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Discovery Renewed for Season 2

Star Trek: Medicine. This series would cover the captaincy of Katrina Cornwell. Watch as she commands her ship to various planets in the federation. She and her crew bring food, water, medical supplies and psychiatric care to victims of attacks, disease, or famine. They face many perils -- not all of their travels go through friendly places. To combat this, Starfleet has designed it with new evasion-based technology. Medicine is small, easily maneuverable, and, thanks to the new technology, capable of rapid course changes and hyper-fast spins. These are the voyages of the USS Medicine: commissioned to heal. Lorca (rank unrevealed as of yet) and Beverly Crusher (through time-line plots) are both recurring characters.
 
Just because I'm a numbers guy, even BOMojo admits that their inflation calculation is approximate. It doesn't account for 3D sales, for example. I'd probably treat any number within 10% of each other as identical if there's more than a couple years gap. ST09 did about the same as TMP. SID did the same as TVH. STB did the same as GEN and TUC.



One of them is, maybe. Again, take any adjusted numbers with a heaping dose of skepticism. A 5% error is easy to accrue over a 30 year window.

Show me evidence to the contrary and I'll consider it. At present, the evidence we have makes it pretty clear. 'These numbers are probably wrong' isn't proof of anything unless you show me convincing evidence why they're wrong.

For now, it's pretty clear that JJ's film are bigger money makers than classic Trek films, and were generally better reviewed as well.
 
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It's very exciting. Creatively they can make the next season anything they want (beside being related to Star Trek). They could do 10 seasons and each one could be fresh, different and original.
 
Show me evidence to the contrary and I'll consider it. At present, the evidence we have makes it pretty clear. 'These numbers are probably wrong' isn't proof of anything unless you show me convincing evidence why they're wrong.

"Adjusting for ticket price inflation is not an exact science and should be used to give you a general idea of what a movie might have made if released in a different year, assuming it sold the same number of tickets."

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm

In other words, take the inflation adjusted numbers with a grain of salt; basic statistical analysis will tell you that there is always a certain margin of error in such calculations. I tend to think it may be closer to accurate than STR does (I feel comfortable enough about the separation between ST09 and TMP to say ST09 gets the nod, but see the article for caveats about average ticket prices and understand how 3D/IMAX releases can impact that, and their comments on pre-1980 movies and I can't say STR is wrong to give that much margin).

Still, I have to say that I don't think we can conclude from BOM's estimates (understanding how they are arrived at) that STID outperformed TWOK in any meaningful way, or that BEY outperformed GEN. We can say, however, that the Kelvinverse films, on average, outperformed the TNG films.
 
We can also say that it doesn't really matter. All the Trek films were relative successes, with the exception of THE FINAL FRONTIER, INSURRECTION, and NEMESIS either underperforming or outright bombing.
 
We can also say that it doesn't really matter. All the Trek films were relative successes, with the exception of THE FINAL FRONTIER, INSURRECTION, and NEMESIS either underperforming or outright bombing.

I agree, and while the current movies have outgrossed the older ones, it's worth noting that the lack of competition in the past helped the first 4 films land in the top 10 of their respective years. After 1989, it became harder and harder to achieve that, with more big releases annually. Only ST09 managed to break into the top 10, at #7*

*referring solely to domestic grosses on this one. Globally, ST09 would have landed around #11 by my count, but could not find the actual list.
 
If it does, there are things I absolutely don’t want to see:
  • Khan miniseries
  • Captain Worf
  • Captain Sulu
  • Captain Riker
Hell, I’ll make it simple... Anything that screams for immediate follow-ups to the 21 seasons of 24th century series. That time is done. It’s okay to move on.

And before anyone says anything, while I think it’s adding some interesting texture to characters like Sarek, Mudd and Spock (even if we haven’t seen him), I would have been happier had Discovery been a full-on reboot. I wanted that since day one. I’m relatively happy with what we have but I think cutting the ties completely with the Prime Universe would have given them so much creative freedom.
I will add:

A series set on the Enterprise-J (but G or H is a maybe).
Anything set any further ahead in time than maybe early to mid-25th Century. Please don't go so far that the tech will resemble magic! Especially since if it does go that far, they'll probably have tech that's woefully out of date.
 
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