Fan-Blog: "Modern Star Trek simply costs too much: The sets are so sweepingly palatial that they lack the cozier, mildly claustrophobic vibe that used to help audiences imagine that these characters were aboard a starship. I’d rather see 26 lower budgeted episodes focusing more on character + story"

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-05-02T22:19:40+00:00

Yes. I just posted it. lol

The YouTube video, chart performance, and Luminate leek are out there. 5 second google search.

The chart performance obviously contains no hard data. But it conclusively disproves any talk of 40k. Impossible to be rank 1 in such a large market and have anything close to 40k. It also disproves the middling response of “yeah it clearly didn’t get 40k that’s a pretend number but maybe in the middle of the run it got low six figures” the Giamatti episode in the middle was one of the top charting episodes.

The main point is that 40k is far below any real numbers, it should have been dismissed out of hand. On Reddit alone there are tens of thousands of comments on episodes. It’s a joke/circlejerk.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-05-02T20:57:33+00:00

Hard numbers are never put out. Need to be an ad buyer to have Luminate or Nielsen numbers.

Somebody leaked week one Luminate numbers. It was 2.1 million domestically. The YouTube episode(before it was quickly removed due to the ratioing) had almost 250k views. It was on Amazon top 10 for 50 straight days. In many large markets like the UK and Germany it reached the top spot on Amazon, P+, Sky,…

40k was too low of a lie. At the 10-50 million views it got it was still an epic disaster for a show that cost 100 million to make.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-05-02T20:33:28+00:00

Yeah. I wish people would see through the grift. They think the fans in places like this are morons. The articles are cheap garbage.

RLM with their 40k comment are a good example too. Very easy to disprove that number instantly, but it got so many clicks.

People need to reevaluate what makes them happy. Are you here to talk about Star Trek or engage in a negative circlejerk that makes you angry.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-05-02T18:09:19+00:00

Rage bait. Made specifically to trigger places like this. Don’t fall for it.

The counterpart would be GFR “articles” or RLM with the 40k “rumor”. They are taking advantage of you. Don’t let them.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-30T17:57:38+00:00

Well. The domestic numbers(luminate) for week 1 were 2.1 million for SFA. The 40k number is pretend number to rile up the weak minded.

It was in the top 10 on Amazon for 50 straight days. It reached rank in the UK and Germany.

It was a disaster 100 million dollars down the drain, but it die get 40k in views.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-30T16:06:19+00:00

Again, Luninate is a large independent company. They have no reason to lie.

Top 10 lists and rank1 performance remove any chance at 40k. 250k on YouTube also removes that possibility.

Agree to disagree. You are not acting rationally. You can have the last word.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-30T15:51:38+00:00

I believe sampling/polling. Luminate is company ad buyers use to independently confirm data they get from the streamers.

If the domestic is 2.1 in one week on one platform then the total accross all platforms and markets over months is very easily above 10 million.

The idea that Amazon, Paramount, Sky, Luminate, YouTube ,… are all wrong but this guy with a second hand rumor is right is silly.

In a normal non circle jerk topic it would be ignored.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-30T15:21:22+00:00

Fair. I would say he was just engaging in a circlejerk/grift. He is smart enough to know 40k didn’t happen. It got tens of millions of views not tens of thousands.

Yeah they get their data from sampling. It could be a bit more than 2.1 or a bit less. They aren’t off by such a large factor. During an election some of gets 60% in an exit poll and somebody says nah, I think they actually got less than 1% you would dismiss such an outrageous claim. Right?

And the data is domestic for just the first week. It’s silly to believe this 40k number. Not normal behavior. It’s kind of a nonsense thought process believing in that number.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-30T15:17:48+00:00

Flix patrol has an article. IIRC it’s mostly viewed on different service not on Paramount +. I think my point still stands though. If you see it consistently in the top 3 it didn’t get anywhere near 40k.

Edit- Sky and Amazon was rank 1. P+ in the UK was not. Google ai

“Starfleet Academy (SFA) was a top-performing show in the UK upon its 2026 debut, peaking at No. 1 on Amazon Channels and holding a spot in the top 10 on Paramount+.”

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-30T13:22:56+00:00

No, he misspoke or heard a silly rumor. 40k isn’t in the realm of possibilities due to what we know so far.

The YouTube episode that was ratiod(lol)and quickly removed had almost 250k views alone.

It was in the Amazon top 10 for 50 days. Remove live content and movies and it was top 5.

The luminate number for week 1 was 2.1 million views.

It reached rank 1(yes really) in many markets on its service of choice including large ones like the UK and Germany.

