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.

 

[DParga21]

Hooray! My thread has been reopened!
Let me celebrate by posting some pics from the Star Trek cruise my wife and I went on last week.

 

[Pauln6a]

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.

We have a dark room?

 

[afrog]

We have a dark room?

I don't know.

 

[Pauln6a]

I don't know.

I probably don't want to know.

 

[ebor]

Good grief….scroll downwards and you will easily find ‘dark rooms’. You can rant rave and talk politics there to your heart’s content…

 

[pixletwin]

I am not sure you can see it unless you have sent a PM to fujita or yoda to get access.

 

[DParga21]

Anyway, did anyone see the cast promo photos for SNW season 3? Uhura's rocking the long hair now. Celia Gooding says they're going to keep moving her gradually towards the classic Uhura look, but she's not sure she can rock the same hairdo.

 

[davejames]

Anyway, did anyone see the cast promo photos for SNW season 3? Uhura's rocking the long hair now. Celia Gooding says they're going to keep moving her gradually towards the classic Uhura look, but she's not sure she can rock the same hairdo.

Yeah she does look better that way, and I can only hope that's the hairstyle Exo goes with on the figure.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

Anyway, did anyone see the cast promo photos for SNW season 3? Uhura's rocking the long hair now. Celia Gooding says they're going to keep moving her gradually towards the classic Uhura look, but she's not sure she can rock the same hairdo.

She's got a long way to go to get there, and the hairdo is the least of it. But it would be amazing if she actually got there.....for herself AND for us!

 

[DParga21]

She's got a long way to go to get there, and the hairdo is the least of it. But it would be amazing if she actually got there.....for herself AND for us!

You mean the character or the actress? Cause I'm kinda loving how the actress is doing it.
As for the hair, my wife was saying she thinks they should just let her natural hair come in more instead of teasing it out like they have, because she believes Gooding's natural hair is pretty close to Nichols's natural hair. I think she might be right.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

You mean the character or the actress? Cause I'm kinda loving how the actress is doing it.
As for the hair, my wife was saying she thinks they should just let her natural hair come in more instead of teasing it out like they have, because she believes Gooding's natural hair is pretty close to Nichols's natural hair. I think she might be right.
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She’s been doing great in the role, she just doesn’t have Nichelle’s body .

 

[DParga21]

She’s been doing great in the role, she just doesn’t have Nichelle’s body .

No, but few do. Though I will say, after meeting her face to face last week on the cruise, she is a VERY attractive young lady. That uniform just isn't nearly as flattering.

 

[davejames]

She’s been doing great in the role, she just doesn’t have Nichelle’s body .

Well she comes a whole lot closer than Zoe Saldana did at least.