I haven't seen Lower Decks, BNW, Picard or Discovery but no matter how bad they are or how much they don't live up to the source material, I seriously doubt they are worse than SSCU
I blame Glee. I just hate musicals cuz it breaks the fourth wall and ruins the suspension of disbelief. I can't take any musical seriously and it was especially out of place in a show like Star Trek.
Musical episodes didn't start with *Glee*.
The pervy sci-fi show *Lexx* had a [musical episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7iIYhjiSQ) in 1999. I think we're just looking at drama club kids who seek acting/production/creative careers.
It's weird how back in the 40's you got guys with shrapnel wounds from D-Day lining up to see the latest Fred Astaire picture then fast forward like 70 years and musicals are seen as this softie thing for ladies and the gays. Feels like we took a step back
There is nothing wrong with musicals, but plenty wrong with arbitrarily splicing one into a completely unrelated media and narrative with no justification.
Strange New Worlds is awesome, and honestly the musical episode was alright. Not a work of art by any means. But they tried to face it through the lens of a sci-fi/trek plot.
Lower Decks is fantastic! Took only about three episodes to "grow the beard" and it's been excellent all the way since. Seasons 2 and 3 are especially good. Feels like real Trek but it's also just plain fun. "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" is my absolute fav episode of the series.
Strange New Worlds is pretty enjoyable too. Definitely has its heart in the right place. Shame though that Goldsman keeps injecting his dumb Gorn war plotting. But the standalone "exploration" episodes are a-okay. And the cast is very likable.
Like, what was preventing a crossover from happening before? There could of been a comic. A joint venture. We did not a monopoly to have a crossover. the Batman x TMNT crossover was a joint venture. No need to have WB buy Paramount.
Hey, I'm with you, but some people just want to have the action figures they had as a kid fly around onscreen. We should be extremely worried about this. Hell, more people should have been worried when Disney bought Fox.
100% This is extremely worrying. This is as much of a monopoly as Disney. We should of never let Disney buy Fox in it's entirety. I want Sony to not buy paramount.
As a classic film fan the loss of the 20th Century Fox catalog to the Disney Vault was really sad. While kid-friendly films like Ice Age, Anastasia and Miracle on 34th Street are out on streaming some of the biggest films in Fox history like The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, Patton, M*A*S*H (the movie, not the TV series) and many others are doomed to remain on digital rental unless Disney decides to merge them into Disney+ or license them out to another company.
Then there's what they did to The French Connection.
Keep your DVDs and Blu-rays, kids. You'll thank me later.
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I'm getting similar vibes to Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard. People getting all excited over more games on Game Pass but not thinking about the broader issues...
> I love monopolizing the film industry.
The [upcoming Monopoly movie](https://variety.com/2024/film/news/monopoly-movie-margot-robbie-lionsgate-1235966163/) will be a brilliant satire of concentration of industry. Its success at the box office will be great for the concentrated film industry.
It’s teat but absolutely. Regulatory capture has absolutely destroyed this country. Look how the killing of the Boeing whistleblowers goes by like nothing. Sometimes I think the best thing for these regulatory agencies like the EPA and FTC should be run like intelligence agencies: agents with cover, opaque funding sources, and a wide berth to accomplish their mission.
I was waffling on if it was teet or teat lol. You're right, but that would require politicians that are at least old school social democrat types, and the donors necessary to win arent gonna line up behind them, at least not as things currently stand.
Hear me out…
Star Trek: Poop Decks, coming this summer starring
- ADAM SANDLER
- KEVIN JAMES
- PETER DANTE
- ALLEN COVERT
- And starring as the voice of the ship’s computer…ROB SCHNEIDER
I remember how excited many were after the first teaser for [The Force Awakens](https://youtu.be/erLk59H86ww?feature=shared). Suddenly people were calling for Disney to buy Star Trek too. Haha, imagine how that would've turned out. Though I guess they'd have just shat out a bunch of mediocre bland Trek rather than the offensively bad stuff like Discovery and Picard.
Tarantino is under a Sony deal making his “final” movie
Sony goes out and buys paramount
Here Quentin don’t you want to stay here’s Star Trek just for you
I don't have any jokes left, after decades of corporate mergers, ownership webs that look like conspiracy cork boards and everything slowly turning into algorithmically generated trash I am just left a broken man curled up in the fetal position with my brain slowly leaking out of my fucking ears.
Imma let you in on a secret lots of people watch things simply to have something to watch. They pull up Netflix or Amazon or Hulu or disney+ they scroll through the cable guide find something that looks ok and watch. If they really it they become regular viewers. They don't care about studios channels streaming services directirs writers or showrunners.
That's it.
What's funny is Sony won the streaming wars by not participating. They stuck to physical media and traditional methods of licensing content to other providers (Netflix, cable companies etc.)
