It is sad. Kurtzman ruined a franchise that is probably doomed to be discontinued imminently for lack of interest. If you can’t tell the difference between moments of levity in Berman Trek and the tone issue in Kurtzman Trek…
They put up the first episode of Academy for free on youtube 4 days ago and it’s averaged like 2000 views per hour. The episode cost $10 million to make. It’s not sustainable to expend these Kurtzman budgets for the audience it gets economically. It’s not like there’s kids lining up at Walmart to buy Discovery toys. Star Trek: Enterprise was averaging 2.9 million viewers per episode with a MUCH smaller budget when it was cancelled.
It is sad. Kurtzman ruined a franchise that is probably doomed to be discontinued imminently for lack of interest. If you can’t tell the difference between moments of levity in Berman Trek and the tone issue in Kurtzman Trek…
What is your evidence that Trek is doomed?
Also, if you don’t like the shows currently being produced, is it really that sad?
They put up the first episode of Academy for free on youtube 4 days ago and it’s averaged like 2000 views per hour. The episode cost $10 million to make. It’s not sustainable to expend these Kurtzman budgets for the audience it gets economically. It’s not like there’s kids lining up at Walmart to buy Discovery toys. Star Trek: Enterprise was averaging 2.9 million viewers per episode with a MUCH smaller budget when it was cancelled.
You do understand the differences between modern television making and 25 years ago, correct?
If modern era Trek was really so unsustainable, would they be going into their ninth year of it?