• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I wish someone would just start an all Star Trek and Star Trek related streaming service … it would probably be the only thing I would watch

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      18 hours ago

      the streaming services are just losing alot of money, or the stream is too expensive to sustain. guessing why they dumped nutrek as well, which is are not good series anyways.

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        I remember reading a long time ago in the 90s how Roddenberry had hoped to develop their own network or entire studio just dedicated to developing the Star Trek universe with endless series, shows and movies. There’s so much content there and so much more possible through actual productions and even fan content, books and writing that they could develop something like it.

        I’m pretty sure I’ll just spend the rest of my life watching Trek over and over again. I’ve watched several series now and it’s been years since I saw some that when I go to watch them again, it’s like seeing them again for the first time. By the time I get Alzheimers or some degenerative brain disease, it will all be completely new to me anyway.

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        20 hours ago

        They apparently have Showtime and Nickelodeon’s catalog, along with CBS and MTV. Their originals aren’t anything I’ve seen before. Some are spinoffs of popular shows.

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        23 hours ago

        I think it has a lot of stuff that airs on CBS. So like Survivor or Amazing Race. Maybe Colbert?

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        Maybe for the US but up here in Canada it’s hit and miss … they’ll have a lot of Star Trek shows but then skip some (including Prodigy)

        All this complication just makes it all feel like the early 2000s all over again … everyone is just going to drift towards pirating because it won’t be worth it for everyone to buy this service, that service and managed four or five services to watch their favourite shows. It’s much easier to just pay for a VPN and torrent all the stuff you want for one price.

        I’m going to guess that in about five years, streaming companies will collapse into a few providers selling majority of content for a more manageable price … either that or they’ll find ways to severely lock down the internet for everyone.

        Or it will be like the DS9 alternate timeline of 2025 and we’ll need to have an internet pass in order to get online to do anything.