"It will only be available to stream on CBS All Access"
Initially. Eventually we'll all get to see it ;)
.I'd be surprised if it is bad, I won't be surprised if we have to endure the usual tropes, especially where combat is concerned, like missing a target 5 meters away, security reacting so slow so enemies can overpower them etc.
Can't be as bad as Fear the walking dead though.
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Eventually we'll all get to see it ;)
Do you mean via Netflix, or freely online, or eventually it will be available on regular network TV (at least in most countries)?
Actually, I missed the wink. Maybe you just meant that chances are, after the show is over, they'll release it on some kind of free medium.
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True, but since most of the revenue for this series is supposed to come from their streaming service, it doesn't bode well for future seasons and their overall business model.
Star Trek was always built on a syndication model, and it's largely why such a niche show found an audience.
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wow. um. so much I could say, but won't.
Basically, everyone is trying to promote their streaming service. These days, content is key. It's why HBO is the behemoth that it is. Showtime does well because of their original series, and Netflix has locked in their userbase with a few must-see shows. Everyone else is trying to break into it. Unfortunately, most will fail, because there's not enough room for that many streaming services.
CBS is bringing out the "big guns" here, pushing hard to create an audience, and maybe it will work, but probably not. If they succeed, they'll keep Star Trek to themselves for a few years, same as HBO does. If they fail, hopefully Star Trek will find a new home on a different station
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well, yeah. Except for the change in business model from syndication to streaming. I think HBO or Netflix or Showtime is the perfect place for "premium" shows. Syndication is an outdated revenue model and works better for cheaper content (hence the plethora of "reality" shows). If Star Trek would be on HBO no one would bat an eyelid about it.
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Yeah sadly syndication is no longer a viable option for a show like Trek. Hell, they don't even show the old series on reruns anymore, except BBC America running TNG and, recently, TOS.
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I'd say that's an awesome PBS station rather than crappy, then. One in my old city used to show original Doctor Who.
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They also show M.A.S.H
It would be awesome, if the video quality was acceoysble... by 1990s standards
The broadcast is very poor quality. Like they haven't upgraded their technology since, well, ever
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Guess people need to donate more during those fundraisers. Seems like my local station runs them monthly.
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It will only be available to stream on CBS All Access
I saw it listed on Netflix (NZ) as something to add to list when checking what they had available for Star Trek since my parents are fans. Listed as Netflix exclusive or whatever they call it. Then again, could just be a region thing.
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Most countries around the world will get ST:D (man, I only realized what the acronym was when I wrote it down just now, that's hilarious) on Netflix. As far as I'm aware, only the US and Canada will have it stream elsewhere.
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CBS has announced that the preferred acronym is DSC (mostly do to the massive amount to jokes)
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Well, I liked Enterprise and I'm waiting to see this series. As a Hungarian I won't have much choice to watch it; I didn't check Netflix yet, but maybe there will be a channel which will air it...
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Well, I'd rather have them go on with the story after Nemesis. We already had a lot of continuity issues with Enterprise (i.e. it turned out they've already encountered and defeated the Borg, but no one rememebered that later in TNG), and adding more won't help...
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It was continued in Star Trek Online. I'm not sure if it is canon, but it is reviewed by Paramount and CBS if I remember well.
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It's "soft canon", like the books and other Star Trek media, but not "official canon". Also, it's videogame-driven, so it pretty much forces conflict upon conflict because in videogames you shoot at things, and they have to invent a new conflict/enemy every 6 months to keep things fresh. In 2 or 3 ingame years since the game released, the Federation was involved in at least 20 wars with pretty much every species they met, encouraging the players to shoot and destroy everything they don't know or understand, that is definitely not Trekkish at all.
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STO takes a lot of liberties and makes a lot of changes that probably wouldn't be too popular in the tv/movie canon.Especially breaking the Klingon-Federation Alliance. I completely understand why they did it in-game in order to have enough factions, but in-universe it doesn't make a lot of sense with the aftermath of DS9.
