Star Trek: Discovery

jayrebb said:

Maybe a potential plotline will be one of them taking issue with the color of someones shirt because its a color that was used by an ancient super-dominant race and stands for subjugation. Mmm this some gud major network TV slop!

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As long as the color is red...

jayrebb said:

Star Trek: Estrogen

Like the trailer didn't already indicate there was going to be a lot of raised voices, terse tones, and tears rolling on the ship. No more we've superseded social problems. We're talking subversive behavior among crew, jealous exes, and hissy fits over who's getting the next promotion.

Even the aliens seem to be full of drama and birth control tainted tap water. Maybe a potential plotline will be one of them taking issue with the color of someones shirt because its a color that was used by an ancient super-dominant race and stands for subjugation. Mmm this some gud major network TV slop!

Let me know when this franchise is sold off and deal with a premium cable television network. STARZ, FX, anything. Fuck I'll settle for A&E. SYFY holler at me.

#NotMyStarTrek

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Seems to be a large amount of women in this cast. I think the only way this works is to abandon Roddenberry's rule. Having that many women not be mean or cruel to each other would severly break my immersion. Good call imo.

Abefroman said:

Seems to be a large amount of women in this cast. I think the only way this works is to abandon Roddenberry's rule. Having that many women not be mean or cruel to each other would severly break my immersion. Good call imo.

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Isn't one of the women playing a tranny? You know to get the highest level of diversity? So at least xer shouldn't be so catty.

I have fears that they are trying shoehorn as much regressive ideology as they can into the star trek universe that it will completely ruin the IP.

Axxanar had more respect for IP, cannon and the universe than Enterprise and Discovery have put together- it also most likely harmed the studio more than "protecting" their property did.

I'd rather see the IP go to Netflix over Disney. I mean you can have a show like Stanger Things that can capture the look and feel of the 80s, how hard would it be to deck out a crew in post Undiscovered Country costumes and fill the gap to TNG?

netflix reportedly already paid more of the outside the usa rights than show is going to cost.

wonder how much trek is worth, don't see anything online, but heard it like 1/5 or less than of SW


they need to get beyond the current timeline, if they are going to abandon roddenberry's ideas, might as well blow up the federation and rebuild from the ground up.

Disney got SW super cheep though. Paramount wouldn't give ST away like Lucas did. Reminds me of Mario Lopez when he was promoting his Candy Crush show, he said CC sold for more than Star Wars, so it's obviously more popular than SW. What a moron.

You're right though, they're not going to sell ST so it's just wishful thinking. But we can daydream can't we?

The Discovery budget is reportedly $6-7m/episode, so figure a total of $80-90m for season 1. Netflix spent $120m on two seasons of the crown, $150m (i think) on one season of The Get Down, $100m+ per season of House of Cards, etc so them spending $60-100m for the rights to one season of a new Star Trek show for all overseas markets isn't that insane, especially since its probably going to drive a lot of new subs for the first year at least. Its a lot easier justifying "finally getting Netflix" if you wanna watch Star Trek and then all the other shows they have, than it is justifying getting CBS Access for ... Star Trek and the new Good Wife spinoff show.

Paramount is owned by Viacom (Comedy Central, MTV) and they actually tried to sell a 50% stake for $2b back in 2016, but they cancelled it six months later. Disney "only" paid $4b for Lucas so a $4-5b Paramount acquisition isn't out of the picture, I just don't see that much interest in them for now since they don't really need Star Trek in theme parks, toys, cartoon shows, etc since it would mostly just compete against their existing Star Wars plans. Its more likely a Chinese company would buy Paramount. Wanda (china) bought Legendary Pictures for $3.5b back in 2016.

Dare I say it but I would trust SYFY with the Star Trek IP. Wouldn't have said that several years ago but they turned that shit around.