That's a shame. There were certainly parts about the show I could nitpick, it is far from perfect. But I enjoyed it. Glad to at least get a season 2.
I can honestly take this, though I do want more Star Trek content. I will continue to watch the show, but it's really asking for a lot of suspended belief in each episode. A random sampling of my problems with the show:
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You take fresh, untrained to partially trained students, put them in a mobile school, and then intentionally fly that ship full of children into known dangerous areas of space?
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We've had decades of the best in Starfleet fully commissioned officers solving complex problems, and the academy is full of professors and other well educated professionals, yet with every weird anomaly, the approach is, "fuck it let's let the kids handle this one"
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Terse negotiations with a previous and potential new member of the federation are done as a spectacle at the academy in front of the students and almost no other high level members of Starfleet, instead of literally anywhere else?
There are many more, but at some point I had to just turn my brain off to continue watching. I'm not used to having to do that so much with Star Trek.
The algorithm felt it wasn't hitting the right taste clusters
If someone had told teenage me that there would be star trek and star wars that not only would I never see but never care to see. heck sci fi in general. its wild.
I am genuinely happy to hear that Alex Kurtzman is leaving the Star Trek franchise, fuck that guy.
That’s not in the announcements
Variety confirmed that CBS Studios and Kurtzman are continuing to be in negotiations for a renewed partnership.
Quoting the article: "According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Kurtzman and CBS Studios are currently in talks for a new deal that will keep him in the CBS fold"
I personally take that as he is staying at CBS but leaving Star Trek, especially since the new Star Trek movie has no connections to him.
It depends on whether the intent is to integrate the movies and television.
No one involved with the new movies has proven their ability to deliver on Star Trek, whatever their other credentials.
It would be a major risk to give any untested production company and EP the kind of multiyear contract needed to run the franchise.
Personally I have a much higher chance of going to see the new movie if it has NO ties to Kurtzman, and I am not alone in my friends-group for that opinion. I only went to see Star Trek Beyond because it was a fresh take mostly written by Simon Pegg (A known ST fan), and I think it's the best of the three new movies.
Definitely a YMMV situation. I have seen all three Kelvin movies and liked the first best of the lot
Beyond didn’t redeem itself for me. The motorcycle ridiculousness put it in the Nemesis category for me. There’s also the fact that none of the rest of the family would watch with me after the first one.
That said, the movies are being led by completely different people at this point.
Kurtzman is only negotiating television production not movies. My point was that the movie people have yet to prove themselves in even being able to deliver a cinematic feature in the franchise. So, would be an extreme risk to lock a 5-7 year deal that includes television production.
I have watched all of trek except TOS (just a few famous episodes only).
I just couldn't get into this show and that's okay, I don't need to love every show. Sad to see less Trek as there should be Trek for every type of audience but if they are cancelling then I'm guessing the show didn't find its mark with people.
I don't know how to appeal to younger audiences, there are people smarter than me to figure that out but I hope to have a trek for me again someday.
Im so sad
My kids and me love this show 😩
”…the show failed to find its significant audience.”
Put a show on a streamer that is targeting a completely different audience, and let the entitled vocal fans run wild with unchecked brigading, and then be surprised by low “crowdsourced” ratings.
Sigh.
This is depressing, if accurate, in that it may also be a signal that the new owner is looking for a new production company to manage the franchise just when things had finally and consistently stabilized with Secret Hideout.
I’m not hopeful for an SNW continuation in a Year One show, or Tawny’s project either.
It does seem like Paramount+ has a problem with drawing younger people - stuff aimed at younger demographics doesn't seem to last long (with the exception of Spongebob). I always thought SFA's success was a bit of a long shot for that reason.
And ironically, merging with HBO Max might actually help with that, but it won't come soon enough.
Prodigy was amazing though.
Did a single person hear about it before the cancellation notice? Well, no. But it's still somehow our fault that it was cancelled, and not their fault for utterly failing to promote it in any way.
Paramount+ is the new 'Friday night time slot.' If they actually gave a shit about having the show being successful, they would've syndicated it to a streaming service people actually use.
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Does that mean we're not even going to get a nice ending for season 2?
Hopefully they had enough of a sense it was coming to wrap things up.
they did allow disco to shoot additional scenes to make the season finale a series finale. I hope they allow SFA to do the same
Unfortunately, they did a cliffhanger.
Now you have to wonder if they can untangle it into one coherent finale episode, and if Paramount will even give them the approval to untangle it in the first place.
I'd rather have a cliffhanger and a glimmer of hope it could be resolved in a future movie.
I’m always concerned that having an unresolved cliffhanger has the opposite impact.
It discourages new viewers from trying a show and undermines the case for a movie.
A Firefly to Serendipity outcome is vanishingly rare.
And unlike Farscape, the production company partner can’t get the IP back and make a limited series or streaming movie to resolve it.
That's good point. I enjoyed the Discovery finale well enough but I also can't deny it definitely felt rushed.
I can't say for sure if I'd prefer a rushed conclusion over a well-considered writing that gets cut short!
Oh man this is really sad. I liked SFA way more than I thought I would. The cast was top notch, and they had some good stories. Genuinely sad to see this one go.
Well, I'll be damned. The hate campaigners seem to have won, despite solid signs that the show was actually doing quite well with the target group — internationally, if less so in the US?
This is very sad news, the show seemed to go from strength to strength in its first season.
Random reactions:
- Disappointed but not surprised.
- Even though the article leaves this an open question, I will be surprised if Kurtzman returns after this.
- At least they didn't memory hole S2 as a tax write off.
- I wonder if they will attempt (and be allowed to attempt) to rework the S2 'cliffhanger-ish/lite' ending into something else, or if it's just impractical to rework a "part 1 of 2" episode into a 1 episode contained story.
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Well, damn.
There's inevitably (and understandably) going to be a lot of speculation about what, exactly, led to this decision, but...in the absence of any further information, I'm just going to be bummed about it.
Here's the first (big FWIW/grain of salt/etc) thing on the decision that's I've seen (besides the TrekMovie article note that 'it's no secret that the show didn't Nielsen chart'). From author Mike Chen on Bluesky.
From the few insiders I know, viewership was actually above expectations and this was more of a "future of the franchise" corporate decision. I'm expecting Trek to be in flux as there are SO MANY variables. Everything from tech stocks to Iran to midterms is impacting Paramount.
Leaving the link to his post here for reference but he has his posts hidden unless you're logged into Bluesky.
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