Star Trek Discovery was a huge success for them in building their streaming service. Picard will probably be very successful too. Their whole streaming business model is built around these shows. I can’t imagine why they would sell them to another service.
They had like 3 million subscribers until Picard came out. That's like 1 million more than Shudder and Crunchyroll. Basically the only reason to get this service is if you want to watch new Start Trek content and it shows. Agree they are building their platform on it but I'd hardly consider it a wild success at this point.
I've always been a Star Trek fan who loathes Trekkies.
TNG and DS9 are among the best TV series of any kind, not just Star Trek, and basically universally hated by Trekkies upon release.
Disagree, I think that trekkies were the original ones and in the Roddenberry spirit were more open to the new series. Trekkers as they came to be known were bandwagon jumpers and the purists. Just my 2 cents worth as I believe I am a trekkie.
I think with Sonic it wasn't some die hard base of Sonic fans going nuts as much as a horrible design choice going viral. I didn't see much anger, just a lot of people relentlessly making fun of it. It made for some great memes.So you think the people who hated TNG immediately weren't fans of the original series but rather just sci fi nerds who had seen a few episodes or movies and didn't like change? I can see that.
I work in licensed toys and I can tell you from my circle of colleagues working in licensed toys and games that Star Trek is one of the harder audiences to please. If you weren't familiar with the recent Sonic the Hedgehog movie freakout I was right in the middle of that as a toy developer, nobody saw such a rabid fan reaction coming. To your point I don't think most of these "Sonic fans" were even real fans, just nerdy nitpickers. Of course they had a valid point in that case.
They had like 3 million subscribers until Picard came out. That's like 1 million more than Shudder and Crunchyroll. Basically the only reason to get this service is if you want to watch new Start Trek content and it shows. Agree they are building their platform on it but I'd hardly consider it a wild success at this point.
OK, I for one really liked Discovery. I thought it was the best they've done. Next Generation was good, but I can't tell if that was more looking back nostalgia or if it was really good. Did not really watch Voyager or Enterprise. DS9 was OK. Picard, I thought the pilot was OK. He's kind of old to do much and there wasn't much for action in the episode. I almost feel like they are going the Star Wars route of pulling in as much nostalgia for TNG as possible to hook people in. Like, people want so badly for it to be good that they convince themselves that it was...I was like that for pretty much all of the new SW movies. I'll definitely keep watching though.
For my money, Battlestar Galactica blows anything Trek has done out of the water with the exception of Wrath of Khan.
For my money, Battlestar Galactica blows anything Trek has done out of the water with the exception of Wrath of Khan.
Mild spoilers...
I don't get why the population of Mars is so low in this series.
When the "synths" attacked Mars and the orbiting installations, apparently about 90,000 people died. From the footage of the attack that has been shown several times across the first three episodes, almost the entire surface of the planet was destroyed. Even if "only" 1/4 of the population died, that means the whole population of Mars, just prior to the 25th century, is about 400,000 people? Elon Musk wants to put a million people on Mars by 2050, and if his Starship is successful he just might do it.