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Finally, I'll add this.
People will argue over the profitability of such an endeavor.
"Mac and Me" got a 4k bluray release, ****ing "Mac and Me"
All of 3 people are gonna purchase that disk.
"Mac and Me" got a remaster before DS9 and Voyager.
Another Example, is "Tammy and TRex", that's gonna gonna make someone pivot to 4k,
I've never heard anyone say "I didn't know if I wanted 4k bluray, then I learned about Tammy and the Trex on the format and invested a thousand dollars in a dolby vision home theater system."
With the cancellation of Colbert's iteration of "the Late Show" Jon Stewart recently said "these shows are what made you money." In an excellent rebuke to corporate crackhead logic.
DS9 and Voyager kept that franchise afloat for 9 years, and made money, and still makes money.
I don't want to hear the profitability argument, they're probably more profitable than most of the content on Paramount's streaming platform, including SNW, I bet DS9 and Voyager in their remastered forms, would make more money than state of the art productions.
DS9 and Voyager had heart. The problem with new Star Trek productions is that it's content, it has no soul, and that soul can tank any LED video walls.
Since to some, LED video walls are now the thing that make a production good.
I've had that argument..."It's a state of the art production, it's better." It's really not.
The lighting is good, and I like anamorphic lenses, but... the costumes feel cheap, the sets feel cheap, LED video walls, digital cameras, Dolby Vision, and Unreal 5 don't make a production good. They make a good image, but they can't make up for bad storytelling, and a pointless string of franchise shit.
DS9 and Voyager, those were made with care and love. Modern productions feel like more franchise for franchise sake, Akiva Goldsman couldn't impart meaning to these shows like he did with Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman on Fringe, which is a tragedy in and of itself.
Jericho got a second season because there were bags of peanuts sent to CBS. I sent one. 25 tons of Peanuts got a renewal.
That second season was made on a shoestring budget, and I'm betting it cost more in 2008 than DS9 would cost to remaster now.
Several of those projects get greenlit, and cancelled in a year, and obviously make less money for that company than DS9 and Voyager make now.
A remaster is more than warranted.
Right now, (profitability/viability vs. cost) is a horseshit argument, it's smoke and mirrors.
This studio could stare moderate profit in the face, and still chose obvious failure, and me being humble, can look at this and be like.
Take the last three seasons of Discovery, and the first two seasons of Picard, the most hated Star Trek Productions of all time, they cost for 50 episodes 300 million dollars, and probably made less money for CBS than a 40 million dollar remastering project.
Those numbers should tell you, anyone defending failure vs even moderate success, should be rebuked.
I know Mac and Me isn't from Paramount, but the fact that the industry can release that, tells me it's not all profit and lace.
If you care, check my modified post above for the links, grassroots can be successful sometimes.