Petition: Cancel Discovery And Greenlight Post-Nemesis Series

[Saga]

https://www.change.org/p/cbs-cancel-star-trek-discovery-and-greenlight-a-post-nemesis-series
This is a petition I started working on right after I read the news about Discovery being set ten years before The Original Series. I know it's controversial, but I felt the people who agree with it deserve a petition.

 

[locutus101]

Were they 'don't be bloody ridiculous' torpedoes ?

Yeah, that must be it.

 

[ancient]

Is there a petition to NOT cancel Discovery, and also Green-lite a post-Nemesis series and also green-lite 5 other Trek shows?

 

[JediMindMeld]

That's a bad idea on so many levels.

This is what we've got, and I for one am excited about it. Fuller and the others are making all the right kind of noises at the moment. I would have preferred a post-TNG setting too if I could have had my pick, but the simple reality is that it's not as profitable. The reason we're getting any tv show at all is because the Abramsverse films brought the TOS era back into the public eye again. Just be grateful and keep your fingers crossed that Discovery does extremely well, because it's our best chance to eventually see a continuation of the Star Trek universe.

 

[locutus101]

Is there a petition to NOT cancel Discovery, and also Green-lite a post-Nemesis series and also green-lite 5 other Trek shows?

That's more like it!

 

[Long Syntax]

Man I LOVE Gravity Falls!!!!

 

[wayoung]

Gah. This is the sort of thing with 0 support (literally, I opened the link to check) that someone will share and potentially end up on some largish blog, making everybody who's a fan look bad.

"Hahaha, look at the dumb Star Trek fans. They get their first show in a decade made by one of the best TV show runners in the businesses and the man behind the best films, and they immediately petition to cancel it because they're nitpicking the year it's set in."

I'm enjoying the face palm pics, keep them up

 

[Relayer1]

That's more like it!

Easiest way to get a post Nemesis series is for Discovery to be a massive success...

 

[locutus101]

Easiest way to get a post Nemesis series is for Discovery to be a massive success...

I am certain of it.

 

[Relayer1]

"Hahaha, look at the dumb Star Trek fans. They get their first show in a decade made by one of the best TV show runners in the businesses and the man behind the best films, and they immediately petition to cancel it because they're nitpicking the year it's set in.

I just wish this came anywhere near summing up the sheer dickwittery involved.

 

[Mudd]

https://www.change.org/p/cbs-cancel-star-trek-discovery-and-greenlight-a-post-nemesis-series
This is a petition I started working on right after I read the news about Discovery being set ten years before The Original Series. I know it's controversial, but I felt the people who agree with it deserve a petition.

This idea is absurd, entitled and all-around just flat-out ridiculous.

Watch the show or don't watch it; Discovery is what they're making.

 

[stardream]

Bolsheviks.

 

[ancient]

Easiest way to get a post Nemesis series is for Discovery to be a massive success...

Yeah, pretty much.

 

[Mudd]

Sorry, but here's an example of Doing It Right:

https://www.change.org/p/cbs-cancel-the-new-star-cbs-star-trek-series-now

Samuel T. Cogley is The Man, damnit!!

Dear CBS:

How dare you?

Don’t you realize that the most stress-inducing, anxiety-provoking, cruel thing that you can do to a Star Trek fan is to announce that you are going to give us a new Star Trek series?

I speak for all Star Trek fans (as will the next guy who comes along, albeit with totally different views) when I say that we know exactly what we want in a Star Trek series. We want it to be socially relevant, action-packed, and set during Captain Kirk’s original five-year mission. Except that we also want it to be not-too-preachy, not-too-much-action, and set one hundred years after the Dominion War.

There is one thing that we all know, with 100% certainty, and that is this:

You are going to fuck it up.

For this reason, we demand that you cancel the new series now, 14 months before we will ever see what it might have looked like.

In the few short days since you announced the new series, you have thrown small pockets of the internet into total chaos. See for yourself! (We apologize in advance for ultra-nerdy made-up terms like “nuTrek,” “Abramsverse,” and “JJTrek.” Try to sift through that shit as best you can.) Fans have rushed to their keyboards to correct other fans as to what is or is not “real” Trek. And whatever it is, you don’t get it.

We now have more than enough information to know that this series is going to be shit.

CBS. January 2017. Alex Kurtzman.

The evidence is damning. The utter disrespect of the fan base is staggering. We know everything we need to know to make our decision now. As one true fan on a Star Trek website put it - just one day after CBS made the announcement - “I'd rather reject it now, and hope many fans agree that this is likely a decline in quality for trek, and not a sign of improvement.” And he is exactly right.

Star Trek preached IDIC, or Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (actually, that was just a slogan that Roddenberry made up to sell some shitty jewelry to the fan base, but that’s not the point). I’m here to tell you that what Star Trek fans really want for the new series is ND;MC (No Diversity; My Combination). In other words, each fan knows exactly what he or she wants, and we will accept no compromises. How can you tell what a Star Trek fan wants? You won’t even have to ask, because they won’t shut up about it. But the psychology behind it is this:

Remember when you were younger and awkward and you didn’t have a lot of friends and you first discovered Star Trek? THAT is the best Star Trek ever, and the only hope for the franchise is to duplicate it, indefinitely. Short of the passage of time, you, CBS, are responsible for our inability to recapture our youth and happiness.

Also, we demand quality. Star Trek has a long history of impeccable drama and story-telling. We will accept nothing less than stories about things like: the captain’s dog pissing on a tree, a crew member’s brain being removed to manage an entire planet while his body walks around by remote control, the annoying alien cook accidentally jamming up the warp engines with cheese, intergalactic hopscotch, falling into the bushes and being sentenced to death by half-naked people, going faster than Warp 10 and turning into lizards, etc. The bar has been set very high, and we are not going to let you fuck it up.

And what’s up with charging us 6 bucks a month?

We Star Trek fans are not used to being gouged for money by corporate money-grubbers, by selling us the same DVD ten times over, for example, or an Enterprise shaped cheese-cutting board, or the aforementioned shitty jewelry. We won’t stand for it.

In summation, and let me be clear:

We want Star Trek for free.

But first, we want you to cancel it.

If you don’t think we can make your life miserable, please see the many, many signatures below this petition. Can you imagine if all of us, at the same time, refused to watch the new series? That will hit you where it hurts.

Technically, you are getting off easy with this petition. If you fail to respond to it, our next move will be to begin to certify a class of people for a class action lawsuit against CBS. The intentional infliction of emotional distress that you have already caused since your announcement on Sunday is inexcusable.

Stop the bleeding.

Cancel the show.

 

[Saga]

Man I LOVE Gravity Falls!!!!

me too.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Bolsheviks.

Did you know that the first petition was actually written in Moscow, before being stolen by the Greeks?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Not saying I like or don't like the new series idea, but here's a Vina facepalm (nobody ever thinks of her, but she did it first - production wise)

I tried to post the link from when I put it on facebook, but it doesn't show. I can't find the original image's page to link to.

 

[Chronos]

I don't understand why you're trying to get them to cancel the show.

I mean, let's be serious for a moment, the probability of them canceling the show is far, far higher than completely changing the setting so that they can satisfy an Internet petition.

 

[Relayer1]

Is no-one going to post that they were hoping for the much anticipated 'Starfleet Academy' show ?

 

[LtChange]

Nope