Why CBS is taking the wrong approach to nutrek.
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Maybe I exaggerated the number a tiny little bit but just a mini-tiny bit.
Please, we're only getting this show because of the JJ films. Trek was dead and buried before them. Remember that Enterprise got cancelled due to low ratings on UPN. That's like McDonalds dropping an item from the menu for being cheap and bland.
Gosh- can't believe all the hate here because someone actually WANTS to produce a Trek series. Maybe it's because I'm really old and remember the bad old days when we didn't have anything but reruns of TOS, but, I'm pretty happy someone's giving it another swing.
And I think CBS should be APPLAUDED for taking the next logical step of taking Trek right to the internet. We learned from TOS, Voy and Ent that Trek and sci-fi in general has little business on network TV. (unless you really like stunt-cast pro wrestlers and "valentines to the fans" during Sweeps periods) Nu BSG changed the way sci-fi tv is made and Nu BSG could never have happened on network TV. Sci-fi is just too niche. It's cable, the net or nothing. This is the only way to go and I'm pretty happy about it.
Anyway, I'm a cord-cutter so I get everything through my Apple TV. By 2017, about a zillion more people will be like me so I don't see what the big deal is.
And I think CBS should be APPLAUDED for taking the next logical step of taking Trek right to the internet. We learned from TOS, Voy and Ent that Trek and sci-fi in general has little business on network TV. (unless you really like stunt-cast pro wrestlers and "valentines to the fans" during Sweeps periods) Nu BSG changed the way sci-fi tv is made and Nu BSG could never have happened on network TV. Sci-fi is just too niche. It's cable, the net or nothing. This is the only way to go and I'm pretty happy about it.
Anyway, I'm a cord-cutter so I get everything through my Apple TV. By 2017, about a zillion more people will be like me so I don't see what the big deal is.
449. The Menagerie was a two-parter, that counts as one episode!
I don't want to live in a world with 450 good episodes.
You can get a Chromecast for almost nothing and it can stream anything from your browser tab. With streaming, Trek doesn't have to worry about an old rating system that ignores how most people watch tv now. They just have to worry about how many people are watching the episodes online. Community went from NBC to Yahoo's streaming service and their official viewing numbers have gone up. This could be the best thing to ever happen to Star Trek.
As we know next to nothing about Trek2017, I don't think that we should jump to any conclusions. When TNG appeared I gave it a chance, even though I was used to TOS. 
We should at least wait until we know what the concept is before saying it's a terrible direction for the franchise. Unless you think it's terrible that they making more Trek.
It must be a terrible direction, even though we might like it if we knew what it was. 
Maybe the OP is really from the future.
It sounds like you need to sign my petition:
Petition · CBS: Cancel the New Star CBS Star Trek Series Now! · Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/cbs-cancel-the-new-star-cbs-star-trek-series-now
Space- The Final Frontier. It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a Federation Starbase, have won their first victory against the evil Klingon Empire. During the battle, Section 31 managed to capture secret plans to the Klingon Empire's ultimate weapon, Red Matter, a large, space going blob with enough power to turn an entire planet into a black hole. Pursued by the Klingon Empire's sinister agents, Carol Marcus races home aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701...No bloody A, B, C, D, or E ....or NX) custodian to the plans that can save her people, and give us a Star Trek series that has been prejudged before it ever even hit full on production status.
Sorry...couldn't resist. Just needed to make a jab.
Sorry...couldn't resist. Just needed to make a jab.
So did everyone hear there's going to be a new Star Wars and Star Trek? That's just cray cray. It's like 1999 til whenever Enterprise got cancelled all over again.
OMG, the temporal causality loop has started! gaahhhhh!!!
Quick, somebody leave the number three lying around in great quantities and uncertain points of obviousness so we can avoid ......
THUD!
Quick, somebody leave the number three lying around in great quantities and uncertain points of obviousness so we can avoid ......
THUD!
He didn't spell?!!!
INCONCEIVABLE!!!!!
Which is only slightly less well known than another warning-"Never get involved in a land war in Asia".
