I miss that desperately. And I say this as someone who, by and large, has really enjoyed NuTrek.

It’s interesting to compare modern “Prestige” Trek with the older stuff - while I understand the really shiny ~10 episode seasons, it’s hard not to look at the longer, lower-visual-quality 26 episode seasons that gave us things like Q’s Robin Hood and baseball on the holosuite. It’s a different show in a lot of ways.

Oh yeah, I’m aware of those reasons. But at the same time, in the first couple seasons - before it started leaning hard into the near-future speculative fiction AI stuff - it had massive ratings. Nolan himself said they constructed it that way so they could start building more serialized and subversive material in the…

Star Trek has always been at its strongest and most popular when it wasn’t exclusive and difficult to watch

In the past 5 years, I’ve might’ve paid for 3 months total of ad free All Access/PP while there’s an active Star Trek season, every time I quit they give you 2 months free and every 3 months of so, they’ll email you with a month free code trying to promote some new series/season or sport. They don’t have a cap on…

I get what they were trying to do with the “every series, every episode” plan, but you also have to remember the history of Star Trek. The original Trek aired on NBC, but only ever got big when reruns started on syndication. TNG and DS9 aired as first-run syndication - most people initially saw these shows on whatever…

I would’ve agreed five years ago. Today though, I’m not sure that a CBS airing would help much. The limited YouTube releases they’ve been doing probably move the needle more than anything.

I’ve wondered if the insistence on making NuTrek streaming is due not only to them wanting to use it to launch Paramount+, but also because it’s a struggle for them to get the right fans watching CBS. Like Supergirl, which lasted only a season before transferring over the CW. Or Person of Interest, which they…

“Sure our biggest and arguably only major in house franchise is Star Trek, and yes we have a very popular kids show that is doing great work creating a whole new generation of fans we can hook for life but, and hear me out here, what if we not only destroy the already renewed show, refuse to show the second season,…

It’s genuinely odd that Strange New Worlds hasn’t got an airing on CBS. It would definitely grow the fan base of the show which hasn’t helped it being siloed off on a definitely second tier streaming service.

It really does seem like a fundamental failure of basic business strategy. Businesses everywhere know that sometimes you do things that don’t make money or even cost money in order to bring more value to your brand as a whole. Costco sells their hot dog combo and rotisserie chickens at a loss because they know it…

“It’s a shame that the Star Wars movie that nobody asked for is going to rake in millions of dollars.”

Or mom! That was one of a passel of rumors from (I think) Cinefantastique in that time period.

Another rumor was that the stormtroopers would be revealed to all be clones of Boba Fett.  Sic transit the rumor mill:  hit or miss.

Back in ‘77-80 the big rumor was that Boba Fett (revealed in the holiday special and promised to be in Empire) was going to be Luke’s long lost dad.

“You know, my sister used to rule Mandalore.”

My rule of thumb for tjis kind of thing as always been “ If it!s sound exactly like something a fan came up in a commemt section based on existing material, it’s probably false.”

I know this doesn’t touch the live-action shows, which is what the article is about, but I would love for a Tales of the Jedi episode to show some of younger-yet Obi-Wan Kenobi protecting the Duchess the first time around.

So much this - an utterly bizarre choice for the list.  Even if it wasn’t actually specifically named in the original comic strip, I don’t know why someone would be surprised by it either.

Aliens passes too - not too surprisingly either.

If anything, many of the movies on this list demonstrate how limited the Bechdel Test is in terms of actual utility.

Isn’t Alien the actual example used in the original comic that introduced the idea of the Bechdel Test?