Link: https://www.change.org/p/renew-star-trek-starfleet-academy-for-a-third-season

We urge Paramount to listen to the voices of millions of fans who are yearning for more adventures in the Starfleet Academy. Renewing the show for a third season is not just a business decision; it's about continuing a legacy, honouring storytelling, and nurturing a global community of Trekkers.

I don't know, Im not a fan of the Kurtzman-era Trek. I'd prefer it if they'd create a series that's closer in tone to the earlier stuff.

While that may be your view, I hope you’re not going to work against the show or shows like it either.

Because very many people who between 40 and 55 did brigade against this show, gave it very negative reviews, and discouraged others from watching it without watching a full episode themselves. To the point that Psychology Today wrote a feature article The Trouble With Review Bombing.

Anyone over 35 is not in the key demographic. I dare say that’s most 90s Star Trek fans and most of us on this board.

But if we go out of our way to say that if it’s not made for us we’ll attack it relentlessly so that younger, target viewers won’t even try it, then it’s not going to serve anyone.

And yes, I have seen the entire season of SFA. I watched it with my partner and one of our GenZ kids. And I have signed the petition.

Ok, so we're all wrong.

They cancelled the show because no one watched it, despite free episodes.

They put the show on a small niche streamer that doesn’t have an audience in the demographic that the show was made for.

The show did much better on Amazon channels than on Paramount+ — ranking 1 or 2 across its run. That tells you that the problem is that Paramount+ has narrowed its audience to Sheridanverse fans, not that the show isn’t good.

Every show Paramount+ has tried to attract the younger GenZ audience with has failed. And the streamer is failing — which is why Paramount has been bought and the streamer will be merged with HBO Max.

Am I the only one who thinks that a change.org petition would be way less effective than a TOS-style actual-paper-letter-writing campaign?

I can't remember which show it was, but fans wrote in letters on KFC bucket packaging because KFC was a major advertiser on the show.

You could be right. But then, why can't we have both?

It's not that you're "all" wrong, it's that you insist nobody else is right to like something you decided you didn't without watching it.

There were people who followed the show and liked it. The number of signers to the petition vastly outnumber the downvotes to my posts sharing it here. You can deal with that gracefully, or continue as you started 🤷

That's my take as well. I’ve only seen one ep and I liked it. I just haven’t found the time to get access to it bc I won’t subscribe to bullshit services.

So for Paramount Plus, guess we have to write in on... Trump letterhead?

That is your opinion.

I’m a huge fan of Kurtzman and all the New Trek that he created. I love them all. I often rewatch Discovery, Picard, even Academy. I need it. I need this. The entire world is gone to shit, and his shows, his creations, are the only thing that sooth me right now.

These comments, like the one you just made, are exactly why Academy has been cancelled, why Discovery was cut short, and so forth.

I truly dislike Star Wars. And yet, you’ll never see me bitching about it in their forums. I don’t think about it at all until something about it shows up, and even then, I just ignore it and move along, like any normal person would do.

If you don’t like it, if it’s not for you, then just don’t watch it, but shut the fuck up!!!! Let those who enjoy it, enjoy it.

Yes, "you’re entitled to your opinion etc.", but do you absolutely have to ruin it for everyone else?!? You’re part of the problem here.

You, and all others with their continuous vile comments, bear part of the responsibility in the cancellation of a beloved, respected show.

I did both I'm also doing a hunger strike outside Paramount's headquarters

Really a petition on a data collection site and an AI photo 🙄

It's fine if people voice their opinions whether in agreement or disagreement.

From his perspective, you're part of the problem because you're advocating for resources to be spent on what you prefer over what he prefers.

So, what you’re telling me is, we should just take it like a good docile doggy and let all the new trek and its show runner be bullied into oblivion by trolls, incels and haters?

Because that’s exactly what you’re saying by taking their defence.

Starfleet Academy fucking REEKS of being one of those instances where someone had a story concept that was too weak to stand on its own so they slapped a beloved existing IP over it and called it a day. I'm glad its getting canceled, that sort of thing should never be rewarded. It's lazy and insulting to the fans of whatever IP they stole to try to prop up their mediocre story.

They just said they didn’t like it. Chill.

Do you happen to know any alternatives to suggest?

That is your opinion. Your argument that only your opinion may be spoken is invalid.

That is not what I wrote.

No, we’re telling you to maybe not jump down the throat of anyone who says “I dunno, I didn’t like it” like they are actively trying to kill your puppy. This post is taking up space in everyone’s feed, calling them to go sign. There is absolutely nothing wrong with someone saying “eh, nah.”

Yes it is. You told anyone who doesn’t like it to shut the fuck up.

If you don’t like it, if it’s not for you, then just don’t watch it, but _shut the fuck up!!!!_

Now let me get some🍿 and watch you dance about trying to argue that you didn’t say this.

I'm saying you need to touch grass and let people voice their own opinion of a TV show.

This "shut up or agree with me" mentality is nuts.

Damn, I never said you shouldn't like the show, or that it's objectively bad. I just expressed my preference for the direction of future trek projects, in what I thought was a relevant thread.

You know it's okay to enjoy something without making it your entire personality right? Leave your unfounded generalisations in the trash where they belong.

I'm with you, i couldn't watch past 3rd episode, it was just too cringe inducing for me. I love Strange New Worlds though, i don't want that atrocity that is Academy poison the Star Trek well.

I've wanted a star trek academy since the TNG Episode The First Duty.

My brother and I have discussed many different ideas for the show.

What we got was so so so disappointing to everything I wanted out of that environment.

Sorry it's not a show I care to support. Sorry for your loss. Please let it die

Yeah. An actual image of the show. And a spreadsheet that is readable

Yes. Let NuTrek die.

"Millions" of fans.

Viewership is so low for this series, I doubt it comes close to just one million.

A significant portion of the positive user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are bots, very obviously bots (I can post examples if you don't believe me). But even with all the botting it cannot get a marginally decent user score.

I could say "just leave it die", but I'm confident enough there aren't enough of you who actually like the series to make a difference.

So...uh... Good luck.

It's not Trek. The negative reviews are deserved.

I highly doubt any of this. A good series can attract people to a platform.

Problem is, nothing NuTrek has comes even close to be something platform-attracting. That says more about the quality than the platform itself.

Make more Prodigy instead and turn SFA into the CW school drama it was supposed to be

oh, I'm sure the infantile writing and shallow characters had nothing to do with it.

o you absolutely have to ruin it for everyone else?!? You’re part of the problem here.

So we're supposed to watch bad TV for some kind of social conscience and responsibility? and if we don't watch what we like, we are "The Problem".

I'm getting an insight into modern Star Trek fans here.

No television show will make you feel as you did when you were a child, watching star trek for the first time.

I watched Star Trek the first time as an adult. I just personally find the writing much better and the characters much more believable in the earlier series.

Hey, remember that guy who wanted to hypersexualize Troi, 7 of 9, T'Pol, Sato etc?
That guy sure as hell didn't poison the well, huh?