Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan recently explained why the show, which debuted last week, does not have an undercover distributor for a foreign audience.
On August 4, in an appearance on the How To Kill An Hour podcast, McMahan explained that the production of Star Trek: Lower Deck, and the upcoming partnership with a foreign distributor, had been conducted through the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Related: Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 1 – Second Contact: Should I be satisfied with any work you can get?
Without a distributor, Star Trek: Lower Decks is available exclusively to Americans at CBS All Access and Canadians through CTV’s Sci channel.
Related: CBS Star Trek All Access: Review of Rotten Tomatoes from Lower Decks and Revealed Audience Scores
McMahan made it very clear that he and the team were running him, saying, “I need everyone in the world to watch this show. And I think anything that the Internet doesn’t take into account, you know, it’s still a mystery, you see like, “Oh, what’s CBS doing?”
He continued to point out his displeasure at saying too much in public, declaring, “CBS needs everyone to see it too. I have to be careful here, because I silence the radio because I don’t need to communicate outside my shift because those agreements, the conclusion of contracts, are nothing that interests me. The Trill symbiote is called a symbiote, not symbiote».
The showrunner then proceeded to drop the bomb that the global COVID-19 epidemic interrupted its initial launch program, revealing that “there is a way in the works for you to see.” I don’t know the schedule, but the explanation of why you don’t know it yet is by COVID… because everything we did for the production was absolutely rejected. “
McMahan admits that the series went much earlier than expected for the team, because ‘A lot of what we do [for’ Lower Decks] was changed two months earlier because they were juggling schedules and everything. Many of the other entertainment teams, when you combine those elements, can’t move as fast as [us in production]. “
Related: A new rumor is causing disruption in CBS’s Star Trek projects, adding new worlds and decreasing decks!
A little later in the episode, McMahan also explained that he had been discreet about those disorders in the scenes due to the concept of making CBS look like, ‘We were about to conclude [the foreign agreement], but then you said something and now other people have to wait a month longer’, because it confuses a case or something … People have been running for a long time, and I agree that other people tweet their frustrations to me. They gave it to me. I’ve been frustrated to close a million times before. »
I would end up on the subject of foreign distribution of Lower Decks with a commitment: “But my precedence is that you get it as temporarily as possible. So I know it’s frustrating, but it’s a symptom of the progression of our entire timeline. . We didn’t expect to do the first [already in August], but because the cases are what they are, it was vital for us to make this known in the world. And we had the ability to do it safely.
In an editorial, Andre in Midnight’s Edge explored why new CBS Star Trek access lacks release.
As noted above, McMahan explains why The Lower Decks company was shipped without a distribution plan abroad.
Rob from Midnight’s Edge also pointed out in another video how neither Netflix nor Amazon, arguably the two largest streamers on Earth, didn’t want to distribute Star Trek Lower Decks for CBS. With Netflix acting as a distributor for Star Trek: Discovery and Amazon for Star Trek: Picard; it is strange that neither entity had been in line to take on the show.
This is the only disturbing news from the animated show, as several media outlets discovered that the series was not so pleasant.
Related: CBS accused of blocking Star Wars Star Trek: The Reaction of Reduced Covers and Video Review
Mike Hale of the New York Times reviewed the first episode and relied on the show’s “writing lazy jokes.”
Polygon wasn’t much more enjoyable, as critic Samantha Nelson noted that the first episode of the series “quickly mixes into a series of lazy sitcom tropes.”
As for the comics, Spencer Baculi looked at Lower Decks and observed that, whatever CBS has created, it’s not for Trekkies, as he wrote: “Ultimately, the most heinous facet of Lower Decks is the fact that, transparently, it’s not made for Star Trek. Fans. Between modest attempts at humor and the transparent rejection of the franchise’s exclusive elements, it is transparent what Lower Decks produced with the main objective of courting the unexplored market of informal viewers.”
With all these reviews, one has to loudly wonder if the problem is really corona or a lack of interest from distributors such as Amazon and Netflix who may prefer to spare themselves the disaster that is Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Get My Bounding Into Comics Newsletter