Starfleet Academy - It's Happening

[The Beer Hall Pooch]

Each episode costs about $6-10 million to produce.

I sincerely hope and pray someone at Paramount gets put up against the wall and shot for this as a hard example to others.

(On a side note: the premiere episode of VOY cost $23 million to shoot and pulled an over the air audience of 21.3 million viewers.

You know, back when Star Trek was good?)

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Part of the reason VOY's pilot cost $23M was that they basically had to shoot it twice with recasting and other problems... but the show was single-handedly launching a new TV network so they were all-in no matter what it was gonna cost...

 

[Dr Dave]

Some of these fuckers better be getting hopped up on goofballs in the bathroom!

 

[The Beer Hall Pooch]

Part of the reason VOY's pilot cost $23M was that they basically had to shoot it twice with recasting and other problems... but the show was single-handedly launching a new TV network so they were all-in no matter what it was gonna cost...

That's true, but not a major factor. Bujold wasn't on the set that long. But now that you point it out, it being the flagship show (and the only survivor of Paramount's first season, IIRC), probably explains a lot of the spending... and it did look good.

 

[Mentalist]

Each episode costs about $6-10 million to produce.

I sincerely hope and pray someone at Paramount gets put up against the wall and shot for this as a hard example to others.

(On a side note: the premiere episode of VOY cost $23 million to shoot and pulled an over the air audience of 21.3 million viewers.

You know, back when Star Trek was good?)

Adjusted for inflation, Voyager was already in the $7–8 million per episode range, and it was pumping out 26 episodes a season. Starfleet Academy is looking at around 10 episodes, which is just the modern TV model.

On total spend alone, it’s cheaper than Voyager ever was.

 

[The Beer Hall Pooch]

Adjusted for inflation, Voyager was already in the $7–8 million per episode range, and it was pumping out 26 episodes a season. Starfleet Academy is looking at around 10 episodes, which is just the modern TV model.

On total spend alone, it’s cheaper than Voyager ever was.

With the viewership numbers to match.