With Star Trek Discovery set to drop it's first Season 4 episode tomorrow, some corporate geniuses got their fingers in the pie and mucked everything up. With just days to go before the new season, Paramount and Netflix parted ways, leaving anyone outside of Canada and the U.S. without a streaming way to watch the previous seasons of Star Trek Discovery until some time in 2022 when the new Paramount streaming service launches outside North America. More importantly for non-North American fans, Season 4 will not stream outside of North America until then, either.
Naturally, no one is suggesting that this will cause an uptick in piracy of new episodes of the show outside of North America. They don't have to suggest it, since it's bloody obvious.
This is one of the consequences of our developing dependence on streaming services and their whims and the corporate decision making that drives them. Corporate board rooms don't seem to have room for a chair for fans of the shows and movies they deal in. Shocking.
Interestingly, as annoying as this Netflix/Paramount issue is and will be going forward, it has had exactly zero effect on my Star Trek Discovery dvds of seasons 1 through 3.
Like I said above, I absolutely LOVE saying "I told you so!"
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