Netflix will make Bryan Fuller’s new CBS Star Trek series available to 188 countries outside of the USA and Canada, but Americans and Canadians are out of luck, a Netflix press release reveals.
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That means within 24 hours of its United States premiere on the network, Netflix users across the globe – 188 countries, to be exact – will be able to revel in CBS’ rebooted series. Netflix will make the new Star Trek TV series available to subscribers across 188 countries, with it having the distinction of being the “exclusive premiere home” for the show in all of those countries except the U.S. and Canada.
“The launch of the new “Star Trek” will truly be a global television event”. Although the first episode will go out on CBS’ main network, all subsequent episodes will stream on CBS All Access. Unlike one of Netflix’s original series, CBS is going to air episodes of the new Trek once per week just like the olden days before the Internet. That’s 727 episodes of Star Trek coming your way by the end of 2016 to get you pumped for the new Trek next year.
Although this news may not be as exciting for subscribers in Canada and the US, it is entirely possible that things could change in the future and the same catalogue could become available for them as well.
Netflix is calling itself the “exclusive premiere home” of the new Star Trek series, but that might not be entirely accurate.
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Conversely, the crux of Star Trek Beyond’s limitations mainly fall to its villain, Krall (Idris Elba), who acts as a villainous cliché we’ve already seen from the rebooted franchise: He wants to destroy the Federation, because reasons!