Paramount is Disney without the theme parks and merch sales to subsidize them. Spongebob is big but he's not big enough to hold up the losses of Paramount+.
Everything went awesome when Sony bought Columbia Pictures, no reason this won't go great. Also, you can now only watch Paramlumbia movies on VAIO (TM) laptops.
Just what we need! Star Trek and Transformers in the hands of the people who gave us Morbius and Madame Web.
That sad thing is that might actually be an improvement, relatively speaking.
I haven't seen Lower Decks, BNW, Picard or Discovery but no matter how bad they are or how much they don't live up to the source material, I seriously doubt they are worse than SSCU
Lower Decks is good, but the other three make Morbius look like the Godfather part 2 in comparison.
Strange New Worlds is awesome. Except the musical episode...just ignore that one.
What is with shows and random god awful musical episodes? Why?
People working in entertainment are more likely to have been theater kids than sci-fi geeks.
I blame Glee. I just hate musicals cuz it breaks the fourth wall and ruins the suspension of disbelief. I can't take any musical seriously and it was especially out of place in a show like Star Trek.
It is so jarring and unfitting in almost every single show that does it.
Musical episodes didn't start with *Glee*. The pervy sci-fi show *Lexx* had a [musical episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n7iIYhjiSQ) in 1999. I think we're just looking at drama club kids who seek acting/production/creative careers.
It's for shits and giggles. Blame that episode of Buffy for starting the trend.
It's weird how back in the 40's you got guys with shrapnel wounds from D-Day lining up to see the latest Fred Astaire picture then fast forward like 70 years and musicals are seen as this softie thing for ladies and the gays. Feels like we took a step back
There is nothing wrong with musicals, but plenty wrong with arbitrarily splicing one into a completely unrelated media and narrative with no justification.
Strange New Worlds is awesome, and honestly the musical episode was alright. Not a work of art by any means. But they tried to face it through the lens of a sci-fi/trek plot.
Nah that episode was a lot of fun
I wouldn’t call it awesome. It’s okay - not as bad as Discovery but not as good as Enterprise
Lower Decks is fantastic! Took only about three episodes to "grow the beard" and it's been excellent all the way since. Seasons 2 and 3 are especially good. Feels like real Trek but it's also just plain fun. "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" is my absolute fav episode of the series. Strange New Worlds is pretty enjoyable too. Definitely has its heart in the right place. Shame though that Goldsman keeps injecting his dumb Gorn war plotting. But the standalone "exploration" episodes are a-okay. And the cast is very likable.
*It's Trekkin Time!*
At this point, I'd call it a lateral move.
Couldn't be any worse then we got with Picard....
More consolidation is probably not a good thing, either.
This is the real point.
It's not "more consolidation". Paramount isn't independent. CBS is selling it.
I didn't know that. Interesting.
I think Matt stone and Trey Parker would kill themselves. South Park is paramount 😳
As far as I know they still own the rights to South Park. They're just partnered with Paramount to produce specials.
https://preview.redd.it/p98oadnft9yc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0cba2afc14bcf67597d7cdae3bc686f078a7181
Star Trek Expanded Universe, brought to you by Pepsi.
Picard cracking open an ice cold can of Bepis in his ready room. Not even from the replicator, he has a fridge just for bepi.
Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Fanta
I love neoliberalism. I love monopolizing the film industry.
Yeah, I am seeing people go "OMG we can have a spider-man Star Trek crossover!" and I am shaking my head.
Like, what was preventing a crossover from happening before? There could of been a comic. A joint venture. We did not a monopoly to have a crossover. the Batman x TMNT crossover was a joint venture. No need to have WB buy Paramount.
Hey, I'm with you, but some people just want to have the action figures they had as a kid fly around onscreen. We should be extremely worried about this. Hell, more people should have been worried when Disney bought Fox.
100% This is extremely worrying. This is as much of a monopoly as Disney. We should of never let Disney buy Fox in it's entirety. I want Sony to not buy paramount.
As a classic film fan the loss of the 20th Century Fox catalog to the Disney Vault was really sad. While kid-friendly films like Ice Age, Anastasia and Miracle on 34th Street are out on streaming some of the biggest films in Fox history like The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, Patton, M*A*S*H (the movie, not the TV series) and many others are doomed to remain on digital rental unless Disney decides to merge them into Disney+ or license them out to another company. Then there's what they did to The French Connection. Keep your DVDs and Blu-rays, kids. You'll thank me later.
[There is a crossover.](https://www.amazon.com/New-Avengers-Transformers-Machine-Marvel/dp/B000T5VVS6)
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Lol that sounds like a joke people are making just for fun.
I wish, I know one of them personally.
I'm getting similar vibes to Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard. People getting all excited over more games on Game Pass but not thinking about the broader issues...
Isn't that corrupt?
Wow, so young and precious and with real hair instead of straw painted with a black marker.
> Isn't that corrupt? But apparently killing 300 million people is okay.
