Hall H, Saturday, July 22, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

  • theinspectorst
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    2111 months ago

    The last time I paid money to go to a Star Trek fan event was Destination Star Trek in London in 2021. Most of the Discovery cast were there promoting season 4. The big screens in the halls for talks even had the season 4 trailer airing, prominently announcing the airing date. The first episode was due less than a week after DST and they were really building up the hype.

    Two days after the convention, they announced they were pulling Discovery from Netflix and solely airing season 4 on their shitty in-house streaming service, whose launch date in the UK was still ‘tbc’.

    Then the mods on r/startrek decided not to enforce spoiler protections for season 4 after it aired in the US, so I got spoiled for the general plot over the course of the next few months. My enthusiasm to watch it dwindled to the extent that, even now that Paramount+ is available here, I still haven’t made it more than a few episodes in.

    The moral of the story is: fuck Paramount+.

  • Value SubtractedOPMA
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    1711 months ago

    It might be a pretty sparse panel if the writers and actors are on strike.

    • @TotalElipse
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      1111 months ago

      Yeah, I’m interested to see what SDCC in general ends up looking like, dunno what the rules are about doing panels/promotion during the strike.

    • @dekekun@lemmy.world
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      911 months ago

      It’s okay, they’ll just cancel the panel and remove it before it got a chance to get a big fanbase anyway for some sweet tax credits.

    • Nmyownworld
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      111 months ago

      I don’t know the strike rules, but with the WGA possibly still being on strike, and SAG possibly going out on strike, during Comic-Con I’m imagining the panels to consist of non-union background actors who never had speaking roles and aren’t in the WGA. Some mild dishing about behind the scenes.

  • @triktrek
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    111 months ago

    I mean, what else could they promote instead? Those are the only shows still in production or have entire unreleased seasons.