I am totally non-plussed that I won’t get to watch after the 1st episode…why oh why would the suits think this is okay…“karma gonna get you”…that is all I can say!!!
Obviously, they’re hoping that enough people are big enough Star Trek fans that they’ll subscribe to yet another streaming service just to watch this show. I hope they are very disappointed.
I might have subscribed , But I live in a very VERY rural area ,I had to buy my own power poles, so…streaming services don’t work with my iffy (and expensive) Wi-Fi service…so there you have it… I am dead in the water…so to speak
The Hollywood Reporter says that the CBS All Access service currently has two million subscribers and “the current goal is to reach 4 million subscribers by 2020”. The article also says that each episode costs six to eight million bucks. Now, they’ve sold Canadian rights to Bell and to Netflix for everywhere else.
But I don’t see how this makes sense. Looking at the broadcast ratings for the week of April 24-30 (chosen more or less at random from the last season), the show listed at 25th in the ratings had 5.4 million viewers.
So even if every single CBS All Access customer watches this show, its viewership would still be beaten by America’s Funniest Home Videos.
Exactly!!!
It’s because ratings aren’t really the goal, the goal is for CBS to grow its fledgling streaming service with more paying subscribers. In the long run, that’s much more valuable to CBS. And a property like Star Trek with a rich history and a built-in fanbase provides an excellent opportunity to grow those numbers. In theory, anyway. You can bet the Orions will be out in full force pirating the shit out of Discovery.
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looking back, I see you answered your own question in your post before the one you asked it in. Fascinating.
But…why can’t they just be nice…and let all us poor ,sappy,pitiful trekkies just have a freebie once in awhile ? It just not fair! Don’t they realize I ain’t got no life…
Quite writing your posts in Vulcan. 
Oh my gosh. I swear I wasn’t drunk when I posted that.
Have you disengaged the external inertial dampener?
Their goal of four million customers by 2020 seems modest. That’s not a lot. Perhaps the clue is in the name. It’s not CBS Streaming but instead CBS All Access. (Note that I have no idea if what I’m suggesting is what they intend.) Perhaps the idea is to offer stuff other than just streaming new, existing and past CBS shows. Are you a big fan of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? How would you like show tickets and perhaps a VIP tour, perhaps including a meet and greet with Stephen Colbert? Want to sit in the audience at The Price is Right? They’ll get you tickets, although they can’t guarantee you’d be selected as a contestant. They could do special experiences for fans of The Big Bang Theory or NCIS. Perhaps a drawing among CBS All Access members for an expense-paid trip to Los Angeles to watch one of these shows being filmed and tour the studio. Enough of that stuff and even I would be interested. Of course this stuff is easier to sell when CBS is doing well in the rating and has the hot shows. Less so when it’s got a crappy lineup.
What’s that half-empty bottle of Saurian Brandy doing on your desk? 
Clearly he needs to reverse the polarity of his Cable Box.
So this is the bridge: - YouTube
They probably spent millions building it. I don’t like the giant blue touch screens all over the place. I think they should have went old school and built something simple like TOS. I wish all of the money they are pouring into sets and CGI would have been spent on getting the best writers and actors. Having lots of fancy graphics for raising and lowering the shields doesn’t help if the story sucks.
I want to know how they are going to explain the beauty and complexity of the new set with the clunkiness of the TOS set, which is 10 years in their future.
There’s no reason they ever have to mention that. And just think; if this show lasts long enough and moves in real time, it will overlap with the original show. If they’re clever, they can reference events on the original series without showing anything about it.
If that is a valid complaint it is just as valid in the absence of this new show. It simply isn’t conceivable that a society 400 years in the future had such chintzy looking equipment. It isn’t realistic just wandering around looking at the present day. Heck, it probably wasn’t actually realistic in the sixties too. The presence or lack thereof of this new show doesn’t change anything. It isn’t just the disjointed technical progress, it is the fact that it is terribly unlikely that every planet you transport to is a nice little area surrounded by paper mache boulders. The effects just don’t hold up, and there isn’t anything you can do about that.
My refrain: This is fiction, not a fake documentary. What your seeing is just a representation of ideas in a story. It’s not meant to be taken literally.
So there’s absolutely no reason for them to ever mention it. I wish that “Enterprise” had never mentioned the whole deal with the Klingon makeup.
Well, you could sidestep the whole problem easily by not making any more “prequel” series/movies. It’s kind of bizarre that Star Trek, a show originally premised on exploring the future, has become so firmly fixated on its own past.
Exactly.
Just jump into the future of the future. Far enough ahead that everybody from previous shows is long dead. That could give you a reboot without having to reboot.
They tried that for Next Gen and the future sucked. We got wimpy Wesley Crusher, Deanna Troi sensing emotions and Whoopi Goldberg wearing weird hats.