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Was Star Trek one of Hollywood's greatest losers of 2025?

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The Hollywood Reporter apparently ends a year with list of the biggest winners and losers in entertainment...

In order, the greatest losers are: Paramount (after almost all film releases this year lost money, losing Taylor Sheridan, the Skydance / Trump / Warners drama), Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni (no idea on this one), and then... Star Trek!

The sci-fi franchise is approaching 60 years old and sure feels like it. Paramount+’s Section 31 movie tanked (a 16 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes). The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was meh (dropping sharply from prior seasons to a 53 percent audience score). The only person who sounds excited for the upcoming Gen Z-targeted Starfleet Academy is recurring guest star Paul Giamatti (one wag on YouTube wrote the show’s trailer looked like “TikTok space prom”). Sure, a new Trek movie is in the works (from the writer-directors of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves), but c’mon, do you care?
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Star Trek is even ranked before the Sydney Sweeney drama over her eugenics jean ad...

Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, and Variety are all owned by the same company, and have been quite supportive of Kurtzman in past years.
 
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Aaaagh I was hoping for some of the much-elusive concrete metrics at last, but it's just the article author ragging on how naff all the shows are.

The plummeting audience score is definitely an indicator, at least.
 
I can't argue with the article. 2025 wasn't a good year for Star Trek.

Section 31 was a huge disappointment. Don't need to go into that again. I skipped SNW Season 3 entirely. When even some people who like the show admit this season wasn't as good, it's not exactly sending a message to me that I should check it out. What else? I've been pretty neutral on the clips and trailers from SFA. There was more fire in me in a post sticking up for TOS. With SFA it's been, "That part's okay, I don't know about that part, well, I guess we'll see... "

On the other hand: Unlike the person who wrote that article, I'm not going to write off the upcoming Star Trek movie. I'm not familiar with the new creative team at all. But that's still not the same as "I can't wait to see it!" I'd like a little more information first, before I can even start to form an opinion one way or the other. "But c’mon, do you care?", the article asks. Well, I'll put if this way: if it doesn't materialize, then not the end of the world.
 
Oh please. Star Trek's 2025 content might not be amongst the franchise's best, but it's hardly the franchise's worst year ever. Nor is it any worse other forms of entertainment released in 2025. If anything, 2025 seems to have been a rather lackluster year for the entertainment industry in general.
 
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Oh please. Star Trek's 2025 content might not be amongst the franchise's best, but it's hardly the franchise's worst year ever. Nor is it any worse other forms of entertainment released in 2025. If anything, 2025 seems to have been a rather lackluster year for the entertainment industry in general.
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Sadly, that's too nuanced a position to generate headlines and outrage. Everything has to be the worst ever of all time, even if it really isn't. That's why I tend to ignore articles like this because they're at best confirmation bias, and at worse, enragement bait.
 
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Oh please. Star Trek's 2025 content might not be amongst the franchise's best, but it's hardly the franchise's worst year ever. Nor is it any worse other forms of entertainment released in 2025. If anything, 2025 seems to have been a rather lackluster year for the entertainment industry in general.
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Please stay tuned to Chicken Little Radio for more sky is falling news.
 
I actually found Section 31 to be unoffensive. :shrug:

As for Strange New Worlds Season 3, I personally really enjoyed much of it. I have only skipped 1 episode per season since Season 2 aired, but both were due to personal taste and not because they were objectively BAD. I've said it before now and I'll say it again: SNW goes from, "Okay, that was a nice episode!" to "OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW IT'S MY ALL TIME FAVORITE THING EVER" so fast I sometimes get whiplash. I bawled my eyes out at the ending of the Ortegas and the Gorn episode, and barring the rising of the Enterprise-D from the dead in PICARD Season 3, that has never happened in my adult life when watching a movie or TV episode. Sure, I'll tear up. But never to the extreme of uncontrollable sobbing. I feel emotions with SNW I don't feel anywhere else, except in my particularly lucid dreams.

Scouts looks cute! I'm not the target audience, but no one who isn't has any room to talk, now then, do they?

I have yet to listen to the KHAN podcast. It sure sounds cool, though!

Overall, I'd compare 2025 to 1998 in Trek. Was it the best time to be a trekkie? Probably not. But it sure as hell wasn't the worst (I'd nominate the mid 2000s for that spot).
 
A lot of criticism of modern Trek is unfair or over the top, but this is hard to argue against.

S31 was very negatively received, SNW S3 was much less favourably viewed than previous seasons and there is little interest for Starfleet Academy. As to a new Trek film, there have been so many false starts over the years that it's hard believe that this one will get off the ground.

There were a few bright spots - the Khan radio play was decent, and a Voyager game was surprisingly announced, but it was a bad year for Trek.
 
Unionized Elf said:
Oh please. Star Trek's 2025 content might not be amongst the franchise's best, but it's hardly the franchise's worst year ever. Nor is it any worse other forms of entertainment released in 2025. If anything, 2025 seems to have been a rather lackluster year for the entertainment industry in general.
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The issue is what's happening now--not looking back. The franchise is a moment away from being 60 years old, and no one in their right mind can say its producing its strongest content to date, so the future looks bright and/or current Trek remains the pop cultural lion arguably last seen in the 1980s.
 
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James Cole said:
The Hollywood Reporter apparently ends a year with list of the biggest winners and losers in entertainment...

In order, the greatest losers are: Paramount (after almost all film releases this year lost money, losing Taylor Sheridan, the Skydance / Trump / Warners drama), Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni (no idea on this one), and then... Star Trek!


Star Trek is even ranked before the Sydney Sweeney drama over her eugenics jean ad...

Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, and Variety are all owned by the same company, and have been quite supportive of Kurtzman in past years.
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I think there's something to this, yeah.

"It's not as bad as all that because I liked some of it" isn't much of a counterpoint, really.
 
While Enterprise Season 5, 6 and 7 would've been preferable, 2006-8 at least gave us remastered HD Original Series which I seem to recall was a big deal at the time... even if the CG FX swiftly started to date as a bit cartoonish in places. And it's unfortunate that version has become the default one for streaming services.
 
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