Star Trek to go boldly back onto telly, then beam down in streams

this thread reminds me of ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLQ56tkO6Y

The term reboot is just a PR hack to tie into computer jargon. Were the 2 follow star treks a reboot, absolutely not because they did not follow onto the originals and were just pretty lame, very poor story, second set action movies, with that poor story just barely enough to tie together the often pretty silly action scenes. Pretty much a lame cash in on the original franchise and they did a ton of damage to that franchise.

New TV series, I just know it going to be some half assed 90210 in space, to target a younger audience.

Pretty much the last two movies killed the franchise, the second one even worse than the first.

A smarter reboot would reuse the theme but dump that particular universe as unrecoverable.

I hope it is a massive failure

CBS along with everyone else wants to add 'exclusives' to their online streaming offerings. What good is it if you have to subscribe to CBS, ABC, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, HBO, ESPN and on and on and end up spending $200 a month?

If it were on TV I'm sure I'd watch it. Making it online streaming only I won't even watch the teaser episode on TV - what's the point, since I can't watch the rest? If it is any good it'll be available elsewhere down the road and can be binge watched.

Only people who've already abandoned traditional cable/satellite TV would be interested in this, but even among them unless they already subscribed to CBS (and why the hell would you?) the only new subscriptions they'll get are from die hard Trekkies who are afraid not watching them when they come out will mean 'spoilers' when they go to a Trek con.

The word that has been eluding me

is relaunch.

Bah!

I believe, strictly speaking, a reboot is when a previously run series is re-imagined anew, like the new Star Trek movies.

Though I may have lost touch with this particular piece of vernacular in the decade or so that I haven't given a flying fuck.