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Will they go back to primeTrek after nuTrek finishes?.
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It seems CBS has no agenda beyond continuing to collect licensing revenue.
They don't own the rights to the popular movie version.
Great so we're in agreeance. Prime universe existing is important to CBS.
*sigh* ...The OP said IF we got Trek on TV, would it be prime or nutrek. I simply outlined why it makes more sense that IF it did return to TV, that it would most likely be Prime.
This isn't a prime vs. nutrek sweaty fanboy argument. This is simple copyright issues. Get over yourselves. nuTrek will never be on TV. IF, IF, IF Trek ever returns to TV, it will be either prime universe, or a re imagining of the prime universe.
Which doesn't answer the question.
Actually it does. read my whole post. If you still don't get it, I can't help you. Abramsverse begins and ends on the silver screen. That's business.
If anyone wants to actually legitimately refute my stance. Provide me with the information on how it is legally feasible for nuTrek to be on television. I welcome being proven wrong if it's the case. Saying "no" or saying "but it's popular", is not an argument. There's copyrights issues fellas. My understanding of the situation currently dictates that it is impossible for nuTrek to be on television. It's not legal. CBS has no incentive to bring nuTrek to television when they have their own universe they can continue, or reboot themselves with their own story; which doesn't require giving a cut to Paramount.
CBS owns Star Trek. They're free to do what they want with any version of Star Trek in any medium.
Yep. Even if an amount of money was paid to Bad Robot for their designs and such, Abrams is no stranger to TV.
Less of this, please. It adds nothing of value to the discussion and comes across as a bit condescending.
The ownership of Star Trek is complicated, at best. Easy some of the industry publications that I have read in an attempt to understand it don't know the full details of the relationship, beyond that CBS has television, merchandising and a lot of other rights, and Paramount can do movies.
The idea that CBS can't do anything with Star Trek is a simplistic argument. From an article at Trek Movie, who at least summarizes it nicely:
That is, in brief, and hardly indicative of the complex legal relationship CBS and Paramount has involving Star Trek. CBS has multiple links and interests in Star Trek as a brand, was was part of the limiting factor for Abrams when wanting to branch his films in to more mediums, like TV and books.
tl:dr It's complicated.
I wish Para-amount 
would drop Trek and hand it over to another place where they could grow and nurture it.
would drop Trek and hand it over to another place where they could grow and nurture it.
I wish Para-amount
Too much money at stake for them to do that.
Same reason CBS sits on the property, is because they make money with little effort.
Also, I found it amusing that reviewing promo materials from CBS for marketing Star Trek ID that the last page referenced the 50th in 2016.
I think CBS is fully aware of the promo opportunities for the 50th and is just waiting to avoid pulling the trigger prematurely, especially with Star Wars on the horizon.
For example, we have a fan doing a bona fide pitch to Paramount for a TV series. Huh? No details about how that works...
Interestingly, there has been zero news about it since one day of bluster, then startrekbeyond.com got reregistered and... nothing. Maybe the NDAs got signed.
Well, Paramount wouldn't be taking pitches for a TV series. More likely, they want to buy up the fan's previous domain name: "StarTrekBeyond.com".
It is to the point that they can collect money from it.
I don't think it will be either. It will be another reboot, especially if CBS decides to do their own Kirk and Spock show.
I would be inclined to agree with this point. CBS garners money by virtue of owning Star Trek, and it doesn't need to do more than that.
The press kit for ID that CBS released featured aspects of the entire franchises, from TOS to ID, and there is acknowledgement that the classic styling of TOS still garners then a lot of attention.
I think CBS would will consider the best bang for their buck when it comes to a new TV show, and that will likely be something fresh that they can present as something completely new.
No matter how hard I concentrate as a Star Trek fan on a Star Trek forum, "ID" always pops into my head as "Independence Day." Can we please keep it as "STID" for comprehension and disambiguation's sake?
"New TV show" as in NOT Star Trek? Or a completely new Star Trek like the fan pitch for Star Trek Uncharted (formerly Star Trek Beyond)?
New TV show as in new Star Trek, not Prime Trek or Abrams Trek.
Possibly like the fan pitch, but I honestly can see CBS taking a whole new design element and crafting something that is not beholden to any other series or events.
Sounds like his second statement pretty much confirms CBS owns Trek.
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