Of course the defense of ME is that they throw in the disclaimer "these are only rumors". Despite that, they'll then go on "roundtable" discussions and keep bringing up those rumors as if they're undisputed facts.
Even if they do only for profit and views, there is something deeply wrong with these people. "Wait, have we really been talking for three hours about something we have no idea if it's true or not?!?" If you haven't asked yourself this question, maybe you should reflect on your life choices.
I'd tell the guy to just walk away from Star Trek altogether if it makes him that angry, but apparently his rants make him money. So he might as well spend the rest of his life succumbing to anger just so he can get by. What a loser.
In fact, he said he was done with Nu-Trek after the Terra Firma two-parter... was hopeful we would finally be rid of his ranting bullshit, but I guess he couldn't leave it alone after all.....
Saying he was done was as much a ploy as anything else. Because his rampant followers will be like "No, you can't leave." It's all a ridiculous game.
I had the same thought hours after the exchange and thought damnit missed opportunity. But also sometimes it's just not worth engaging it can only lead to madness.
There's also ... Even a blind Pig finds an acorn every once in a while. Which in this particular case, might be more apropos.
It still boggles the mind that people have been able to monetize on youtube stuff that weirdos like Paramobius did here for years for free
What I dislike the most is revisionism when it comes to the Berman era. I tried making that point with someone on twitter that even the Berman era was losing fans and that there were pretty vocal criticisms about how he ran the franchise back then, and this guy insisted I was wrong because "most fans love the Berman era", you know, in spite of the fact that the ratings were consistently slipping throughout the 90s and 2000s, with ENTERPRISE getting cancelled after losing 10 million viewers. But no, him and many other seem to have bought into this rose tinted narrative that the 1966-2005 years was a "golden era" for Trek.
Yeah, I'm sure they're crying all the way to the bank. ETA: Oops, @Enterprise is Great already made that point, sorry.
The current Star Trek is always hated and all the old stuff is loved. I guarantee you in twenty years, the current Star Trek will be hated and people will be nostalgic about the Kurtzman days. This is the Way.
I feel like most of the things said about Kurtzman and Discovery could be totally interchanged with things said about Berman and Enterprise. But sometimes it seems like I'm the only one who remembers how much people loathed Berman and Enterprise.
That's probably not going to happen, but if it did, I'd be quite happy to watch a show taking place during the Lost Years between TUC and TNG, with ship designs from the TMP era, and everybody wearing the monster maroons. But as I said, it's doubtful that will happen.