• Especially_the_lies@startrek.website
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      2 years ago

      I just want to know what Paramount executive OK’d this episode but didn’t then immediately begin production on moopsy-related items to purchase. I need a moopsy plush!

      • Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.websiteOP
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        The same idiot that didn’t immediately greenlight Strange New Worlds. Also happens to be the same idiot staring at Star Trek: Legacy and deciding whether or not to greenlight it.

          • Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.websiteOP
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            Disney are masters at marketing. CBS/Paramount have no clue what they’re doing.

            In other words, when it comes to marketing (and a considerable number of other decisions) Disney are the Romulans. Don’t always make the right decision, and they definitely don’t make friends, but they’re effective and insidious.

            CBS/Paramount might as well be Pakleds. Effectively braindead and somehow stumbling through just enough success to keep themselves alive.

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              It wasn’t even necessarily Disney’s lead on this one. Lucasfilm has always used Star Wars as a vehicle to sell toys, and that didn’t change since the Disney acquisition.

              Granted, Disney is good at that as well, so it was a pretty good match up.