Star Trek: Section 31

Its clear they just don't want to make good stuff, Terry Matalas gave it to them on a silver platter and the powers in charge of Star Trek still let him go.

Part of me wonders if kurtzman was jealous that Matalas done what he couldn't with apparently a lot less money and the scraps left from the end of Picard season 2.
 
XPE said:
Its clear they just don't want to make good stuff, Terry Matalas gave it to them on a silver platter and the powers in charge of Star Trek still let him go.

Part of me wonders if kurtzman was jealous that Matalas done what he couldn't with apparently a lot less money and the scraps left from the end of Picard season 2.
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I'm not...positive that's entirely the case. Look here's the thing - I'm 48, there are fans older than me and my friend, we're not going to be around making questionable purchases on memorabilia forever, and they have to cultivate a new audience, and unfortunately that new audience has probably never picked up a book and has the attention span of a springer spaniel on walkies. Getting these people to read a book, let alone science fiction is a non starter so they needed to jazz it up - and for that reason they were sold on the idea of making star trek more like star wars which was always going to be a bad idea.

Discovery...Actually had solid bones. It did, it's just unfortunate that it was boring, preachy and had no real appreciation for legacy and completely underused the few compelling protagonists that it had. Strange New Worlds? Mostly solid. I think in terms of Section 31 we're probably seeing Paramount under the skydance/Ellison flag walk back the Kurtzman/Abrams era in favour of attempting to find some degree of solvency.
 
If that was the case, they are making the same mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result.

Discovery is a good example, Netflix basically paid for the 1st series and it got massive attention for that season but they squandered the opportunity and by the end, was on a streaming service I've never heard of. Then got a leading man with charisma in Anson Mount for Strange New worlds and manage to produce something that was the definition of Okay. Then after that the Terry Matalas showed them how to make a good show.

But now we get a Section 31 with a trailer that is pure cringe, they have had opportunities to get this "new audience" and it needs to start with a good show, How many opportunities can they throw away?
 
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