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Per series writer Aaron J. Waltke:

🚨 #StarTrekProdigy RED ALERT🚨

Trek fandom, you’re being heard!

#StarTrekProdigy Season 1 Vol. II (Episodes 11-20) is coming to BluRay & DVD on 9/26. Already available for pre-order at @target.

Grab it now and show the world you want more #StarTrekProdigy. Keep the momentum!

https://www.target.com/p/star-trek-prodigy-season-1-vol-2-episodes-11-20-blu-ray-blu-ray-2023/-/A-89497119#lnk=sametab

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@theinspectorst @ValueSubtracted @taladar @Vordus paramount+ has two publics: star trek fans and RuPaul fans

That's it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey people got it to watch the halo show ! Also Yellowstone is apparently very popular, and CBS stuff like NCIS (apparently the most watched show of all time?)

However I agree that they really should had just made a deal with Netflix which would have been cheaper for them than making their own streaming service

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds like it was Nickelodeon that needed to bail first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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