{"id":128482,"date":"2015-11-02T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T05:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/star-trek-boldly-goes-where-you-have-to-pay-separately-for-it.html"},"modified":"2015-11-04T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:08:13","slug":"star-trek-boldly-goes-where-you-have-to-pay-separately-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/star-trek-boldly-goes-where-you-have-to-pay-separately-for-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek boldly goes where you have to pay separately for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear CBS &#8212; I&#39;m tickled that you are starting up a new <i>Star Trek<\/i> TV series, and I&#39;m sure it will be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m also sure I won&#39;t be watching it if you are confining it (after the premiere episode) to your separate $5.99\/month streaming service. <\/p>\n<p>Did the Ferengi suggest this as a good marketing strategy? Just wondering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/11\/cbs-needs-star-trek-to-show-it-gets-the-streaming-future\/?mbid=social_gplus'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/tKd-p5ZDxhWCSOqeS7ThNU0ZdsdJukcd2tScxqhXdWgvDmichisAN9miiWAd6ekRz1RH-x4nXIRffHFGpZ0SvpcXyEF1yXteq2xIhgV-UqG8xC4XzOJQMMbpoxpxFd5pQYBQquaSaGB0ut0=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/11\/cbs-needs-star-trek-to-show-it-gets-the-streaming-future\/?mbid=social_gplus'>CBS Needs Star Trek to Show It Gets the Streaming Future | WIRED<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bh2vHnc5m1o'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear CBS &#8212; I&#39;m tickled that you are starting up a new Star Trek TV series, and I&#39;m sure it will be interesting. I&#39;m also sure I won&#39;t be watching it if you are confining it (after the premiere episode) to your separate $5.99\/month streaming service. Did the Ferengi suggest this as a good marketing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/star-trek-boldly-goes-where-you-have-to-pay-separately-for-it.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Trek boldly goes where you have to pay separately for it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,28,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-moguls","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133970,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/the-new-star-trek-discovery-trailer.html","url_meta":{"origin":128482,"position":0},"title":"The new &quot;Star Trek Discovery&quot; trailer","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jul-17 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"This is looking better and more interesting. 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I'm immediately deeply suspicious, but it might also simply be both saner heads prevailing and coming up with a way to straddle the line between fan creativity and intellectual property protection. Post-Axanar, CBS unveils first official fan filmmaking initiative in Trek history Star Trek Film\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/08\/star-trek-discovery-watch-broadcast-tv.html","url_meta":{"origin":128482,"position":4},"title":"&#8220;Star Trek: Discovery&#8221; &#8212; I would watch this. 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Thanks, CBS! Despite Current Glut of Successful Scifi Shows, CBS Executive Says New Star Trek Wouldn't Work on TV CBS can eat a bag of dicks. 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