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News Picard series to have "strong international appeal"

I think most people internationally are hoping for a well-written and engaging show (no pun intended), since TNG did make it big internationally as well so it's a given that his sequel show sorta would be too?
 
It's true. Midnight Edge is only accurate 25% of the time.

Jason

True and agreed, but MIdnight's Edge is still nothing more than a show for entertainment purposes. Nothing more or less than what they're opining about. They even admit they're reacting to rumor( mill article)s and most of us watch these movies and form our own conclusions since we're not getting paid to parrot their beliefs. The fact they threw temper tantrums over the claim of recent that Rian Johnson chucked JJ's trilogy plan out the window was laughable since three years ago was already reported there was no set plan for the trilogy.

Even ignoring TFA's ripping off elements of Episode IV, the plot doesn't quite add up - and I don't believe it was Midnight's Edge that pointed out "Why make a map to find a guy who's gone out of his way to not want to be found?", which is a bit of a lame way to set up a trilogy. Yes, "who made it and planted it everywhere as some big game?", sounds epic, until a few seconds of thought renders it as being laughably bad... it's a pointless mystery box either way.
 

Still not sure how much I buy this. Considering Discovery just dumped its entire setting to go to an unknown timeframe. Changes like that usually don't happen to super popular shows.
 
Still not sure how much I buy this. Considering Discovery just dumped its entire setting to go to an unknown timeframe. Changes like that usually don't happen to super popular shows.

You think Parrot Analytics is making stuff up?

The argument can be made that CBS allowed the change because Discovery is popular.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Bryan Fuller’s original pitch to CBS had the show starting in Discovery‘s time, but then moving through the eras of Kirk and Picard and then going beyond that, reaching a time period that hasn’t been seen in Star Trek before.

However CBS decided to create a single serialized show and see how it performed before agreeing to anything that elaborate.

https://trekmovie.com/2017/07/28/br...trek-discovery-included-going-beyond-tng-era/
 
Never said that. I'm not sure how accurate their samplings are in a world where they have access to none of the streaming providers data.

They're measuring demand, and the phrase CBS used was "international appeal."

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/discovery-4-for-u-s-streaming-demand-in-2018.299070/

Am I correct in assuming your skepticism is based on the vocal minority of angry dudes and "Not My Star Trek" curmudgeons? There's a whole world out there besides them.
 
Am I correct in assuming your skepticism is based on the vocal minority of angry dudes and "Not My Star Trek" curmudgeons? There's a whole world out there besides them.

Nope. Just looking for some proof that their system is actually valid in measuring demand.
 
Nope. Just looking for some proof that their system is actually valid in measuring demand.

But something makes you suspicious. You said before you don't think a popular show would change setting, but the idea of a setting change has been with the show from the start.
 
One question is how does one become more international in outer space? If their is a premise with more built in broad appeal than, exploring space and meeting aliens I don't know what it is.

Jason
 
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