Fascinating, more timey wimey stuff.
It looks moreover that the SNW writers are trying to tie in many of the intertemporal threads.
Now that Discovery has confirmed that the Temporal Wars were a significant factor in the weakening of the Federation prior to the Burn, it makes sense to show us how intertemporal agents have been messing with the timeline in every era. It also makes a good case for the establishment of the DTI and efforts by S31 to protect the Federation.
Not a mod, but just tossing out there that there are a few genre sites that do not make any effort to meet basic journalistic norms.
It makes sense, when this disregard of minimal journalistic standards is an established fact, through a pattern of articles and analysis pieces, for mods to have an automatic policy of removing posts amplifying their content. Promoting unsubstantiated rumour and gossip without any credible sources doesn’t meet the minimum standards for example. The mods shouldn’t be under obligation to verify the lack of journalistic standards in every single piece of content from the source once the pattern is established.
This particular site and one other definitely fall into the category.
If this was another Trek-related subreddit, there would be a pile on from regular users telling everyone to ignore it and not to give them clicks.
TL;DR: to me, articles from sites that make no effort to meet basic journalistic standards shouldn’t be considered meeting community guidelines.
That’s why @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website and I are super curious to see what happens when all the shows other than SNW go off Crave at the end of July.
It’s arguable that Star Trek has been relatively more popular in Canada than any country, including the United States.
Bell Media has had the licences in Canada for both linear and streaming. (Netflix with a nonexclusive for the older shows is an exception.).
Extracting Star Trek from Bell Media couldn’t have been easy. Bell Media is a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) which has not only largest landline, fiberoptic and mobile telephone networks. Through Bell Media it owns the largest private television network, news channel. They also happen to be the general manager and part owner of Pinewood Toronto Studios where Discovery has had leases for its enormous soundstages.
Yes it does.
There are different licensing agreements in Canada, especially for Star Trek which is huge here. TNG was, during its run, the top show in Canada, not just in genres shows. Picard has spiked to that level in some of its season premieres.
Are you in Canada?
Sincerely that’s not taking me to anyplace available here.
I have PlutoTV in Canada. Star Trek doesn’t come up when I search.
It’s also the case that Paramount+ offers little Star Trek in Canada.
You are correct. The classic series are all still listed on Netflix in Canada.
I‘be never actually watched them there so they haven’t come up in my algorithm.
Nickelodeon didn’t get as much linear audience as they’d hoped, but Nickelodeon is doing poorly overall since 2020.
On Paramount+, it was popular but didn’t have as high a completion stat as it should.
Too many fans watched and episode or two and then bailed because it starts out looking more like other franchises that kids and families unfamiliar with Star Trek would find initially appealing. Within a very few episodes it really brings you into a very Star Trek experience, but too large a proportion of viewers didn’t give it the chance it deserves.
Also, Paramount’s promotion and timing of merchandise releases was incredibly weak. The algorithm didn’t promote the show to kids. The toys came out a year after the show premiered. The full year break between short seasons lost audience etc.
Star Trek has been leaving Netflix in all countries as its licences run out.
It hasn’t been available in Canada other than through Bell Media’s platforms.
Actually, the broadcast vs streaming rights might separate.
Bell Media has broadcast rights to SyFy and CW shows in Canada, but Crave hasn’t had the streaming licences.
If Paramount wants to put Star Trek on Paramount+ and PlutoTV in Canada, Bell Media might pass on a nonexclusive licence renewal for Crave while keeping the linear licences.
Glad we have the 4K discs of SNW season one.
Taking Trek of CTV Sci-fi Channel could kill it. There’s a bit of content they’re picking up from SyFy in the US, but with all but one of the CW shows canceled, and Bell Media making very few shows of their own, it won’t have the content for a premium cable channel.
I thought it was supposed to be available until Tuesday?
Our BlueRay set for episodes 1-10 just arrived. I’m hoping that all the views and merchandise purchased in the past few days will diminish the value of Paramount’s write of while increasing residuals to the creators.