Star Trek’s streaming home, Paramount+, isn’t satisfying fans

Star Trek’s home, Paramount+, isn’t living up to its counterparts.

Historians may look back at this time period and laugh, due to all the current madness around streaming services. Everyone seemingly has one and no one can afford them all it seems, and even if they could, why would you want to? There’s either not enough content to justify signing up for all the streaming services, or there’s too much content to shift through when you’re trying to relax.

There’s a reason so many people prefer watching television and going to movie theaters still. It’s simpler, easier, and, shockingly cheaper. And that’s become obvious. Satisfaction among streaming giants is down as rates go up, and as content gets taken away.

According to Variety satisfaction is down across the board. MAX went from a 92% satisfaction in 2021 to an 88%. Hulu went from 89% to 87% across the same span. Disney+ went from 88% to 85%, Netflix went from 90% to 77%, and Prime Video went from 75% to 74%.

Not every outlet dropped, with Apple TV+ going from 62% to 81%, and Peacock rising from 62% to 74%. Paramount+ also rose, slightly, going from 75% to 79%, a figure they’ve held for two straight years. Yet, that was before the mass cancelations.

And that’s what needs to be pointed out, every single one of these services either gutted their content library, canceled popular shows, raised their prices, or applied some other restrictive and abrasive new measure to their service.

2024 will be vastly different for Star Trek and Paraount+

While Paramount+’s satisfaction has risen over the last two years, it’s important to note that the service still ranks in the bottom half of customer satisfaction, and it’s one of the few that stagnated.

With concern that Star Trek: Lower Decks could be canceled after this most recent season, and the cancellations of Picard, Prodigy, and Discovery, Trek fans are not going to be happy. Not to mention there hasn’t been any headway made on the Section 31 film, the new Starfleet Academy show and Trek 4 is still in some hazy limbo.

So Star Trek fans are likely to not be happy about the current state of Paramount+. That doesn’t even factor in others who may be unhappy, like those who were all in on the iCarly revival. Things are expected to get worse for the series that the streaming giant owns too, as the biggest revelation is that fans seem to enjoy the film offerings on the service, not the series.

This could mean that more shows get canceled to free up funds to do more reasonably priced films. It’s very likely that the 2024 graph will show a decrease in satisfaction among subscribers, and it shouldn’t shock you if that ends up being the case.