Edit: I've edited the post (I nearly forgot I could do that here!).

I appreciate the apparent Birth of the Federation aspect as briefly seen in the trailer. I loved BotF and I've missed it terribly. However, I am still irrationally annoyed by the note that this game takes place "decades" before TNG, yet Galaxy-class, Intrepid-class, and other newer vessels are featured. (This would have been the best opportunity to feature ships from the "lost era" between the Kirk feature films and TNG, such as Ambassador-class, Constellation-class, and any number of ships seen as wreckage at Wolf 359.)

If anyone is interested in the math of this, meaning, what you get out of it for what you put in, here's my way of thinking.

I look at new MST3K in the vein of RiffTrax. Not beholden to a network and therefore not getting production funding either, so they have to directly charge for their output.

In the case of RiffTrax, they charge about $12 for a full-length HD VOD release and about $2 for a short. Carting those numbers over to this campaign, let's see what we get.

If the lowest goal is reached ... That's 6 episodes and 6 shorts for a total of $84. (There's also the "enhanced" older episodes, but as those won't be available for download, I'm ignoring them for the moment.)

If the middle goal is reached ... That's 9 episodes and 9 shorts; a total of $126.

If the top goal is reached ... 12 episodes, 12 shorts; $168.

Which goal will be reached? Who can say? The season 13 Kickstarter finished with $6.5 million. That's over the middle goal but shy of the top goal by almost a million. I think reaching the middle goal is very likely with the top being a bit of squeaker. (Just my thoughts.)

Conclusion? Donating at the $85 level is simply a bargain. You get each of the episodes and shorts as a download, PLUS access to the Gizmoplex which -- I'm hoping -- will include a ton of livestreaming events and those were a highlight of season 13 for me. (Oh yeah, and all those "surgically enhanced" episodes, too.)

Unfortunately, that's not the only article talking about Paramount's woes. Here's another which suggests that Netflix may be looking to buy pieces of Paramount.

Thank you.

I hope you enjoy it!

If that's the case, I'm on board with that. (BotF did the same thing.)

Thanks. I hope you enjoy it.

Try this link?

I honestly don't know. (Wouldn't surprise me if it's Vimeo's doing.) Sorry.

We only have a few rules here ... one of them is "be nice to each other." So knock this off.

We only have a few rules here ... one of them is "be nice to each other." So knock this off.

Both of you were reported; both were given the same message.