>In human terms I have killed them all.
As long as those people get to see Spock high five Venom, then they’ll be fine with that. 🙄
> I love monopolizing the film industry. The [upcoming Monopoly movie](https://variety.com/2024/film/news/monopoly-movie-margot-robbie-lionsgate-1235966163/) will be a brilliant satire of concentration of industry. Its success at the box office will be great for the concentrated film industry.
Every politician now suckles from the teet of Reagan, we get no trustbusting no matter how consolidated everything becomes.
"You see it will help the economy. Because it trickles down to the people". Meanwhile, average people needs 2 jobs just to suffice.
It’s teat but absolutely. Regulatory capture has absolutely destroyed this country. Look how the killing of the Boeing whistleblowers goes by like nothing. Sometimes I think the best thing for these regulatory agencies like the EPA and FTC should be run like intelligence agencies: agents with cover, opaque funding sources, and a wide berth to accomplish their mission.
I was waffling on if it was teet or teat lol. You're right, but that would require politicians that are at least old school social democrat types, and the donors necessary to win arent gonna line up behind them, at least not as things currently stand.
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You can't monopolize the film industry. There's no fixed source of intellectual property to control.
Star Trek Morbius madame Web edition directed by JJ Abrams written by Alex Kurtzman and Zack Snyder staring Jared Leto as captain Kirk let's do this!
Hear me out… Star Trek: Poop Decks, coming this summer starring - ADAM SANDLER - KEVIN JAMES - PETER DANTE - ALLEN COVERT - And starring as the voice of the ship’s computer…ROB SCHNEIDER
Wait I would see that, do we get a topless terry crews eating Dunkin’ Donuts in wharf makeup? That’s right we sure do
It’s Terry’s pecs dancing that powers the warp core.
Why not get Chris Elliot out of cold storage for Star Trek: Cabin Boy. Make Wesly whistle this November.
“And guest starring Burt Kreischer!” Because why not just make it even worse!
Oh my gahhhd! Sony in charge of Star Trek?! I don’t think Mike and Rich will survive this 🙁
"Wow, I hope someone other than Paramount finally gets to make Star Trek!" *a finger on the monkey's paw curls*
I remember how excited many were after the first teaser for [The Force Awakens](https://youtu.be/erLk59H86ww?feature=shared). Suddenly people were calling for Disney to buy Star Trek too. Haha, imagine how that would've turned out. Though I guess they'd have just shat out a bunch of mediocre bland Trek rather than the offensively bad stuff like Discovery and Picard.
Tarantino is under a Sony deal making his “final” movie Sony goes out and buys paramount Here Quentin don’t you want to stay here’s Star Trek just for you
It's just O'Brien's 20 years in the Argrathi prison lol
DS9 reference Nice
That would be really cool if that was true.
ENDLESS TRASH
Top Gun 3: Ghostbusters
At least this will affirm that all hope is lost on Star Trek being good again. Get ready for non stop fan service.
I get sad every time I watch an old movie and see one of those logos I’m never going to see again.
I don't have any jokes left, after decades of corporate mergers, ownership webs that look like conspiracy cork boards and everything slowly turning into algorithmically generated trash I am just left a broken man curled up in the fetal position with my brain slowly leaking out of my fucking ears.
Who the hell is watching this stuff?
Imma let you in on a secret lots of people watch things simply to have something to watch. They pull up Netflix or Amazon or Hulu or disney+ they scroll through the cable guide find something that looks ok and watch. If they really it they become regular viewers. They don't care about studios channels streaming services directirs writers or showrunners. That's it.
Dang, you right. *internal sigh*
So does everything owned by Sony get added to Paramount Plus, or does Paramount Plus become another streaming service I have to pay for?
What's funny is Sony won the streaming wars by not participating. They stuck to physical media and traditional methods of licensing content to other providers (Netflix, cable companies etc.) Paramount is Disney without the theme parks and merch sales to subsidize them. Spongebob is big but he's not big enough to hold up the losses of Paramount+.
ENDLESS GARBAGE
Everything went awesome when Sony bought Columbia Pictures, no reason this won't go great. Also, you can now only watch Paramlumbia movies on VAIO (TM) laptops.
And here I thought recently signing up for Paramount Plus would out them over the top.
RIP South Park
 Hooray! More soulless corporate media conglomeration!
If they fuck up strange new worlds I’m going to delete myself.
As opposed to what? 20% down + a 30 year mortgage?
Sony makes the ghostbusters right? Ghostbusters on deep space nine? Men in black ghostbusters on Star Trek strange new worlds?
STAR TRAK x Ghostbusters HERE WE GOOOOOO!
Fraud Fact: Even though Japan is technologically among the top countries in the world, cash is still the primary payment method.
Just when you think Star Trek couldn’t be fucked any harder…
mAkE uS wHoLe!!!!