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.
Why is it "archaic thinking?" I didn't say it was bad or had anything to do with quality. I simply say it's not a "movie" if all it's going to be is a 2-hour presentation of a series that already in production and it won't be in theaters.
