Star Trek Discovery Is Lost to Most of the World, Days Before Its S4 Premiere

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Feels like a bad business decision, considering it will definitely promote piracy... and Paramount+ already has multiple other banner Star Trek shows to entice new subscribers in coming months. If you're willing to subscribe for Paramount+ for Discovery S4, you're definitely willing to subscribe for Strange New Worlds, which is only a couple months behind Picard S2. And those will probably simultaneously air close to when Paramount+ actually launches in other countries.

Lower Decks is the best of the nu trek.

Lower Decks is quite good, though I think the number of people who would subscribe to Paramount+ solely for it is lower.

Piracy is competition and by not competing, studios make sure pirate ecosystems stay healthy.

In the 90s I paid $400 a year (in today's money) to watch DS9. I'd certainly subscribe to Paramount plus at say $100/year to watch Trek.

However that's not an option, so I'll watch it from torrents.

Looking at Paramount Plus in the US though

"a few shows include brief promotional interruptions to keep you in the loop on new and upcoming Paramount+ programming."

Nope, looks like Torrents are the only way.

I find the promotional interruptions annoying, but fwiw, for the full price version, it's only a pre-roll ad. Once the show starts it is uninterrupted.

Wut? Star Trek, I am a die-hard Trekker. What is this Discovery? Channel?

So I have to remember how to torrent a file, then cobble together something that will play it on my TV

Good Job Paramount, you've now reduced the barrier to me not paying for other content.

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