I happened to brush across a real Trekkie the other day, he knew star dates, the sequences of the franchise timelines, the errors they have made, so on and so forth.
He even has dressed up as a Klingon for a few of the conventions.
I am just a audience viewer compared to such a person, so I had to ask:
Are you signing up for the CBS ALL ACCESS in order to watch the up coming series "Discovery"?
His answer was
NO.
One of the primary reasons he voiced is item #5 below.
'Star Trek: Discovery': 5 things for non-Trekkies to know
Updated: August 2, 2017 — 10:20 AM EDT
'Star Trek: Discovery': 5 things for non-Trekkies to know
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5. These are not your grandparents’ Klingons. One legacy of executive producer Bryan Fuller’s time at the helm — he stepped down as showrunner last fall — was to get the Klingons an upgrade. “One of the things he really, really wanted to do was shake up the design of the Klingons, and one of the first things that he ever pitched to us … was his aesthetic for the Klingons and how important it was that they … not be the thugs of the universe,” Harberts said, “that they be sexy and vital and different from what had come before.”
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Here is what I am seeing, they have a franchise that has taken a few technical missteps - hard core fans have for the most part forgiven such transgressions, regular viewers just have looked the other way or didn't notice.
The
CBS All Access venture depends on legacy fans and viewers and these are perhaps two different groups.
Legacy fans respect accuracy , continuity, and consistency.
Viewers and new viewers perhaps just want to be entertained and welcome new twists, new interpretations and a certain freshness.
Value wise, I don't see how staking a network's entire future on a single program series is going to fly. Yea there are other programs, but are they cable good?
What is the competition?
Traditional cable TV, satellite, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and so forth?
What of "over the air broadcasts" where CBS was born and currently operates in?
Services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are growing much faster than traditional TV — here's how much
Number of cord-cutters in 2017, according to The Convergence Research Group - Business Insider
I am too cheap to pay for something I've always gotten for free, and the hardcore Trekkie is upset about changing how the Klingons look and act.
This leaves new viewers that perhaps saw a few of the theatrical releases by various directors including that sometimes idiot and destroyer of Star Trek and Star Wars - JJ Abrams.
Time will tell.
Other online TV services when they started didn't even have a featured show with such a legacy, and were just mixes of old things and the unproven.
Who is signing up?