This is a sign that Star Trek, at least with Alex Kurtzman in charge, has become too expensive to warrant keeping around. Yet, Tyler Sheridan is making his 45th Yellowstone show around the same plot. We’ve gone nearly three full years without a new show being announced, despite there being a dozen rumors a year about what’s “in the works”. Prodigy wasn’t even a streaming show at the time, it was a Nickelodeon show, that Paramount+ stole to help bolster their subscriber numbers. Despite Yellowstone apparently getting spinoffs left, right, and center, there has not been a new Star Trek show announced since 2020, when Prodigy and Strange New Worlds were both announced. It turns out that letting people make vanity projects that cater to a minor amount of people was a bad idea.

Star Trek is in trouble even if no one is saying it This pressure from their debt holders to finally turn a profit has given Paramount CFO Naveen Chopra a new business model for 2023 and beyond raise subscription prices and cut costs. See what happens when everything needs to be “movie quality”?ĭespite there being rumors of a Rafi and Worf spin-off series (ugh), the constantly “in development” Section 31 series, and a slew of other rumors, Star Trek’s parent company is cutting spending on Paramount+ due to mounting losses.Īpparently none of these major streaming services, not even Disney+ if you can believe it, have yet to turn a profit. Paramount+ is cutting its spending, and there are few if any shows more expensive on their service than Star Trek to produce. HBO Max is canceling many of their more successful shows simply because they can’t afford to keep them going, the WWE Network sold itself to Peacock, Disney is thinking of spinning off (or selling) ESPN, Netflix is billions in debt, and now Paramount+ is also showing off how the change in the streaming economy is affecting things. We’ve been warning fans for three years that the market bubble around the streaming industry was going to burst. Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard were likely canceled due to cost-cutting by Paramount.

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