• Nmyownworld@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Good news. I purchased volume 1, and I’ll purchase volume 2. I think Prodigy is fine, but not my cup of tea. However, I can’t abide how dirty Paramount+ treated the show, the team, and the fans. To Prodigy fans – I got your back. To Paramount+ – sarcastic Vulcan salute.

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    1 year ago

    Not sure releasing a series aimed at children on a medium that was dying before they were born is a great idea.

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      1 year ago

      It makes slightly more sense than trying to expand Star Trek’s appeal by creating a kids show and then putting it on a subscription service that was basically only used by existing Trek fans.

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        This is exactly what’s wrong with the Paramount+ model. The best it can do is produce Star Trek for people who already like Star Trek - there’s not enough other content on P+ otherwise for anyone to pay for a subscription. Without Star Trek available on mainstream TV or major streamers like Netflix or Prime, so that people can stumble across it or dip their toes in without needing to sign up to a whole other streaming service, it’s hard to see how the franchise wins over new generations of fans.

        So best case, if P+ is the future of Star Trek, then the future of Star Trek has an expiry date.

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    1 year ago

    I wish this had stayed exclusively a Nickelodeon-venture instead of getting gobbled up by Paramout Plus and dropped the second the market gets tough

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        1 year ago

        Huh? Everything I’d heard was theat it was P+ that was dissatisfied for w/e reason. I have to imagine if Nick had been the primary one calling the shots they’d at least have wanted to keep it for their lineup

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          Nickelodeon has had an overall decline in viewership of 70% since 2017, around 25% since the pandemic.

          Kids have stopped watching linear television.

          Prodigy was doing ok relative to other Nickelodeon offerings, but not great for such an expensive show. Weekly and monthly viewership was only 170k in 2022 according to Nielsen.