TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

I pay for 4 streaming services AND Cable and still pull everything down to Jellyfin/Plex.

We also pay for Apple Music, and I keep a copy of all the music we listen to and have playlists.

I am completely down for paying for content because I want it made, but I'll be damned if I'm letting them take it away from me because an executive needs another yacht or two multi-millionaires are squabbling over rights.

Same here. Haven’t used Emby but the Plex interface is just so much better than any streaming service.

I do exactly the same. The convenience of Emby is just too nice.

If you value having a computer free of malware, there are much better indexes than The Pirate Bay.

I'm using the webos built in app. LG tv.

I'll do you one better, my local library has plenty of disc sets for series. They have a lot of the ones usually locked behind additional subscriptions too.

I'll be deep in the Goddes's embrace before I pronounce it "oRiOn", you blue-skinned bastard!

I hate Paramount with every fiber of my being. I bought a year for the Daily Show, and every effing morning it fails over and over again to play episodes. Their rating is like 1-2 stars, with almost every review mentioning issues like that. They just don't give a shit, and I can't watch the Daily Show anywhere else without buying an expensive cable package.

It's how Hulu started too, it was a magical time. Watch 1 30 second ad before each episode.

Yes. It's originally how I saw all 3 seasons of TOS from start to finish back in high school.

Maybe for the US but up here in Canada it's hit and miss ... they'll have a lot of Star Trek shows but then skip some (including Prodigy)

All this complication just makes it all feel like the early 2000s all over again .... everyone is just going to drift towards pirating because it won't be worth it for everyone to buy this service, that service and managed four or five services to watch their favourite shows. It's much easier to just pay for a VPN and torrent all the stuff you want for one price.

I'm going to guess that in about five years, streaming companies will collapse into a few providers selling majority of content for a more manageable price .... either that or they'll find ways to severely lock down the internet for everyone.

Or it will be like the DS9 alternate timeline of 2025 and we'll need to have an internet pass in order to get online to do anything.

They apparently have Showtime and Nickelodeon's catalog, along with CBS and MTV. Their originals aren't anything I've seen before. Some are spinoffs of popular shows.

I think it has a lot of stuff that airs on CBS. So like Survivor or Amazing Race. Maybe Colbert?

I remember reading a long time ago in the 90s how Roddenberry had hoped to develop their own network or entire studio just dedicated to developing the Star Trek universe with endless series, shows and movies. There's so much content there and so much more possible through actual productions and even fan content, books and writing that they could develop something like it.

I'm pretty sure I'll just spend the rest of my life watching Trek over and over again. I've watched several series now and it's been years since I saw some that when I go to watch them again, it's like seeing them again for the first time. By the time I get Alzheimers or some degenerative brain disease, it will all be completely new to me anyway.