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Almost exactly how I feel. Even though Nicolas Meyer (director of the even-numbered TOS movies) is a writer and they have some other crew with good backgrounds, I don't know why they're so intent on "reinventing the wheel" as it were.
Supposedly since this first season is serialized it may mean we'll see other stories told in other centuries.
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No. Just no. I like Star Trek a lot and I'd hate to see this one go straight down the shitter. From what I've seen and read, that's the direction it's going.
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Voyager, anyone? Enterprise was garbage... The last two Next Generation movies were crap too. I did like the reboot movies, though.
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VOY is uneven overall,but it did have some really stand-out episodes. ENT was awful, true, but completely different people are involved.
I actually am probably one of the few people who enjoyed Insurrection; it's the only Trek movie that felt like an extended episode of the show and reinforced what Trek was about at its core.
Nemesis was...uniquely bad.Although as someone who has always disliked Romulans, I loved seeing them get utterly owned.
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Yep, though Insurrection was underestimated, it was "real" Star Trek. Nemesis is kind of TNG's take on Wrath of Khan (Shinzon was a "personal" enemy/villain to Picard, something you don't see often in Star Trek), but it didn't deliver properly. Awesome combat sequences though.
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Agreed on the latter, even if it did contribute to the most stupidly OP ship in STO:pDamn Rommy Scimitars!
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Just to clarify something: most countries will get the series on Netflix
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That's the beauty of Trek canon though; unlike a lot of other properties, it is all about the shows and movies(except nu/Kelvin-timeline movies) and you don't need to know obscure details or about background character #142 unless you want to. (Admittedly, some of us want to:P)
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As if Netflix in Canada didn't suck enough already. And they wonder why so many Canadians are using a VPN (I think that's the name for it) to get the American version? The reason is that the Canadian Netflix is pretty crappy.
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I didn't like the direction the movies went into, if the series are more the same then no, if it's different, then i'll just have to wait and see first, they will probably focus more on the kids of this era and make it cool rather then the essence of what they used to be about.
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I should have said: It will be set in the Prime Timeline (aka not JJ-TREK)
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Welp! It looks like I won't get a chance to watch this. I don't have any streaming services, nor do I want any streaming services. I guess I can get it on DVD if it even does well enough to warrant a release.
A shame, as I would like to watch a new Star Trek series.
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Do you meant by sneaky fashion? Or just that it may take a while, but it will end up airing on regular channels (if it lasts long enough). Sorry if I am kind of sounding dense...I just woke up a few minutes ago. LOL!
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We'll have to get Quark or Garak to rig up something for us to fool Odo into thinking we're not watching the security feeds:P
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I loved the back and forth between Quark and Odo. Ended up being close friends, something you wouldn't have expected at the start of the series!
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Good its not the Kelvin Timeline... i hate that..would be better to see a series playing after Voyager and DS9 time..but i guess its easier for them showing the past..cause they don*t have to show so much future tech etc.... ^^
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I agree on both counts. Though I don't think "future tech" is a reason to be concerned considering these things:
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By now we know some details:
It will be set between Star Trek:Enterprise and Star Trek:The Original Series
It will be set in the Prime Timeline (aka not JJ-TREK)
It will be serialized storytelling, that is, one story told over 13 episodes
It will feature a black female Lieutenant Commander as the protagonist rather than a Captain
It will only be available to stream on CBS All Access. It will be behind a paywall with commercials.I am afraid that we may be saying goodbye to ST:Discovery before we ever get a chance to know it, with those factors.
The good news is that it seems to carry on Star Trek's tradition of a progressive, hopeful anti-dystopian future which is badly needed in a landscape of staid, desperately boring dystopic science fiction. To say nothing of our own current world.The bad news is the above-mentioned paywall, the fact that once again it is set in ST's distant past, and that it will be a very different kind of Star Trek series. I think it could work, and am cautiously optimistic.
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