So what? They still owe the fans nothing.
Could we as fan send a open letter to CBS executive to make Star Trek better
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Nor should they. Under any corcumstances.
If you want New Trek to change into something else, then you don't write letters. You don't subscribe to CBS All Access. You don't watch whatever channel DSC or PIC is on if you're not in the United States. Money talks.
Hate-watching and putting up toxic YouTube videos won't do anything. If you're still watching, CBS is still making money off you. If they're making money off you, they don't care what you say. They can take you for granted. They'll only listen to who they can't take for granted.
If you go into a restaurant and you don't like what they're serving, you don't go to that restaurant. You don't keep going in and keep paying for their service anyway.
But if New Trek goes away because you refuse to give it service, then don't expect Old Trek. It ran its course and ended for a reason. That reason was: not enough people were watching it to make it viable. 15 years ago. Old Trek is gone. You might get something else, but you won't get what you had.
Hate-watching and putting up toxic YouTube videos won't do anything. If you're still watching, CBS is still making money off you. If they're making money off you, they don't care what you say. They can take you for granted. They'll only listen to who they can't take for granted.
If you go into a restaurant and you don't like what they're serving, you don't go to that restaurant. You don't keep going in and keep paying for their service anyway.
But if New Trek goes away because you refuse to give it service, then don't expect Old Trek. It ran its course and ended for a reason. That reason was: not enough people were watching it to make it viable. 15 years ago. Old Trek is gone. You might get something else, but you won't get what you had.
The only way to get additional Old Trek is probably to read the novels and/or fanfiction published for it. Or write some yourself, I guess.
Well, I predict the '60s will be back in 40 years from now.
I, too will join you in this. Both the letter, and the riot.
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i wonder if this phenomenon actually started with Star Trek?
Hmmmm. I feel like someone who's older than I am should answer this.
C
Captain pl1ngpl0ng
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maybe it started with Bonanza?
It probably started thousands of years ago with people going to the new play of their least favourite writer so that they can explain to others why he sucks so much in detail.
Dear CBS,
Please give Star Trek to Alex Peters so he can make Axanar and bring straight white men back to the forefront of Star Trek and make it about long space battles because that's what Gene would have wanted.
Thanks,
Peter Patch Purchaser.
Please give Star Trek to Alex Peters so he can make Axanar and bring straight white men back to the forefront of Star Trek and make it about long space battles because that's what Gene would have wanted.
Thanks,
Peter Patch Purchaser.
Unless they're using other methods to watch... (friends or they all chip in for one viewing or other means?)
Styles come and go, it's cyclical. We've seen ti in fashion, every 25 years apart or so. The older styles will come back and be augmented in one form or another. Maybe not in Trek, which can still have core themes but branch out with different styles - it's up to the audience to like it, but other shows.
All chip in for six bucks? That takes me back... to elementary school. In the 1980s.
Five dollars today is like one dollar when we were kids.
Anyway, "Let's all get together to hate-watch Star Trek!" That doesn't sound like something you normally do with friends. Sure, sometimes I'll invite friends over and we'll watch bad '80s movies. But it's not the same thing. For one thing, we genuinely actually like what we're watching.
As soon as someone feels like they're watching something out of obligation instead of because they enjoy it, they should stop. "I have to watch it all!" No. You don't.
I invited some friends over to watch the premiere of DSC in 2017. We had different opinions. I didn't invite them over afterwards to watch. If I want to argue about the show, I can do that here. When I'm hanging out with people, IRL, I'm not hanging out with them to argue with them. That's not what I do.
It's like watching a baseball game where the Red Sox are playing (I'm from Massachusetts) and then you have someone over who's a fan of the Yankees. No thank you.
EDIT: And to clear something up (just to cover my ass), I only invite them over to watch so I can get them interested in subscribing themselves. I want to create new subscribers, not encourage people to leach off me. But if someone's already decided they're not going to like the series no matter what and I'm not going to be able to persuade them otherwise, there's no point for me to invite them over. I'd tell them, "If you want to watch, all you have to do is spend six dollars for a month." Which is the polite way of my saying what I really want to say, "If you want to watch it, then pay for it yourself!"
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This.
Person A: "I don't like TOS, it's so '60s!"
Person A: "I don't like TAS, it's so '70s!"
Person A: "I don't like the first two seasons of TNG, they're so '80s!"
Person B: "The Berman Era's not coming back, the '90s are over!"
Person A: "@$&%!!!!!! WHAT THE **** ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!!!?!!!!!!"
Person A: "I don't like TAS, it's so '70s!"
Person A: "I don't like the first two seasons of TNG, they're so '80s!"
Person B: "The Berman Era's not coming back, the '90s are over!"
Person A: "@$&%!!!!!! WHAT THE **** ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!!!?!!!!!!"
"Virgil sucks! The Aeneid is just bad Homer fan-fic! NOT canon!"
"Can we all make sacrifices to the Muses to make modern epics better?"
Yup. Always makes me laugh how some fans are like 'STD isn't trek because trek isn't about war and burnham is a mary-sue' while also saying things like "Axanar is true trek because it features the REAL klingon war (Garth played by Alec Peters is an actual mary-sue but it's ok because he is white and male), also read this fan-fic of mine (filled with mary-sues) which is set during the dominion war"
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