I'm not going to try and convince people to get CBS All Access, I'm just going to reiterate what I've said.
Principle: Out of some sort of misplaced loyalty to the Axanar fiasco where they caused fan films to come under scrutiny, or because of CBS "screwing" them for something or possibly even Paramount having the gall to successfully revive the franchise on film, some fans say they will not watch (or pay at least) for Discovery.
None of this matters. Studios exist to make money, studios also have copyrights. Fans don't own anything despite the self-entitlement that they do.
Creative: The standard issue complaint in social media. Other shows have real Trek fans making them, and neglect to pay attention to who's actually working on the show. Lots of Trekkies are working on DSC and Nick Meyer co-wrote the pilot.
Fuller himself pointed out this will be prime and a reimagining. Full stop. There were no mysteries, no misled Trekkies. This is exactly what we got.
Finally, the "paywall" itself.
I've gone to great length to post how people can save money if they have to afford the exorbitant cost of $24($1.60 per ep) for Discovery. By my count, the ways I've posted this can save $30-120 dollars. Even if you don't need to save this money, CBS is charging a pretty low price, just $1.60 per episode(Since you don't need to pay for Sept or Dec).
There is also a deal online if you buy the Fansets pin, you can still get a $25 digital credit on All Access. This can cover at least 3 concurrent months of the series for free (it will air over 6 concurrent months).
See, that was easy.
On to the complaining.
RAMA
1. The Axanar-issue is pretty much non-existent in the real world. NO casual viewer or even regular Trek fan that hasn't been on this very forum during the last year (which, TBH, why would they, with no new Trek around?) has ever heard of this thing. If DIS struggles or succeeds, it will be entirely on it's own terms (or, rather, on All-Access'-terms).
2. If something which we are used to get for free (television) is suddenly behind a singular, unique paywall,
without any further advantages (bad streaming-quality and advertisement breaks), people
WILL pirate it. Massively. That comes with the circumstances, and has to be accounted for by the money-counters. Game of Thrones is the most pirated show ever. And that's on HBO, which has tons of other neat stuff, and no advertisement. But it's still profitable.
Let's hope Star Trek get's pirated. A lot. Because that means
people actually watch it!
And more and more of those will want to do that in better quality - aka actually paying for it at some point, or buying merchandise. The ratings for GoT were rising and rising, with an all-times high at the moment, despite (or because?) it was able to become such a big pop-culture phenomenom -
because people actually watched it.
I first catched GoT on re-runs. If this new Trek series is not going to have re-runs on cable, it's going to be pretty much doomed by not finding an audience without piracy. Period.
I'm not advocating for something illegal. Just pointing out that this overall business-model, the splintering of content behind different paywalls, is unsustainable without other means of watching something.