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Interesting report out by a company called antenna, abut the state of paid subscriber streaming companies. Nothing specific to Discovery but Paramount + is now up to 9% of the overall US paid subscriber streaming base, now in 4th place behind
Netflix at 30%
Hulu at 18%
Disney at 14%

This does not include free subscriptions

People seem surprised by Apple's growth from almost nothing In paid subscribers to 5%. But Apple is truly the one company that can absolutely play the long game. Hell just this year's profit could fully fund all US tv productions, with money to spare.

Another interesting fact since they have been tracking (roughly 5 quarters of streaming). CBS/ Paramount + (not including Showtime which is about 4% of the overall market) their services has seen growth in all but one of the last 5 quarters, with one quarter being flat. It's the only service that had trackable data for all 5 quarters that didn't have a single quarter with decline.
 
This seems like a huge mistake:

One Discovery crewmember, in particular, might take a bit more convincing: Anthony Rapp’s Paul Stamets, who spent Discovery’s third season finale being fired out of a tube by Michael in order to protect him (and his ability to power Discovery’s space-folding spore drive engine) at the cost of Paul being unable to go save his partner Hugh. But time and Starfleet professionalism, according to the actor, means that by the time Paul and Michael are eye-to-eye in the new season, things have changed between them, but for the better. “It was a moment of understandable incredible stress that we had, but—sometimes those moments mean as much as they mean in that moment,” Rapp teased. “Some time has passed, we’re at the beginning of season four and they’re both alive and well, so, I think that allows for some space to be around it—and a little bit of forgiveness. But there are little moments, little opportunities [for Stamets] to go ‘tsk tsk...I don’t always forget.’ But Paul and Michael have been through so much together. They have an enormous amount of love for each other, so, it just adds to the richness of the tapestry.”

So they're using the time skip to have Michael and Stamets just make up off camera? Why the hell set up their conflict in the Season 3 finale then?
 
Yeah, wouldn’t be my choice. But one of many Trek plot points that have been dropped along the way. I’ll get over it.
 
So they're using the time skip to have Michael and Stamets just make up off camera? Why the hell set up their conflict in the Season 3 finale then?
This too:
Any conflict that arises has nothing to do with the base of this relationship between these four people. And what I like is that I think the majority of that trust and just that intuitive, ‘Okay, we’re family now and we understand that and that’s not going to just break and go away.’ I think a lot of that work in process wasn’t done on screen. There was a break between the end of season three and the beginning of season four and I think that is when a lot of that really got cemented. It does feel that way coming into the new season, like ‘Okay, this is how it is now.’ And I really liked that it wasn’t necessarily on camera, it just happened.
I like that they're switching up the dynamics with season 4 but I feel a little cheated too. We could have had some good scenes of the 4 of them just hanging out and becoming closer or Paul working out his anger towards Michael with the help of Culber's counseling. Oh well, I'll still be watching anyway.
 
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Memory Alpha, which strives to be 100% accurate even with the caveat that anyone can edit it, lists 13 episodes, along with specific airdates, so I think we can safely assume that there are 13 episodes in the season.
 
Memory Alpha, which strives to be 100% accurate even with the caveat that anyone can edit it, lists 13 episodes, along with specific airdates, so I think we can safely assume that there are 13 episodes in the season.
What's their source for thirteen episodes?
 
^ They don't have any sources listed that I can find, but, as I said, they strive to be 100% accurate in the information they have on the site.
 
Striving for accuracy doesn’t mean that it is accurate though. As I suggested above, it’s an educated guess. One based on the number of episodes in season three which is a totally fair assumption until we get confirmation. But it ain’t 100% anything yet.
 
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