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That article speculates that elements of Paramount (including CBS Studios, which produces Trek these days) could be sold off to other companies, perhaps even Netflix. This, however, doesn't get into the hairy discussion surrounding rights to the franchise.

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[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminder to self: buy physical copies of the shows I want to watch again.

Definitely make this a rule across anything. Corpos can take away the things that you love on a whim otherwise

[–] CaptainProton@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Piracy is the only way. I never buy anything I can pirate out of principle.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would say buy it if the price isn't predatory because you are making a statement in the marketplace.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they sell rights to Trek then that's it for Paramount for sure, it is quite literally The Franchise for them. Although I can see them spinning off different things, like how Bethesda gave rights out to make FO:NV, or how Disney doesn't in-house their games, they let other studios have different ideas.

Star Trek and the Sheridan Yellowstone franchise accounted for about half of Paramount+ demand in 2022.

There is no streamer without those two.

On Prodigy, my emotional reaction is that same deep pit in the stomach that I felt as a kid when I realized TAS season two was only 6 episodes.

Intellectually, it seems like a very shortsighted call. Paramount+ doesn’t have a lot of new animated content and it’s a growing area of demand. In fact, Prodigy’s demand numbers were better in 2022 than any other Paramount+ animated original except Lower Decks. Low audience numbers on Nickelodeon say more about the falling linear demand than about the show.

Besides Prodigy was always an investment in the franchise for the long term, to build audiences and provide a gateway for kids not just now but in future. Our own kids’ gateway into Trek was the TAS DVD set. I bet Prodigy will have a steady pull with preteens for years to come.

[–] tymon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Between this and the potential Netflix merger/acq, it's looking prettttttttty fucking grim for the alpha quadrant

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enjoy it while it lasts, people. We've been blessed the last few years. All good things...

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

I think it's safe to assume that Star Trek would always be picked up by somewhere, but that normally prolongs things and cuts off anything existing like SNW.

[–] UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How credible is this source?

I really hope what's going at Paramount doesn't affect the other Trek shows negatively. We're finally at a point where Trek is really good again.

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, all I want is voyager and deep space nine in HD. Yeah, yeah, I know why it isn't, but still...

I would be ok with paramount selling trek out, just not to Disney! That would wild ... Lol

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