Not all Star Trek: Discovery fans are happy with international roll-out

Star Trek: Discovery is coming to Pluto and Paramount+ for international viewers

As reported earlier, Paramount+ and Pluto TV will air the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery beginning Friday, November 26. While this gives some international fans the chance to see the series provided its in their market, it leaves others still out in the cold. And fans are letting Star Trek know that it isn’t okay to pitch in a few countries and leave out fans of the others.

After Anthony Rapp shared the announcement on his Twitter page, his fans responded with happiness diluted with anger over those that will be left out on Friday.

@SmartBearDermot thanked Rapp for sharing the news, but added “but this move only provides partial availability to around 30 countries, and about 130 are still left with nothing. Had they temporarily reinstated the netflix deal they could have fixed it properly.”

@MrMarmite was thankful to Rapp as well but commented that “this doesn’t cover everyone who could watch it before and now will be riddled with commercials and lower quality.”

Star Trek: Discovery fans expressed their displeasure to Star Trek as well

After the information about Star Trek: Discovery’s upcoming debut for select international fans was shared on Star Trek’s official Twitter account, some responding tweets weren’t as thankful as many were concerned with having to pay an additional fee for Paramount+ when they already had Netflix. Still others were aggravated that this rollout only includes a small amount of countries Netflix had previously reached.

@oldtem called the decision “a half measure.” And in a different tweet said “People being all “yay, so happy for the international fans!” didn’t read the actual article on the site, right? It’s still not available “internationally”. This is a very cleverly worded tweet so everyone thinks it’s available everywhere. It’s not. The situation still sucks.”

To put it simply, removing the series from Netflix was a decision that affected millions of fans around the globe, and those that still won’t be able to see the series are understandably upset. While some international fans will be able to see it, that doesn’t help the ones that can’t. So while Star Trek execs might be patting themselves on the back for what they consider a solution, that’s not how a large percentage of the international population sees it.