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Discovery #4 for U.S. streaming demand in 2018

The Habs Fan said:
Kurtzman has been quoted as saying that he wants each Star Trek series to be very different from each other. If they want a Pike show, I can't see how it'd be that different than Discovery if Discovery kept its current setting.
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Balance of Terror and Shore Leave were very very different Star Trek stories yet same crew same century. I really don't see the problem.
 
Cyrus said:
Cord cutters who dropped their cable service to save money will be hesitant to spend too much on this.
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Damn skippy. I didn't dump the $130 a month bill just to pick up thirteen $9.99 monthly bills.
 
Alan Roi said:
Balance of Terror and Shore Leave were very very different Star Trek stories yet same crew same century. I really don't see the problem.
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Kurtzman also said that he couldn’t tell the difference between DS9 and VOY. I personally find both of those shows pretty different, but maybe that’s an indication of how different he wants the shows to be
 
DaveyNY said:
But the overall gist of their system is How Many Times a particular show is talked about or mentioned.
The "weight" of individual posts seems to be minuscule at best.
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https://support.parrotanalytics.com/hc/en-us/articles/222663907-What-is-DemandRank-

The numeric value is just part of the formula.

To go deeper, the result — DE — are the Demand Expressions for that show in that country. The first term, P, factors in the country population dimension. Inside the summation, the e subscript refers to the expressions, such as likes, comments, edits, downloads, etc., that we are aggregating. The first term, 'we', is the weighting applied to each type of expression according to our Demand Rank model; for example, a purchase is a stronger indication of demand for a show than a page view, so it would have a higher weight. The second term, de, incorporates the numeric value of the expression: for example, 20 likes or 500 views.

For comparison, a good example of a well-known ranking algorithm is Google's PageRank.
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Alan Roi said:
If you don't have multiple series in the same time period, you can't have crossovers.
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Why not? This is sci-fi and time travel tells me than can have just as many crossovers as any other show. The novels and comics have been doing it for decades. DC Comics #33 (first run) had the TOS crew meet the TOS movie crew.
 
ThankQ said:
Damn skippy. I didn't dump the $130 a month bill just to pick up thirteen $9.99 monthly bills.
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Luckily you can get most streaming services for just a month a year to catch up on each one separately if you want and are willing to be patient. Can you do that with cable?
 
BillJ said:
Why not? This is sci-fi and time travel tells me than can have just as many crossovers as any other show. The novels and comics have been doing it for decades. DC Comics #33 (first run) had the TOS crew meet the TOS movie crew.
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Well you can't have crossovers where people will endlessly bitch about (this being 2019 after all) timetravel contrivances. I mean, the wailing about the use of time travel in Discovery has already reached a fever pitch. You really want more of that?
 
Alan Roi said:
Well you can't have crossovers where people will endlessly bitch about (this being 2019 after all) timetravel contrivances. I mean, the wailing about the use of time travel in Discovery has already reached a fever pitch. You really want more of that?
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I want to be entertained. People are going to bitch regardless of what choices the creative team makes.
 
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