10 Times Star Trek Refused To Give Fans What They Wanted
5. Making Discovery "Streaming-Only" In The U.S.
In the past decade we've seen dozens of new streaming services pop up from all of the major players in the industry. Paramount, the company that owns Trek, released their streaming service, Paramount+ (formerly called CBS All Access), in 2014.
In 2015, Leslie Moonves revealed that Star Trek shows on the streaming service were performing 'exceedingly well,' and, as a result, the newly announced show Star Trek: Discovery would release exclusively on CBS All Access in The United States as the service's first original series (though other countries like Canada were able to watch it on TV, as All Access had not yet been made available there).
This upset a lot of fans when the news first came out. Netflix dominated the streaming industry at this time, and many people were adamantly against the idea of paying for multiple streaming services. Others were simply worried that limiting the shows availability to streaming-only would make it flop, damaging Trek in an effort to boost the subscriptions for All Access.
Fortunately for fans, Discovery was a success and prompted the network to produce more and more Trek content. However, the stability of this worldwide distribution would be short-lived. When Discovery was removed from Netflix outside North America, many fans simply couldn't stream the show as Paramount+ was not yet available in the region.