It’s not a reflection of if it’s great art, I doubt too many people have Do The Right Thing action figures (although that would be awesome) but a collapse in merch sales from real Trek to Kurtzman Trek is a direct reflection of a loss of audience and the failure to replace that audience with an adequately large new one to replace those sales numbers.
It doesn’t need to be high art, but Kurtzman Trek isn’t even Gossip Girl-level writing, it’s disastrous Gossip Girl reboot that got cancelled-level writing.
I believe I initially also chose merch sales, which have cratered via zero interest, because nobody likes this, but it terms of net views, a pre-Kurtzman series is going to beat any movie into the ground. I would wager most Kurtzman series have net underperformed Into Darkness (which was a SHIT movie and SHIT adaptation of Wrath of Khan, the best Star Trek movie)
I maintain that it is factually correct that the majority of prior Star Trek fans and overall humans don’t like Kurtzman Trek (as shown by the numbers) because it is poorly written, dumb, frantic, etc…
Not with inflation and I would argue Trek was never a movie brand. Trek movies range from passable to awful, and they only made the first Trek movie because Star Wars made all the idiot executives chase that as the “real money.” There was supposed to be a 70’s Trek series, but the movie led to it being picked apart and divided up between the movie and eventually TNG (fun fact, the bald lady from the first movie and Troy are based on the same character from the 70’s series that the movie killed). Nobody who is a trekkie is a trekkie because they just LOVED The Undiscovered Country, they’re in it for the series, even Kurtztrekkies.
The majority of pre-Kurtzman fans hate Kurtzman Trek and the new fans are a tiiiiny fraction of the fans lost. The final season of Enterprise that got it cancelled had higher ratings than ANYTHING Kurtzman Trek has produced, and merch sales are nonexistent. I have not decided alone. We are legion. We are the majority of Trek fans.
Satire because Michael Burnham is such a universally beloved character? Discovery is a poorly written show with major tone problems and that mushroom engine crap was just SO stupid it burns. Kurtzman Trek is universally just BAD because the man has no talent.
I guess you’re the winner by liking multiple bad TV series out of spite for people you disagree with.
Enjoy your subpar fake Trek series.
Michael Burnham was a legitimately terrible character, much less protagonist. Kurtzman Trek is trash. Bad writing, bad directing, JJ Abrams ripoff non-stop lensflare… It’s just an insult to EVERYTHING that made Star Trek great before these no talent hacks destroyed it.
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Because I love the intelligent Trek that came before Kurtzman. The existence of Kurtzman Trek precludes better Trek from being produced. Millions of fans are being deprived to enrich this no talent asshat.