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I’m referring to meaningful fighting for our collective rights, not fighting amongst ourselves— such as with petty contrarianism.

what we can do is apply some common sense, however, and realize the amount of work to do this is ridiculous. and, yes, tacking the changes isn’t that complex, but tracking that many changes and storing them for tens of millions of users’ comments for 18 years IS. Then doing what you proposed with ChatGPT is beyond absurd with regards to cost, too, considering the scale of computing work required to process so many deleted comments.

so, despite how many theoreticals you propose regarding the possibility of it, the fact remains that it’s unlikely in the extreme such an effort would have been made because of the resource, time, and cost involved.

the amounts of cost and resources for all of that would be profound. when they’re already complaining about profitability, I doubt they’d dumb huge amounts of additional funds into a project like that. they clearly have at least one level of backups, and I wouldn’t be shocked if they had 2 or 3 revision backups, but anything past that - let alone what you’re suggesting - would be too much to be a manageable cost.

I just said precisely that

not all of us are ready to just give up so easily. I’m willing to fight for the nice things we have, even if you’re not.

it was randomly-generated letters and numbers. it would be impossible to divine what te original comment was. I then did this, over and over 10 times, so the edit history was overwritten with blocks of randomized text.

what you suggest would just spit out more garbage, or, at best, completely fake comments.

the article asserts that they may shift some focus to those other franchises and focus less on Trek.

it’s not the amount of episodes, really because the feedback from the public is far faster and more detailed. see, the style of storytelling - serialized with season-long story arcs - gives far less ability to show any variety or independent growth with a character. it’s all locked-in on a specified narrative path. the goal is already determined from the start. SNW is more open-ended with its more episodic format, as was the preferred format of earlier series. these allow for more varied stories, varied types of storytelling, more opportunities for character development, world building, etc. And it allows for course-correction in development of the series in response to feedback from he public that would otherwise derail the production of a series written as one, massive story arc with a planned narrative path and ending.

DS9 managed to balance both pretty well, writing most episodes in an episodic format, but frequently featuring 2-3 episode story arcs that were much easier to digest than massive, season-long story arcs and allowed for adjustments as production progressed.

930 years into the future, and they still can’t write themselves out of a wet paper bag, but to answer your question: no. I don’t want to see a S31 series, either. That’s the point of a clandestine, off-the-books organization is that you don’t see or hear anything about them. they’re supposed to operate n the shadows secretly, dammit, lol. The jokers writing DIS had them parading around like James Bond introducing himself t every pretty girl and shady character in a casino like, “Yo, I just ripped of your casino for millions because I’m a master card sharp, and, btw, I’m an elite British spy sent here to kill your boss. Take me to him, please? Also, make me a drink.”

Edit: S31 worked in DS9 because they were creepy and they are generally regarded as repugnant by the Starfleet characters we saw and as a massive and shocking hypocrisy by the non-Starfleet/Federation characters. And then the DS9 crew worked to take down the leader of S31, simply for existing as an existential threat, not because it had become a self-aware AI bent on the destruction of humanity and intergalactic domination. DS9 had standards.

Furthermore, they stated a goal in giving audiences reasons to maintain Paramount+ subscriptions, but while also not over-delivering all at once. Let's not forget that at the peak of this revival, five Star Trek shows ran concurrently. Soon, we'll be down to three Paramount+ Trek shows, and it's possible that number will dwindle further to make room for other projects.

well, with the Section 31 show planned, DIS wrapping up, and LD and SNW still going strong, what are they gonna do? They already canned PRO, not just dumping a whole season that was ready to go, but pulling the S01 from Paramount+ entirely. Are they canceling Section 31, too?

What you’ve shown is the system -democracy - working as intended. I’m not sure how that’s a criticism.

That’s the problem. You get one party in power who doesn’t like it for some reason, it’s gone.

except your “evidence” proves the exact opposite.

That’s why I suggested multiple levels of oversight. Also, they kept their funding.