Picard Budget

[Go-Captain]

I remember reading Picard is the most expensive Star Trek ever at $8-9 million but where did the money go? I ask because Discovery's two seasons are far more polished and lavish looking, and everything is obviously made from scratch for the show. Picard isn't bad looking as a whole, it has a couple good CG scenes, sets, and props but it took obvious shortcuts not required of DIS.

Did all the money go to location shooting and paying Patric Stewart, or is this a symptom of a rushed time table for the whole show, not just the finale? Or am I misinterpreting the cost of certain scenes or whole episodes?

 

[Random_Spock]

I'm thinking paying actors, probably who you mentioned, Brent Spiner, etc.. Maybe the effects they wanted to use cost more, maybe it was rushed like you mentioned.

 

[Lord Garth]

I have a feeling they made up the difference of having these actors by cutting episode count from 13 down to 10.

 

[DEWLine]

Also, set design and construction. They've done a two-story standing set with La Sirena alone...and that, they're expecting to use for at least two more years.

 

[TRON JA307020]

I remember reading Picard is the most expensive Star Trek ever at $8-9 million but where did the money go? I ask because Discovery's two seasons are far more polished and lavish looking, and everything is obviously made from scratch for the show. Picard isn't bad looking as a whole, it has a couple good CG scenes, sets, and props but it took obvious shortcuts not required of DIS.

Did all the money go to location shooting and paying Patric Stewart, or is this a symptom of a rushed time table for the whole show, not just the finale? Or am I misinterpreting the cost of certain scenes or whole episodes?

But those miniature Christmas light strewn throughout some of the sets were so expertly hung. Ugh they were terrible.

 

[Kpnuts]

The money definitely didn't go towards fly-throughs of the Borg cube.
And you can't compare season 1 of a show with season 2.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Disco's helm chair may have been a spinning hot seat, but everyone who sat in it had experience producing television. Picard was helmed by a novelist with very little experience in cinema.

 

[DEWLine]

Surrounded by people who do have that experience. Chabon had able help at every step, and a lead actor comfortable working with him so far as I can see.

 

[RAMA]

Picard went over budget, but certainly, the intent was to bring it under Discovery's budget, probably at $7 million per episode (pattern budget). They got a $15 million tax credit from California, but even with this, they probably averaged 1st season Discovery money.

RAMA