What Does CBS All Access Have to Offer Besides Star Trek?

[Ssosmcin]

Well, if you can't get people in the theaters with one film every couple of years, throwing them MORE Star Trek always works.... back atcha.

 

[Christopher]

"Franchise fatigue" is a myth. When Enterprise was cancelled in 2005, the "franchise fatigue" theorists insisted that Star Trek would have to lie fallow for a generation before audiences were "ready" to be interested in it again. Four years later, the first Abrams movie was the biggest hit in the franchise's history. Audiences don't get fatigued by franchises, they just get fatigued by mediocre execution thereof. Bring in a fresh, new approach, execute it well, and the audience will come no matter how little time has passed.

 

[eyeresist]

I dunno, I think franchise fatigue is a thing. For most people, NEM was effectively where the Berman era stopped, and some of them didn't even get that far. So that's about 10 years before ST09.

 

[Christopher]

I dunno, I think franchise fatigue is a thing. For most people, NEM was effectively where the Berman era stopped, and some of them didn't even get that far. So that's about 10 years before ST09.

Yeah, but that's not franchise fatigue, it's Berman fatigue. The word "franchise," by definition, refers to the whole thing, to every incarnation of the property taken together. The franchise is Star Trek, all of it in every form, not just the part that Berman made. The idea behind the myth of franchise fatigue is that people were getting tired of any and all Star Trek, and that no Star Trek production of any kind could possibly interest a mass audience again until enough time had passed.