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DemsAreTrash's avatar

Here's my take on why Paramount is leaving comments open and also showing the total view count - David Ellison wants this show to be mocked and to fail so that he has a clear path to getting rid of Kurtzman and also justification for bringing on capable people who can restore the franchise. This is all calculated.

Editor, Fabius Maximus website's avatar

David Ellison needs no excuse to fire anyone he wants to fire. He may have to payout their contracts, but that’s commonplace in Hollywood.

DemsAreTrash's avatar

Reread my comment. Paramount can then course correct and get Star Trek back to what it should be, and if the LGBTQPBLMTARD community complains, he can say "Look, we gave Alex a lot of money and he delivered a bomb that no one watched. It's clearly not working."

Editor, Fabius Maximus website's avatar

Please read my comment. I said that he could do all that at any time. That is, I disagreed with: “ David Ellison wants this show to be mocked and to fail…”

He controls the company and can fire Kurtzman without waiting for another failure. Hollywood history is filled with far more capricious firings.

Editor, Fabius Maximus website's avatar

Hilarious idea. But in the real world, actors and actresses often have little feel for their shows. Worse, acting and running a show are different skills. A few can do both, but they are very rare.

Matthew Martin's avatar

Plus, we've seen what Star Trek looks like when Shatner has creative control. V was atrocious; his novels have been better, but the ones I read were still overly Kirk-centric and over-the-top.

ScaryLarryPants's avatar

I don't know if I would call it atrocious, practically anything that could go wrong did go wrong.

I think something fairly solid was originally there, but between the monster Hollywood strike going on during production, the special effects studio screwing up the mountain climbing "fall" scene, and producer/studio kneebreaker Harve Bennett meddling wherever he could (the movie was cut down for "reasons"), I think there is a better movie hiding behind what was eventually tossed at the public, with V the first failure in the TOS movie series, regardless of the Crater Lake sized series of plot holes in "Wrath of Khan" (the "12 day wonder" script).

Basically's avatar

Also Shatner is in his 90s

CleatusDefeatus's avatar

Exactly. He’s older than biden.

Ben L.'s avatar

The most creative character was the fat black retard with afro-puffs, who is a hologram "with the brain of a 4-year-old." Must be no Future Ozempic because half the crew are fatasses. Shitner's retarded tweet was ST V's sequel.

Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

Shatner's right.

Speaking of: Why didn't you put a picture of him on the article, instead of the female Jemhadar?

Laran Mithras's avatar

I think Shatner is too smart. He would be a public face and not the final decision, and even he knows it.

No, the only way to save Trek is to take it away from Paramount and everyone currently associated with it.

Basically's avatar

Or just let the strange new worlds team start running all the shows instead of just one

Man of the Atom's avatar

Give back those Starfleet Admiral pips to Mr Shatner.