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As part of their bid to get people interested, Paramount released the first episode of its new Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy, for free on YouTube. At nearly the same time, as counter-programming, the YouTube channel Red Letter Media released a video discussing what many consider Star Trek\u2019s greatest effort, Deep Space Nine. <\/p>\n
Both have now been online for more than twenty-four hours, and the results are shocking. Paramount\u2019s new series only has 82,000 views. Red Letter Media\u2019s Star Trek<\/a>: Deep Space Nine discussion has 380,000 views. There are far more people interested in revisiting the franchise\u2019s golden age than there are viewers willing to sit through an hour of their latest effort.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t an aberration, and it\u2019s not a phenomenon isolated to elder Gen Xers talking about the good old days. Interest in older Star Trek shows has grown almost in direct proportion to the release of newer, and generally less well-regarded, Star Trek shows. <\/p>\n There\u2019s an entire, growing subculture of podcasts and video presentations from Millennials and Zoomers marveling at older Star Trek as they watch it for the first time. Some of these have been viewed by millions. <\/p>\n Our own Star Trek retrospective videos on Giant Freakin Robot\u2019s relatively small YouTube<\/a> channel tend to be some of the most popular things we do. More people watch what we say about the golden age of Star Trek than there are people watching the increasingly terrible Star Trek content Paramount<\/a> puts out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n One of Giant Freakin Robot\u2019s most popular Star Trek videos, a tribute to Star Trek: Enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Joshua Tyler | Published 1 hour ago As part of their bid to get people interested, Paramount…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,197804,11878,197805,32228,9280],"class_list":["post-412344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-red-letter-media","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-deep-space-nine","tag-star-trek-starfleet-academy","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-136.png\")
Paramount\u2019s video versus Red Letter Media\u2019s<\/p>\n