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They're losing money.

Based on what?

The subscriber growth hasn't been able to cover the cost to produce the content.
Based on what? Sources please.

The hope is that it will payoff long term by funding a bunch of content upfront, but the losses are increasing, which is why the companies' stock just dropped 30% in one day.

The companies' valuation has dropped from 25B two years ago, to 11B today. Ouch.

So you're taking the entire company problems and dumping them on the Trek shows? You do realize that Trek isn't the only shows on that network right?
 
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They didn't show any of the Lower Decks crossover. Probably trying to keep what they look like a secret, even though we have a general idea from Destination Chicago.
 
That is the continued stagnation of fresh artistic license in favor of continued promotion of stale familiarity, all in the name of appeasing a dwindling fan base
Why then use klingons? Yhey could create new species, and make them anything they like! Isn't familiarity the point of using same species?
 
So you're taking the entire company problems and dumping them on the Trek shows? You do realize that Trek isn't the only shows on that network right?
Here's my bigger question-why should we care? No, seriously, why should I as an average fan care about Paramount's financial troubles? Thus far, when I ask the question it comes back to either a popularity contest (subjective and debatable) or proof of failure (argumentative and a nonstarter).

Unless I have a financial interest in Paramount's workings (spoiler alert: I don't) then the company's finances are quite literally none of my business.
 
I have a hard time finding a reason to care other than "oh, teh noes, what if no new Trek is made." And right now I'm fine with the announced amount of content and am not sure I'd be terribly upset if it were scaled back.
 
I did without new Trek for almost 12-1/2 years except for three films spaced out over seven years of that period. I lived. I thrived in the fan community. I found ways to be happy and be a contributor to discussions.

We'll live if Paramount has financial troubles.
But muh SNW/LD/PROD/maybe Legacy!!

If they don't do the adventures of Captain Seven and ensign Picard, I will riot in bed. Under my sheets. Alone. Maybe.
 
If I don't get the zombified corpse of Shaw commanding Seven on a mission to save the galaxy from the great-grandspawn of the robotic AI tentacles from PIC Season 1 then I will boycott the whole galaxy.*

*terms subject to change.
If Seven can resurrect Neelix with her nanoprobes then she can probe Shaw back to life. Magic hands make for magic times, especially when you have prehensile tubes.
 
Unless I have a financial interest in Paramount's workings (spoiler alert: I don't) then the company's finances are quite literally none of my business.

I mean, I would argue that having access to the financial situation of large multinational corporations is in the interests of everyone who lives in a democracy, since such corporations are extremely powerful and capable of influencing the government to an extent normal citizens are not.

But also my argument there is getting pretty far away from the question of why Paramount+'s performance matters for the purposes of Star Trek fandom. ;)

If Seven can resurrect Neelix with her nanoprobes then she can probe Shaw back to life. Magic hands make for magic times, especially when you have prehensile tubes.

Sure, she could. She could ask the Guardian of Forever to undo his necrosis and revive him. She could give him some of Khan's magic blood. She could do any one of a million plot devices the writers could pull out of their asses to resurrect Shaw.

It's still a terrible idea that makes it harder and harder and harder to engage with Star Trek on any kind of artistic level.
 
It's still a terrible idea that makes it harder and harder and harder to engage with Star Trek on any kind of artistic level.
Agreed. Sometimes, death has to be permanent, if it's going to actually mean anything. Not that Shaw's death really meant anything. I found it rather contrived.
 
They're going to bring back Shaw & Hemmer ...

As SHEMMER !
(and Admiral Janeway will have a conniption fit)
 
Sure, she could. She could ask the Guardian of Forever to undo his necrosis and revive him. She could give him some of Khan's magic blood. She could do any one of a million plot devices the writers could pull out of their asses to resurrect Shaw.

It's still a terrible idea that makes it harder and harder and harder to engage with Star Trek on any kind of artistic level.
1. The Guardian of Forever doesn't bring people back to life. I think. Could be some obscure lit.

2. Khan was blown up. No magic blood.

3. Clearly what they need to do is get a Genesis device, strap him to the torpedo, and throw it at a planet.

4. Death is Trek's bitch.
 
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