Both are far away from being a worldwide super popular hit series, so their cultural impact is and will remain zero. A series needs to be watched by everyone in masses and not just scifi fans to have a chance to leave an impact. I think nowadays this is really hard to achieve for any series as there are so many series airing at the same time. Series of the 50s, 60s and 70s had it much, much easier as there was far less competition.
Will Discovery have more impact on the culture than DS 9?
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Yes and no. Seriously, I have no idea what cultural impact DS9 had, so I'll just stick with a vague answer which covers all bases.
It has been in syndication, available on DVD and is now streaming over the course of twenty years. If its cultural impact hasn't hit by now, that means it has none. Why would Blu-ray, which is a very limited format, somehow change that? It would simply be bought up by people who already love the show.
The best thing to happen to DS9 was streaming. Now, if someone wants to get into Star Trek, they don't see one Star Trek series, they see a bunch of Star Trek series. So, if they embark, DS9 is just another one of them. "I'm on DS9 now!"
This will eventually happen with DSC too, as it becomes more readily available. It'll just be one of a bunch. The only difference is, it won't take 20 years.
Star Trek is kind of like Doctor Who. Except instead of changing Doctors, they change series.
This will eventually happen with DSC too, as it becomes more readily available. It'll just be one of a bunch. The only difference is, it won't take 20 years.
Star Trek is kind of like Doctor Who. Except instead of changing Doctors, they change series.
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I'd say DS 9's cultural impact was virtually nonexistent, consider that it is not in reruns at the moment, unlike TNG and VOY, which fill almost every hour on BBC America, suggesting, there's no perceived market for it, no significant thought given to it.
DISC's will be less, certainly given that it is sequestered in a ghetto, a viewer must consciously seek it out, pay for it and if they missed the debut on CBS, it is a blind buy one has to be motivated, to seek out, a sidebar,I was thinking about the absence of Babylon 5 from the new digital subchannels, like Comet, and, realized that no matter its perceived quality, the show had come and gone like a ripple in the sea, B5 fandom is a subset of a subset, DS9's cultural impact is only fractionally larger and only as a parasitic effect of its association with TNG. I think DISC is doomed to be by and large an afterthought, as long as it remains sequestered, it may well never reach a large enough audience to become a self-sustaining part of the public consciousness, (Barring some marked up tick in quality, and an accompanying word of mouth, pulling more eyes to it
DISC's will be less, certainly given that it is sequestered in a ghetto, a viewer must consciously seek it out, pay for it and if they missed the debut on CBS, it is a blind buy one has to be motivated, to seek out, a sidebar,I was thinking about the absence of Babylon 5 from the new digital subchannels, like Comet, and, realized that no matter its perceived quality, the show had come and gone like a ripple in the sea, B5 fandom is a subset of a subset, DS9's cultural impact is only fractionally larger and only as a parasitic effect of its association with TNG. I think DISC is doomed to be by and large an afterthought, as long as it remains sequestered, it may well never reach a large enough audience to become a self-sustaining part of the public consciousness, (Barring some marked up tick in quality, and an accompanying word of mouth, pulling more eyes to it
Being on "CBS All Actions But Here's a Load of Commercials Despite Your Paying For It" certainly doesn't help matters...
And not 100% rights to everything Trek, which allegedly explains the big change to the Enterprise's appearance (which is rather a fantastic design, but that's beside the point) and other issues that hecklers like Doomcock love to crow on and on about.
Vger23 also said it best, DS9 (and Voyager and Enterprise) all had zero impact, which is sad because DS9 is my favorite Trek show apart from TOS as well IMHO. But DSC/STD/DISCO/JUMBLEDMESS/etc is too busy playing with fanservice as well as merry-go-round for production staff to really do something, but who knows what season 2 will bring.
With luck it'll be the impetus to get a remastering done for HD streaming (which, despite my whiny nitpicky pedantics, is still sharper than SD) and I'd be there on day one for blu-ray purchase as well.
CBS said that was false and that they own the TOS designs.
The difference was probably just for marketing and modern updating, so they could sell new mech with it under a new name.
They may own the designs, but they already have licensees who sell TOS merchandise. So the 25% difference likely has something to do with how they can license a Discovery Enterprise without violating the terms of prior agreements.
I edited my post to say that.
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