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Prodigy EP Aaron Walte calls on fans to ‘Keep it Positive’ as we try to Save Prodigy

3 years ago by StillPaisleyCat to c/startrek

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Executive Producer Aaron Waltke’s list of positive ways to Save Prodigy include:

-- Completing your watch of season one. There are still a few days and completion stats count.

-- For those on Twitter and Mastodon using the hashtags #StarTrekProdigy and #SaveStarTrekProdigy.

— Using the ‘Save Prodigy’ avatars (linked here in an earlier post).

— Buying merchandise: DVDs, BlueRays, Actions Figures, Nintendo game etc. Much of this is already selling out in North America. In the UK, the DVD is now the top seller on Amazon.uk.

Additional options from fans that I’ve seen posted around social media to communicate your desire to Save Prodigy:

— Download Prodigy episodes from whatever streamer you watch Star Trek on (Paramount+, Crave Sky-Showtime etc.) or purchase season one and purchase to download from Amazon, Google etc.

-- Buy the chapter books for 8-10 year olds. 2 of 4 have been released, with the other 2 on preorder through major sellers.

-- Send a paper snail mail letter to the head of children’s programming at Paramount. I have seen this name and address posted elsewhere

Brian Robbins
President and CEO, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon
Chief Content Officer, Movies & Kids & Family, Paramount+
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036

-- Sign the Save Star Trek Prodigy petition if you’re willing to deal with the (now commercialized) platform and the ensuing spam. (Completely understand why most folks here would not want to.) The petition has reached nearly 10k supporters in less than 2 days. By comparison, the one calling for Star Trek Legacy took weeks to gain this level of support.

WndyLady 8 points 3 years ago

I started watching when I saw the announcement a day or so ago. Really enjoying it, especially the homage in the Kobayashi Maru episode.

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StillPaisleyCat 8 points 3 years ago

Complete it by Tuesday if you can.

Lack of completion seems to have really been hurting the show.

There are many fans who post that they didn’t find the early episodes Trekkie enough and bailed, but they didn’t seem to consider that this show was designed to draw in kids and families who are more familiar with other franchises and provide them the bridge to get into Star Trek.

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WndyLady 3 points 3 years ago

It's a fair assessment. IMO, the first two episodes felt like a cross between knock-off contemporary Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy. But it's growing on me now.

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Naura 4 points 3 years ago

It’s gone now as of 1030 am PST 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Paramount +

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Naura 6 points 3 years ago

I wanted to watch supernova again, my husband and I watched the “ghost in the machine” last night. We were too tired to watch others. This morning it’s gone.

I am so fucking pissed right now.

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StillPaisleyCat 1 point 3 years ago

I thought it was supposed to be available until Tuesday?

Our BlueRay set for episodes 1-10 just arrived. I’m hoping that all the views and merchandise purchased in the past few days will diminish the value of Paramount’s write of while increasing residuals to the creators.

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Naura 2 points 3 years ago

Yea, that’s what I thought too so I wanted to watch my faves a few more times before it’s gone. I logged on and it’s not there. I went through my recent, searched prodigy and Star Trek. Nothing

ETA: just checked. It is 1210 PST. It is gone

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Trekman10 1 point 3 years ago

Is it gonna be removed from Crave?

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StillPaisleyCat 1 point 3 years ago

I’ve seen that much of Crave’s Star Trek catalogue is coming off in July.

You would need to look in the app to see if there’s some kind of last day notification.

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ValueSubtracted 1 point 3 years ago

I’ve seen that much of Crave’s Star Trek catalogue is coming off in July.

Where have you seen that? There's nothing on the list compiled by Mobile Syrup.

If true, that would be a significant development, signaling the end of a relationship between Paramount and Bell that's lasted far longer than I expected.

Not for nothing (but possibly not for much, either), Crave still has "Westworld" despite Warner pulling it from Max.

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StillPaisleyCat 2 points 3 years ago

Update - I have seen what the user on the Science Fiction Community was concerned about!

This is huge if not just an error in the Crave web pages.

If you go to the Crave pages for the various Star Trek shows, at the bottom there are ‘available to’ notices:

— Prodigy is available to July 24th

— Picard is available to July 31st

— Discovery to July 31st

— Lower Decks to July 31st

— TOS, TNG, Voyager, July 31st

— DS9 to July 24th

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ValueSubtracted 1 point 3 years ago

Well goshdarn it you're right, I see it too.

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.

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Hyacin 1 point 3 years ago

Oh thank God. Crave is the worst thing to happen to Streaming, ever. I would HAPPILY pay for a Paramount+ subscription (and stop d/ling stuff) to avoid having to try to watch things on Crave. Absolute garbage streaming quality, through the worst streaming app I've ever seen. Almost makes me wish Rogers won that war with the even worse service they had! At least when they brought it up to OTT standards they probably would have done a better job that the turkeys at Bell did with Crave. Does it even have 5.1? I'm quite sure it doesn't have HDR.

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StillPaisleyCat 1 point 3 years ago

It was a social media comment elsewhere. (From a user in one the Science Fiction communities here on Lemmy.)

I agree it would be a major change in the relationship with Bell Media for Canada. That said, it didn’t seem likely that Crave could retain its exclusive licence indefinitely as Paramount+ Canada should also be running the shows eventually.

We still have CTV Sci-fi Channel on Fibe, and still see all the classic shows in the forward 2 week schedule on Fibe. So I couldn’t validate.

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Trekman10 1 point 3 years ago

Nothing when I log in, and SNW is on Bell's page about July.

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