General Trek discussion

[Skyroes]

"Many" is intentionally vague. That's why certain politicians love to say "Many people are saying (insert idea here)". How much is "many"? A dozen? A hundred? It doesn't really mean anything.
All we have to go by empirically is the data. And the data is:
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That article is ambiguous to say the least on the much needed finer details.

Revenue is not profit, once you subtract the expenses it tells a more honest story.

From what I've read from other sources, Discovery, Picard, and SNW had an average budget of about $8.5 million per episode, SNW may be even higher.

Let’s assume Lower Decks and Prodigy had a significantly lower budget at it $1 million per episode. Nemesis was a theatrical release with a $69 million budget, let’s say Section 31 cost $80 million.

The total budget of 65 episodes of Discovery, 30 Picard, 30 SNW (I’m including season 3), 50 Lower Decks, 40 Prodigy, and Section 31 would be $1.232 billion. You would also need to account for any advertising and marketing costs.

One can also assume the 2.6 billion is also representative of all Star Trek content (1966 to present) the article does not state that’s revenue solely on the Kurtzman era, and this is four years worth of revenue.

All in all, the 2.6 billion is not that impressive because it’s not what they’re actually netting. Paramount doesn’t seem to be doing that well which I assume is why this SkyDance acquisition is coming to pass.

 

[Kebron]

That article is ambiguous to say the least on the much needed finer details.

Revenue is not profit, once you subtract the expenses it tells a more honest story.

From what I've read from other sources, Discovery, Picard, and SNW had an average budget of about $8.5 million per episode, SNW may be even higher.

Let’s assume Lower Decks and Prodigy had a significantly lower budget at it $1 million per episode. Nemesis was a theatrical release with a $69 million budget, let’s say Section 31 cost $80 million.

The total budget of 65 episodes of Discovery, 30 Picard, 30 SNW (I’m including season 3), 50 Lower Decks, 40 Prodigy, and Section 31 would be $1.232 billion. You would also need to account for any advertising and marketing costs.

One can also assume the 2.6 billion is also representative of all Star Trek content (1966 to present) the article does not state that’s revenue solely on the Kurtzman era, and this is four years worth of revenue.

All in all, the 2.6 billion is not that impressive because it’s not what they’re actually netting.

Well lets just say each episode costs 5 bucks to make. By my made up imaginary numbers they made a whole lot of money.

The problem with your example is you guesstimated alot of numbers to support your view. The article also does the same.

Since these companies never really release numbers and money made, I just go by the idea that these corporation are in the business to make money, if Star Trek isnt making them money they wouldn't keep trying to make more of them. DISCO came out in 2017, if DISCO was a failure and new Trek overall is a failure then a company looking to make money wouldn't keep making new content 8 years later.

 

[pixletwin]

Thread locked and infractions issued and off topic posts moved to general “woke” discussion thread in the da4k rooms… will update later with time frame.