If Discovery is a bust...

If DSY goes bust, it'll probably be due to CBS-AA being an absolutely terrible choice of medium in the US. A lot of people will just stream it on YouTube or some other site, and CBS probably knows that. They'll either realize their mistake and put it on Netflix in the US (where it should have been in the first place, since all the other Star Trek series are there), or go 'See? See? Nobody wants to watch Star Trek anymore!' and can it. Or worse, sell Star Trek off entirely. And in that case we definitely won't see a new Trek for a decade minimum.

Also hol up. The lead isn't the captain/CO? What blasphemy is this?

 

The 'having tons of premarital sex' and 'wearing poly-cotton' kind.

 

Based upon what? If Star Trek is sold then there are several companies willing to buy it and start it anew, not the least of which would be Netflix.

 

Star Trek will pass into memory and fade away like dew in the morning sun.

 

Or the "no space windows for *your* quarters" kind. Someone has to live in all those interior rooms.

 

Um, no.

 

More like when Discovery will be a bust. I'd be curious to know where this imagined, (desperately so), legion of new fans are going to come from? Everyone here is already a fan and a good number of them are anxious about how this new chapter, or should I say retread, is going to be received. It's like a tyre all right. Let's get a new one for the franchise vehicle but let's just slap some modern rubber on the used one. Oh and while we're at it let's not let the common man drive it we'll make it available in a better medium!

Pinning your hopes on yet to be fans.. good luck with that.

Frankly if that is the mindset of the distributors then they don't deserve support from the die hards. And it would seem they don't think they'll need it. We shall see.

I have some distant hope that someone with an actual imagination can take the franchise into new territory.

 

I have no doubt that Discovery will be a success.

Star trek did not die in 2004 because people weren't interested in Star Trek. It died because Star Trek stopped even trying to be interested. It had run itself out of gas. Those people had worked on it for a long stretch, and they were burnt out. All the risks they wanted to take were shot down by people afraid to take risks.

Discovery is already setting sail into somewhat fresh territory as far as Trek is concerned. Multiple ships, many recurring guest characters, arc story telling, a main character who is not the captain. There are a lot of elements that can be turned into a great series, and quite a bit of talent involved. I'm excited, nit picks on ship design and streaming services notwithstanding.

 

There's nothing fresh about old ground.

 

How About a Game Of Dominoes.?

 

Yes, because we've seen this era before and know everything about it?

 

I cant wait for Trekkies to viciously savage this series-every wittle flaw, every hint of a continuity error, the slightest hint of poor writing and the internet will be aflame.

 

I really don't know how its success is going to be measured, I mean ratings wise. Years ago I had one of those ratings boxes hooked up in the house. Loved it. What happens with access, paid, whatever.. viewing? I know from posting here every one and their dog seems to have Netflix. I'm sure Gene Roddenberry would love the concept of his show going out to this new medium and the so-called common man left out. However, it is what it is. It will be impossible to compare its commercial success with the others, given the different platform.

 

Every show has dealt with this.

 

A prequel sucks. I already know how everything ends!

Instead, I'm gonna go rewatch 'The Measure of A Man' for the 58th time.

 

We'll always have Risa.

 

I hear its a nice place to read a book.

 

Not like tears in rain?

 

Making something hard to buy is not the greatest idea.