run.
Having defended TNG against TOS fans who wanted it killed, and having seen TAS killed by fan campaigns in the mid 1970s, I have no time for people in their 40s and 50s who would rather kill a show than have new Trek that might be meaningful to my GenZ kids.