Untitled Star Trek - Discovery project

There are so so so many rules and regulations in place to stop this happening. Which is why it doesn’t.

 

What rules and regulations?

 

I believe that the wrath of Khan was actually produced by Paramounts television division.

 

The ones he made up.

 

I'd probably just laugh if they announce a Discovery movie. They can't be that stupid. Barely anyone will care.

 

Unless the movie is based on Discovery era Pike and the Enterprise, I really cant see a movie happening. Most seasons are one long movie anyway.

 

IATSE. SAG. MPAA. WGA. DGC. They’d all take issue, if you take a TV episode and then released it as a movie. For different reasons. For CW superhero shows, it’s this one.

For Star Trek and it’s supervising guilds and unions, I’d say unless CBS is prepared to go back and give everyone a pay rise up to movie rates for whatever episodes they convert into films, you won’t get TV episodes getting a theatrical release beyond special events. Crew rates for movies made in Ontario are significantly more than TV rates, which is why Hollywood movies don’t really get made there.

(I saw Sherlock and Game of Thrones finales in cinema, but they were just TV episodes shown in cinema as one-offs. Not movie edits.)

 

The crew for Star Trek: Discovery also know how to make films. The camera and lighting units are filming the new Roland Emmerich film Moonfall.

 

None of that really had anything to do with what I was talking about.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

C'mon, really?

 

@JoseNoodles
?? what? Okay.. Giina Virus..

 

Coronavirus or COVID-19 work just fine.

 

Covid-19

 

Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 virus..

 

Sounds about right.

 

I'm sure you spent all of 1 minute coming up with that. Give yourself a pat on the back for your hard work and finish that half-eaten snicker on your shirt. You know what, fuck it, lick the stain too. You deserve it. Just don't go too far down, not all the brown is chocolate.

I find it funny the working title of a Star Trek show would be the actual title of an older Star Trek show.

 

I think the older show has little brand value, so to have a 2nd series called exactly the same thing isn't an issue. "They've made a new season of Enterprise? Will the old characters appear?" is the extent of brand confusion, but the moment they see it's a show about the 1701 Enterprise with Spock in it, that confusion is gone, and it's only a small number of the audience that would get confused in the first place and not the target audience. For the vast majority of the audience, they likely never watched ENT in the first place.

 

@JoseNoodles actually looked it up so a few minutes.. Btw.. I can call it whatever I want.. As a nice personal middle finger to China.. Oh.. Also..Nice personal attack..

Back on subject..
Star Wars has a history of draging up old characters and stuff so why not star trek? Until it's anuonced we don't know what it'll be called

 

Somewhat archaic thinking there, given movies regularly go straight to streaming services these days, even award-winning ones

Now, people are free to take shots at INS, but that statement is whack haha.

Pure nonsense. CBS will not put a different show out in the public domain that carries the same name as ENT. Not a chance.

As far as the “vast majority of the audience” having not watched ENT, that’s also pure nonsense. By and large, these shows are mostly hitting existing Trek fans, which is why they’ve popped them behind a paywall to get some of that DTC dollar. And, quite frankly, ENT has viewing figures to its name that none of the current Trek shows will have ever achieve first run in North America, so to claim that the target audience will be unfamiliar with the show is pure rubbish.

In fact, I’d be very surprised if either Discovery or Picard are getting viewing figures in the US (in their first three days) that are significantly higher than what ENT was getting in its final two seasons.

Different world now, so expectations for success are different, but to try and make the claim that these new shows are being aimed at an audience that won’t have seen Enterprise is nuts.