Paramount Global (PARA) operates as a media and entertainment company worldwide. Some months ago it expanded its streaming service to Europe (see www.paramountplus.com ). Personally, I subscribed to their streaming service and am so far satisfied. I think they will gain many new subscribers in Europe and the rest of the world, as their expansion has just begun. So I expect growth in this company. Therefore I just bought some Call options.
That's a really crowded space right now. So many players battling for the Lion's Share. Netflix Apple TV Disney+ Amazon Prime Hulu HBO Max Youtube TV Peacock
True, but it's Paramount that has the privilege on Star Trek series (fandom info). And I think Star Trek has worldwide the most viewers/subscribers... Another reason: their ER is on May 4, s. screenshot above, and the current ATM IV is low at about 45 Yet another good reason: a prominent Star Trek actress has just won an Oscar, and just yesterday it was in the news that this actress has inked a new contract for a new Star Trek movie... The show goes on! And she, Michelle Yeoh, the Asian actress, is very prominent in China... This surely will boost Star Trek viewership, and so Paramount... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023...l-star-in-a-star-trek-movie-about-section-31/
Its tough to beat Netflix because of their Moneyball approach to content -- that is their high return to cost approach like Billy Beane did for the Oakland A's primarily in the 1990s. The traditional content producers have a huge legacy of content but making a ton of new content like Netflix does is very expensive unless you take the value approach to producing it.
Discovery was a really bizarre-off-label offshoot of the franchise, with the time travel suit and the spore drive and all of that. Hopefully they can successfully keep that timeline going, because while quirky, it was a refreshing divergence from the main canon.
I ignore that stupid show. A shame for Star Trek. Yes, the above said actress was playing in exactly that show, unfortunately. For my taste, her role was stupid as well, the usual brainless action trash But I think one has in the first place to blame the producers J.J.Abrams and Alex Kurtzman, 2 idiots who with their money and their bad ideas have hijacked Star Trek!
There hasn't been a good Star Trek series since Deep Space 9. STTNG was okay but too many moody episodes with the Captain. These shows are all mediocre since they are not interested in stories about the big picture that Roddenberry created. Nothing beats the original series for story line & originality. Deep Space 9 had a good story line especially with the Jem Hadar and the Founders. The Borg story line was good in STTNG but their demise didn't make any sense to me. The Star Trek reboot in 2009 by Abrams was entertaining and in many ways captured the cowboy approach that Roddenberry had envisioned, but the sequels were terrible (destroying Vulcan didn't make any sense either). Abrams also destroyed the last Star Wars movie as well with the ridiculous back from the dead Emperor.
@nitrene, we have differing tastes My favorites in that order: ENT, VOY, TNG, DS9, SNW, TOS, ... As said I completely ignore DIS and also PIC, since modern brainless action trash, IMO :-/ Ie. Chuck Norris in Space
But the Borg did not meet their demise in TNG. It kinda' happens in the tie-in movies. You have to remember how the writers tried to close up holes in the series with the movies. Like Lursa and B'Etor. They finally died in Star Trek:Generations. Similarly, the Borg died in that timeline during Star Trek:First Contact, when the Borg queen died. That is what I remember.
@Overnight, IDK much the ST movies as I haven't watched them all yet, though I could if I wanted to. I rather prefer the series where each episode covers a, mostly intelligently made, story, sometimes a story in 2 episodes. Regarding plot holes, yeah indeed not amusing, but luckily it's not that many, IMO. Re Borg: they died also in the final episode of VOY. But that story is IMO unrealistic, b/c it's a gigantic empire, one can't kill it so easily.