CBS Will Be Releasing New STAR TREK Series Week By Week

If you thought maybe you could just catch the new online-only Star Trek series by binging in a weekend and dropping the new platform, CBS already planned for that. The Atlantic reports the network will be ensuring you hold onto their subscription by only giving one episode a week of the new series throughout 2017.

CBS president Les Moonves expresses pride in the fact that many people will flock to the program:

“We could have cashed in for a lot of money, selling it to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu … they were all very interested in it...We know that Star Trek is a high-priced, quality product … there are a lot of very rabid Star Trek fans who are going to sign up for it.”

Leave it to classic network television to attempt to ruin everything everyone loves about streaming. Of course, they don't understand that cord cutters are leaving BECAUSE it's different than television.

As much as I want to take part in a new Star Trek series, I cannot, and will not, be chained to a less-than-great platform wishing to keep the old guard alive with its archaic tactics. If that means a good series gets cancelled, fine. It's not like that doesn't happen to us all the time whether we like it or not anyway...what's one more?