So, the new season of Star Trek Discovery starts today (or about now, anyway).
A few days ago announced that they were removing Discovery from Netflix worldwide, and it will only be available to view on Paramount+. The only slight problem is Paramount+ is not available in most countries outside of the US. So for most people, there is no legal way to watch it.

Do you want piracy? Because this is how you get piracy. I really don't know what the Paramount execs were thinking. Millions of people who would have paid to watch it will now find alternative ways of getting it, and Paramount won't see any money at all from it...

Yeah Paramount is really shooting themselves in the foot with that decision. It really makes no sense at all.

Oh, thank god those other countries will now be spared from that show.

Please no more time travel..

What's funny is that while there is no doubt that Star Trek has overused the time travel trope, I never hear people make the same complaint about Dr. Who.

Not sure if I am missing the sarcasm, but isn't the Doctor a "Time Lord?" If so, wouldn't that make time travel a key component of the show?

Dr Who, despite being a time lord and being able to travel through time, never used time travel to solve any of his problems

Time travel is a strange beastie. If it is the core of the story it can be a great device, but when it's introduced to a place where it never was before and is used in the most braindead way (let's go back and stop the thing from happening) it makes anything that ever happens utterly pointless. All storylines and all consequences are null and void.

(edit). Actually I stopped watching Dr Who at the end of Tom Baker's reign, so maybe I could be wrong

So you've been out of the Dr. Who loop for just a bit eh? ; )

I would think though that having time travel involved in every episode would eventually become repetitive.

Just a little

I think I may have watched some David Tennant episodes when my kids watched it but I don't have any strong recollections, just ambient TV.

Dr. Who uses time travel fairly well within the context of the series and who he is. I stopped watching, though, when things became overtly politically correct.

Judging by the lack of any hype for Dr. Who now it seems the current actress playing Dr. Who hasn't worked out very well. The producers jumped on the woke wagon and it didn't turn out like they thought it would.