If you were to ask Alex Kurtzman about the state of the Star Trek franchise, he would tell you that it's going strong. With three shows running simultaneously and about fifty more shows in the works, he would talk about how excited everybody is for what's to come. So excited in fact, that Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks are constantly breaking records. It's almost like we're having a second golden age of Trek and anyone who says differently are anti-SJWs who belong in the sad little corner of the fandom!
If you were to ask me though, I'd tell you that this nu-era-of-Trek is garbage and everybody hates it. Unfortunately, there wasn't a way to prove it though. Because these new shows stream on CBS All Access as well as Netflix or Amazon, they keep the view counts a secret. Once in a while, they'll put out articles touting the success of Discovery or Picard, backed by the likes of Parrot Analytics, but they never tell you exactly how many people watched their shows. So when Discovery got picked up for a second and then a third season, people naturally thought that it was a success and when the other shows started airing, it was easy to believe that a new golden age had begun.
However, some of that veneer has begun to peel off. Recently, we learned through Google Trends that excitement for Star Trek has been dwindling since 2009. We've also have multiple clues that have led us to believe that Picard was not as well received as they would have you think. We also got news that CBS All Access will be rebranding themselves to Paramount+ next year, four years after they made Star Trek Discovery their flagship show.
Then CBS released their Lower Decks trailer and it got ratio'd to the point where they turned off the like/dislikes as well as the comments. That must have been embarrassing. Gary Buechler once gave me this advice: Never let them see you sweat. This was the first time we saw them sweat.
On Sunday, October 4th 2020, a pre-recorded "Star Trek Universe" panel for New York Comic Con became active and set to premiere on October 8th. As soon as it went up, the dislikes started to go up.
October 4th
By the next day it was up to 30.
October 5th, 7:13am
32 minutes later, the dislikes suddenly went down to 11, LMAO! We're assuming they have the power to reset the ratio.
October 5th, 7:44am
But it jumped back up to 32 in a matter of hours.
October 5th, 12:11pm
Then it kept going. By the next day, it was at 65.
October 6th, 4:49am
That night, it peaked at 205...
October 6th 9:24pm (highlighted)
...before being cut down to 146.
October 6th, 10:05pm (highlighted)
The numbers went down slowly overnight from 205 all the way down to 25, LMAO! Who are they kidding?
As of this writing, it's back up to 60.
It obvious that the ratio is being manipulated by either NYCC, CBS, or Secret Hideout. The fact that they have to cheat to manufacture a good image is hilarious! They either refuse to turn off the like/dislikes or think they're being smooth by quietly lowering the dislikes. A number of comments have also been deleted as well.
Comments that were already deleted by that time.
A bunch of soon to be deleted tweets.
Make no mistake, they're sweating. They know nuTrek is not popular, so they're curating comments and changing ratios to make it look like it is. The clues are everywhere. It's in the audience vs. the critic scores, it's in the tends we see, and it's even in the ratings.
But wait! Didn't I say that CBS All Access doesn't release their view counts? I did. However, Star Trek Discovery aired in Canada in 2017. The premiere episode brought an aggregate of 2.2 million while the second episode brought in 1.2 million. That's bad!
More recently, Star Trek Discovery has been airing on CBS television and the ratings are tanking, with the most recent episode bringing in 1.6 million viewers. For comparison, TNG's first season averaged about 10.4 million viewers per episode.
When Picard aired earlier this year in Canada, episode one sat with a cold 1.8 million views, while the fifth episode dropped to 1.3 million views. That is half a million views lost in 5 episodes.
You can't have a second golden age of Trek without... you know... THE GOLD! How pathetic for Secret Hideout and ViacommCBS to come up with such meager numbers and pretend it's a success. Enterprise was cancelled because it's last season averaged about 3 million viewers per episode. Discovery is one of the most expensive shows in television history, with each episode costing over $8 million to make, all for an audience of less than two million.
Update: Doomcock reported on this news and used my tweets and comments.
Double update:
The link to the panel now leads to what is called "Star Trek - Lower Decks & Star Trek - Discovery Cast Interview" and because of Doomcock's video, the like/dislikes ratio is back to normal.
The link to the panel now leads to what is called "Star Trek - Lower Decks & Star Trek - Discovery Cast Interview" and because of Doomcock's video, the like/dislikes ratio is back to normal.
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