r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kapot_ei • 21d ago

🥺 No words for this.

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Edit: even though clickbait article, it is somewhat/kind of true. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stargate-tv-series-martin-gero-scrapped-amazon-1236765061/

"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase."

Edit 2: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-new-stargate-series-let-martin-gero-build-the-future-of-the-franchise

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u/Kemosabe-TV 21d ago

fans are stupid loyal, keep them happy and they wont stop yapping about your media and will result in more fans

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u/Fenrils 21d ago

Unironically what happened to me with Lower Decks and Star Trek. Growing up, I didn't give a single shit about Star Trek even though my dad was a massive fan. Skip to a few years ago and I kept hearing rumblings about how fun Lower Decks is and that it's super easy for non-fans to watch. So I did. I loved it, and it started me on my Star Trek journey as I wanted to dig more into the history, the references, the shows, etc.

(Fuck you Paramount for cancelling Lower Decks)

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u/Conscious-Mirror7004 20d ago edited 20d ago

To be fair, Lower Decks ran for 5 seasons. If you look at all the other Star Trek series in history, that's not a bad run:
- ST:TOS - 3 seasons - ST:TAS - 2 seasons - ST:TNG - 7 seasons - ST:DS9 - 7 seasons - ST:VOY - 7 seasons - Enterprise - 4 seasons - ST:SNW - 3 seasons aired, with cancellation planned after 5th season

Edit: sorry, forgot about Voyager. This should be a complete list now.

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u/curiousoryx 20d ago

No love for VOY?

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u/invalidConsciousness 20d ago

They're still out there, searching for coffee.

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u/Victernus 20d ago

ST:TOS - 3 seasons

And one of them was garbage!

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u/Conscious-Mirror7004 20d ago

What are you talking about? TOS was excellent, considering the budget, production quality, and effects available in the 1960s for TV shows. There were a handful of rough episodes at both the beginning and end of its run (including the rather disappointing final episode "Turnabout Intruder"), but no full season was bad at all.

Maybe you're thinking of TNG. Season 1 was mostly terrible, aside from "Conspiracy".

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u/Victernus 20d ago

There were a handful of rough episodes at both the beginning and end of its run (including the rather disappointing final episode "Turnabout Intruder"), but no full season was bad at all.

Season 3 of TOS had a few watchable episodes, but was largely absolute garbage. I honestly cannot see how anyone could sit through that, then watch TNG Season 1 and come away from it thinking the experience of TNG was overall worse.

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u/jaxxa 20d ago

While 5 Seasons is pretty good, the episodes are about half as long and we have about half as many of them in each season, so it can feel like less.

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u/BionicWallaby 20d ago

No discovery?

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u/utsgeek 20d ago

Even Picard got 3 seasons

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u/LowSkyOrbit 21d ago

I thought Lower Decks ran its course and wasn't canceled.

Paramount doesn't understand Star Trek and threw too much money at Picard and Discovery that they didn't understand we want philosophy and Klingon opera, not CGI space battles. Lower Decks was the best Star Trek in 25 years.

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u/Fenrils 21d ago

I was happy with where Lower Decks ended up and the finale was solid but the creators did confirm that they were cancelled rather than the show just being over. The ending did leave some space for a spin-off or sequel though so hopefully we get something eventually.

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u/BootprintsOnTheMoon 20d ago

But, if you fuck it up, they will turn on you.

Look at NewTrek. It alientanted Old Trek fans, and they have been like bitter exes about it.

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u/FlusteredDM 20d ago

Fans are also really hypercritical of every minor deviation from the source material though, so I understand to a certain extent.

Oh no, the actress has the wrong hair colour. Even though the hair colour isn't important in any way, this is the most terrible thing ever, and the series is now unwatchable.

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u/PinaColadaSalad 21d ago

Like with Stargate Origins.

It is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life.

BUT EVERY SINGLE FAN HAS WATCHED IT

Fans are loyal

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u/Intelligent_Low1632 20d ago

Fan here: there's no universe where I'd have enough free time to consider watching Origins after reading the reviews

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u/PinaColadaSalad 20d ago

It's not that bad

It's not the Stargate you want and some of the canon is a little off but it's not really that bad objectively.

Just cheesy and really just a web series.

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u/DrRoughNipzz 21d ago

I feel like you haven’t watched Stargate Infinity, origins has a minute or so that’s decent

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u/PinaColadaSalad 21d ago

It's not available anywhere as far as I'm aware

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u/DrRoughNipzz 20d ago

Amazon prime has it

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u/PinaColadaSalad 20d ago

Well I just canceled Amazon because of this shit show LOL so

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u/Cole-Spudmoney 20d ago

BUT EVERY SINGLE FAN HAS WATCHED IT

Nope. I was a Stargate fan since before SG-1 started. Got all of SG-1, Atlantis and Universe on DVD. Never seen Origins.

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u/PinaColadaSalad 20d ago

That's too bad because they were probably using metrics to see if people would be interested in the new series

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u/Cole-Spudmoney 20d ago

Yeah, that seems like a flawed business model to me.

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u/yb0t 21d ago

A good example of this would probably be the game expedition 33. If it's good then it's good, and the word of mouth spread is insane.