Hell, one of the officers at the briefing at that start of that movie actually thinks making peace with the Klingons means Starfleet will be disbanded until someone else points out "science and exploration is still a thing we do."
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“Mothballing the Star Fleet” (including the two-word pronunciation approach) will forever be one of the oddest lines in the franchise to me, haha. I get what they’re going for, and it is immediately refuted, but the sheer mental vision of such a Federation decision is so damn funny.
The creators retconned Starfleet into being non-military based on the primary mission of Kirk's Enterprise being exploratory for a five-year period. Since the supposed format of the series and movies revolved around that ship, they could get away with it.
I think maybe Starfleet Security is suppose to focus on the military aspects. While other departments focus on the exploration and science. Then you got the ambassadors and politicians that focus on creating colonies, trade deals etc. The Captain is then suppose to sort of wear multiple hats where he or she is sometimes a Solider when they need to be and a explorer when they need to be.
Yeah Balthazar Edison wasn't happy with the non soldier hats
And they seem to forget OTHER enemies (Romulans et al.) still exist and pose a threat.
Luminate has released ratings that include the first week of Season 3 episode with
Strange New World being 10th and with 249.2 million minutes watched.
Note Luminate does its ratings in a different manner than Nielsen and can have wildly different results (In some cases significantly higher some significantly lower). One difference is Luminate only bunches ratings by season, not by series. Nielsen groups its streaming ratings by full series. But even with those limitations the numbers can be wildly different (as you can see series that are only one season have wildly different results) between the two companies.
As Luminate has only been releasing information for right over two years. Discovery's final season and Section 31 are the only Trek related programming that would have been possible to Track. Both tracked higher on Nielsen's reports. In fact discovery never Tracked and could have on 5 different weeks with ratings ranging from 151 to 181 million minutes. Those weeks include all but one of the weeks it Tracked on Nielsen with between 80, to a 100 million more views per Nielsen's charts.
So don't think you can compare apples to apples between the two companies.
Strange New World being 10th and with 249.2 million minutes watched.
Note Luminate does its ratings in a different manner than Nielsen and can have wildly different results (In some cases significantly higher some significantly lower). One difference is Luminate only bunches ratings by season, not by series. Nielsen groups its streaming ratings by full series. But even with those limitations the numbers can be wildly different (as you can see series that are only one season have wildly different results) between the two companies.
As Luminate has only been releasing information for right over two years. Discovery's final season and Section 31 are the only Trek related programming that would have been possible to Track. Both tracked higher on Nielsen's reports. In fact discovery never Tracked and could have on 5 different weeks with ratings ranging from 151 to 181 million minutes. Those weeks include all but one of the weeks it Tracked on Nielsen with between 80, to a 100 million more views per Nielsen's charts.
So don't think you can compare apples to apples between the two companies.
They were great as a mystery threat in "Q Who", and have never felt that sinister ever since, even in the generally overrated "Best of Both Worlds".
Exactly. At least horses still exist in that century on Earth--as opposed to dune buggies in the 24th century. That was patently absurd (but Stewart was going to get his way, no matter how the idea was out of place in Star Trek), and just one that film's numerous problems.
Disagree. They were genuinely great and terrifying in the ENT episode Regeneration.
It's shocking how much that episode got right, considering most of the other times ENT focused on memberberries from the TNG era it was just awful.
As you’ve said, it’s not apples-to-apples. This is still an interesting data point, though, so I appreciate your posting it!
Hmm. It’s tough to gauge this. 249.2 million minutes is pretty good, but it would be factoring two episodes into the equation, rather than one. Not everyone will have watched both of the new episodes within the first week, but I have to imagine that most will have done so by now. Beyond just that, each Nielsen week will be cumulative as a season goes on; Picard’s series finale struck the (damned good) 400-million estimate on Nielsen, but that wasn’t just from “The Last Generation”, of course. There might have been folks watching the last three, four, perhaps all ten third-season episodes in that week!
It’s fascinating just how dramatically the numbers can morph between Luminate’s practice and Nielsen’s more familiar one, but at least in that sense they aren’t totally at-odds in methodology. Still, I’d be willing to bet that “Hegemony, Part 1” got a lot of playback in season three’s premiere week, but we don’t see its impact here, thanks to Luminate’s apparent practices? (We did see SNW pop up on Nielsen a couple of weeks ago, however - doubtless due to rewatches in the lead-up to the premiere!)
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And it'll be free to watch for a week on all platforms. So hopefully we might get a subscriber drop early - didn't we get that for Season 2 with Subspace Rhapsody?
We got it for Those Old Scientists.
Muppets!
It's no goofier than "Those Old Scientists," in which characters we'd previously seen only as stylized animation turned into three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood characters for one episode of a series that wasn't even their own. This will work if the story is good and fail if it's bad, not because there are puppets.
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