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Discovery at STLV. The massive info dump

My opinon on Bernd - He is a ship guy who has developed his own concept of the evolution of Starfleet ships. He has this tree of evolution, looks at the Shenzhou, and is having trouble with its placement in his tree.

I have read about simliar fits of disbelief and rejection, for example, about the changing tree of human evolution. We keep finding species which do not fit our pre-conceived notions of what should exist and redefining dates on the tree. The latest revision is having the earliest modern Humans appearing on the tree hundreds of thousands of years earlier. There are scientists who are reluctant to accept the new data.

I am not an engineer and I do not have in my mind a tree of Starfleet ship evolution. So, I am cool with the three new Starfleet designs I have seen so far. I have several issues with Discovery. This is just not of them.
 
I'm wondering why they aren't screening the first episode for fans at the show, and the only reason I can think is that while they're confident the show is solid, they don't want nitpicky Trekkies being the first to see it.

Question is, when do you think it will be screened for critics?
 
Albinator said:
I'm wondering why they aren't screening the first episode for fans at the show, and the only reason I can think is that while they're confident the show is solid, they don't want nitpicky Trekkies being the first to see it.

Question is, when do you think it will be screened for critics?
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Um, no - they still want BIG ratings for the initial CBS Network screening. If they showed the first episode at the Convention; advertisers would want lower rates because the episode would be 'out there' already, meaning the potential audience (for a variety of reasons) would be smaller.
 
Tuskin38 said:
How about they still want to keep the show mostly spoiler free until September?
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It is very common for a big show like this to show it's first episode at places like comic con, particularly when they appeal to that geek crowd.

Recent examples of this include Netflix's Defenders, The CW’s Riverdale, NBC’s Powerless, Fox's Lucifer and Minority Report, SyFy's The Expanse, as well as season premieres for Flash, Arrow, Fear The Walking Dead, and Outlander.

With Discovery's release date just about 2 months away, it would be a great gift to fans to screen the first episode at this show.

Yours of course is probably the reason they didn't... I was being somewhat sarcastic... but the real impetus of my post was to ask when we think they'll screen it for critics.

For example, Defender was screened... well, the first 4 episodes were screened... over a month before their release on Netflix. Wondering if CBS will do something similar.
 
Noname Given said:
Um, no - they still want BIG ratings for the initial CBS Network screening. If they showed the first episode at the Convention; advertisers would want lower rates because the episode would be 'out there' already, meaning the potential audience (for a variety of reasons) would be smaller.
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Disagree. Showing to one small audience at ST Las Vegas is not going to affect ratings negatively. If anything, if it gets good buzz from the screening, it would likely increase ratings.

The likely reason is simply that it's a bit too early, or they just want to wait, no reason needed.
 
Albinator said:
Disagree. Showing to one small audience at ST Las Vegas is not going to affect ratings negatively. If anything, if it gets good buzz from the screening, it would likely increase ratings.

The likely reason is simply that it's a bit too early, or they just want to wait, no reason needed.
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No - footage would leak to news services and online - and that would lessen the impact of the U.S. television premiere.
 
Albinator said:
I'm wondering why they aren't screening the first episode for fans at the show, and the only reason I can think is that while they're confident the show is solid, they don't want nitpicky Trekkies being the first to see it.
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The last movie premiered at a special event for Star Trek fans, which caused loads of positive buzz (but which didn't translate to huge financial success, unfortunately)
 
Noname Given said:
No - footage would leak to news services and online - and that would lessen the impact of the U.S. television premiere.
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Loads of other companies do it and it's a success for them. Good buzz is good buzz, leaked footage or not. In fact, leaked footage has been shown time and time again to increase positive awareness.
 
Noname Given said:
No - footage would leak to news services and online - and that would lessen the impact of the U.S. television premiere.
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Doesn't really matter though, they're not doing it... my real question was when we think it will be screened for critics.
 
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