Midnight's Edge is a channel that have a proven track record. You may not like them but they choose their reporters based upon those who have no vested interest or bias towards a franchise and therefore no agenda to warp the truth. They're a very reliable source of behind the scenes rumblings. I'd say at an estimate, 85-95% of their leaks have been proven to be correct once the film/TV shows are released, months down the line, and the dust has settled.
Again, as someone who's not into Star Trek myself, it seems a little bit like some folk within this thread are sticking their fingers in their ears and poo-pooing all reports simply because they don't want the series to be a failure. I hope that the show is good because I don't want the fans to be upset but sometimes you have to be realistic and objective about these things and judge them upon probability of likelihood. At the very least, entertain the notion that the reports might be correct.
They confidently predicted the cancellation of Star Trek Discovery after the first season and then again after the second (season 3 is currently in pre-production). They also claimed that Netflix were dropping the international rights to the show after the first season because they weren’t satisfied with its performance (Netflix did continue to carry the show, of course, including the Short Treks series which, again, Midnight’s Edge insisted would not be on the service). They pushed an embarrassingly contrived consipracy theory about the producers scheming to destroy the “canon” of the original series through some nefarious trickery involving licensing. I believe the gist was that the current franchise was legally required to exist in a distinct universe from the orignal shows, by some arbitrary measure (in reality, Discovery season 2 ended up using footage taken directly from The Cage as well as several characters from the original series, and of course the Picard show will exist in the same continuity as TNG and it’s film spin-offs – even incorporating certain plot elements from the Abrams films, according to the plot sypnosis. CBS does actually own the franchise outright at this point and Midnight Edge’s handwringing about “licenses” is really just confused nonsense).
I’m sorry, but I see this guy cited religiously in discussions about this show and everything I’ve seen from him just unravels instantly into feeble guesswork, misrepresentation and confirmation bias.
Incidentally, I’ve got very mixed feelings about Discovery and I can see a million ways they could fuck up the Picard show. I think Alex Kurtzman is a complete hack and any reduction in his creative involvement in Star Trek would be a plus for me. But… honestly I’ve lost my train of thought. I hope there’s a bit where Picard says “make it so” to his dog for some reason.
