Star Trek Discovery on VHS!

There was that huge curved ball that CBS/Paramount bowled late last year when they removed Star Trek Discovery from Netflix just days before it was due to premiere. The press release was a classic example of working to the rules of positivity when a more empathic approach was needed for an action that affected every fan who didn't live in North America. The bottom line was "No more new Star Trek until your country gets Paramount+ as a streaming service. 

To say it created a storm of protest is an understatement and no doubt, had this been the late 60s, a harsh letter writing campaign would no doubt result in the company's postal room being snowed under for several weeks.

But this isn't the 1960s. It's the space year 2022 and there are solutions to these sort of problems and these solutions can be sorted out immediately.

Star Trek Discovery was quickly transferred to the CBS owned zombie streaming service PlutoTV where it "airs" for free at 9pm every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. It means everyone can see the episodes for free. Not at a time of their choosing admittedly but isn't that what TV was like in the 60s.

And there we are... back to the 60s again. Who knows, we might even get a revamp of the original 60s pilot episode to emphasise the comparison further?

This is all a roundabout way to present these two retro VHS covers I did. Back to the 90s though when we had to watch Star Trek The Next Generation et al on a two episode a month basis through the magic of VHS. It cost £9.99 a month too and took up yards of shelf space by the seventh season... Ah, the nostalgic memories... We never had it so good... did we???

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Some more Star Trek Pike stuffs...

Apparently my earlier faux Star Trek novel cover - based on the original James Blish novelisation - featuring Anson Mount and Ethan Peck as Captain Pike and Lt. Spock was quite popular. So popular that I'm sure that Anson Mount is getting a little fed up with his Twitter feed being cluttered with retweets of it from his adoring fans. Thank you for that.

Here's a few more early Star Trek variants featuring the new old cast of the spin-off that whilst it's so obvious that it should be produced, won't be knowing the complicated legalities of the Star Trek franchise at CBS. 

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A Star Trek Discovery book cover...

What the third season of Star Trek Discovery should be in a nutshell...


















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