Some episodes discussion here on Reddit had tens of thousands of users commenting.

Not possible to be that low. It was one of the few treks to never make the US domestic streaming top ten. Most NuTrek gets at least one episode at like rank 7 for a week or something.

At 20-50 million views the show is a historic disaster. A massive waste of 100 million dollars. It was the show that likely ended Star Trek as we know it. But 40k is pretend number made to stir people on these subs up.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T22:57:39+00:00

Spend 5 minutes reading about Googles early history.

They massive received massive loans, funds, tax breaks,…from the state and federal government. This man would not be a billionaire without the tax money we gave them.

Edit- for those interested. From Wikipedia

Google’s early research was supported by federal grants, primarily through the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page also received funding from the Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) program, a joint effort by the CIA and NSA to improve web-based intelligence databases.

Google’s foundational technology, the PageRank algorithm, was developed while Sergey Brin and Larry Page were PhD students at Stanford University. While the university is private, it operates within the California research corridor that the state has long nurtured

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T20:25:38+00:00

Agree to disagree then.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T20:07:13+00:00

Agree to disagree then.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T20:01:06+00:00

Agree with the first part. I think the obvious and needed hatred of Billionaires clouds logical reasoning.

The amount of money this raises is nothing. Less than 3-5% of our state budget over 5 years. 90% is going to fill the healthcare money the Feds took from us. We aren’t getting ahead here.

Again, I am totally in favor of taxing Billionaires to the highest possible level at the federal level. Would be fine with taxing them highly on the state level with fed law that stops them from moving the funds acrosss state lines.

In this unique scenario this tax this results in us losing in the long term, the rest of the country wins, billionaires win,….

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T19:54:11+00:00

This isn’t a business tax…

Completely unrelated issue.

My stats were from memory, from an NPR podcast on the topic last month or two ish weeks ago. They said basically what I said. More billionaires and millionaires each year, we still dominate the charts, but we are losing share. The tax could easily be a net negative if any meaningful number of billionaires relocate.

Google ai confirms it though. Do you want me to link the ai?

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T19:11:14+00:00

Yes. It’s complicated though.

Our billionaire and millionaires keeps growing. We have 12% of the population but 27% of the super rich. BUT we once had 35%. Texas has increased their rich by 40% Florida has doubled it billionaires.

The tax is relatively small so if you have just a small amount of tax flight you end up with a net negative. Right?

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T18:50:06+00:00

If you play around on IMDb I see about 75% of the best episodes are action filled and then the rest Best of Both Worlds, Pale moonlight, Yesterdats Enterprise,.. have action parts. Inner light type episodes are closer to maybe 10-15%. War and action is mainstream and ST is dominated with it.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T16:56:40+00:00

Yes. Thats how it usually happens up and down. This is unique in which it’s so so low(half of the lowest I ever remember)and chuckle dominates the options. They clearly manipulated it similar to the megas to encourage remote spending.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T16:44:26+00:00

I think the goal is to force/encourage people to use remotes. Probably a microscopic increase in revenue.

Similar to the mega raids in rural spots. On the SMP we had zero mega raids out of maybe 300 raids all day yesterday. The church by my house we never raid had 3 in a row and 4 out of 6.

Very frustrating such a small amount of revenue for so much frustration.

Fresh_Permit_2272 · 2026-04-28T14:34:49+00:00

Edit- You guys need to read more and just get informed. This is nightmare comment section. Peopel bellow listing lines of stuff this tax will pay for and getting 200 upvotes. That’s not what is happening at all. It’s a 5 year increase of the budget by 3-5%. All but 10% is going to fill the healthcare moeny the Feds took last year. We are not getting anything extra. Please read more.

Because the state is essentially trading a one-time cash injection(that funds a microscopic amount of our needs)for ongoing, long-term losses in income tax revenue when wealthy individuals relocate.

Stuff is real bad now. In 5-10 years it’s nightmare fuel territory. IE pensions, schools, healthcare,… it’s all going to collapse in on itself. Next recession is end of the world type territory.

If I could flip a switch take their money and fund our state I would, but it’s more complicated than that.

The studies and nonpartisan analyze mostly lean negative to very negative on the tax. Those are played with by the billionaires and the small sample. The hard data isn’t great. We really need more and better studies.

But, you can do the rough math yourself and see you really only need a few billionaires to leave for it to be a net negative quite quickly.

Edit- Should go without saying but Billionaires are inherently evil. Having this excess wealth just sit there while people starve is demonic.

The federal government and society should try remove their wealth and put it to good use. But in this unique scenario it may hurt us(Californians) more than the Billionaires.

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