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Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Netflix has announced that it has secured a deal to stream every episode of the new Star Trek TV series within 24 hours of its original network broadcast. However, neither the U.S. nor Canadian subscribers are included in the deal, which otherwise covers every territory that Netflix operates in worldwide. Stateside viewers will be able to stream the new show via CBS's own All Access digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, with Canadian streaming provisions yet to be announced. The deal represents a potential major step forward in the company's determination to bypass regional licensing, and at one stroke eliminates the typical years of delay that occur when a U.S. program seeks foreign audiences.
Not so much bypassing regional restrictions....as flipping them to the reverse of the usual. Good for Netflix and CBS coming up with a global release strategy that benefits both companies. But alas, as I'm in the U.S. I will have to wait till it comes out a year later on US Netflix. I will survive..somehow.
I am a big ST fan and while TNG is still my favorite I even like the reboot movies (yes they are not "Trek" in the traditional sense, but the actors & dialogue are good entertainment). So I was quite happy to hear about a new series... Then they published the fan film guidelines and suddenly it all turned sour for me. Sure, I always knew Paramount/CBS are doing it for the money, but performing what is analogous to kicking their fans in the face? And I was never a big fan of fan-made films, but I always took it for granted that they added value to ST not take away from it...
Nope, the way I feel right now I'll just re-watch my already paid-for TNG, TOS etc disks and hope someone else will make some decent non-ST sci-fi.
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Well we also had such flops like.
The Motion Picture,
The Search for Spock
The Final Frontier
Voyager
Generations
Insurrection
Nemesis
Enterprise
Trek has been in a steady decline for a while.
The problem is it was a show for the 1960's trying to reboot it for the new generation while keeping its nostalgic charm is getting harder and harder.
The successes in the list.
Wrath of Kahn - Allowed a nostalgic response to an existing story, added with the character development of an older Kirk trying to retire.
The Voyage Home - Wasn't a Star Trek movie, but a Romance Comedy with Star Trek Characters.
The Undiscovered country - once again playing on the older Kirk who was to retire.
First Contact - While popular at the time, I don't feel it will hold up. However that was more of an action flick than star trek.
For the shows.
TNG in essence ignored the TOS for most of the plots and created a show independant.
The same with DS9 very different.
Voyager and Enterprise failed because they tried to remake the TOS and TNG with different characters with a decade apart.
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