Wikipedia is in on the shilling too! I was reading the Wikipedia article on Star Trek Discovery, and I scrolled down to the Critical Response section and noticed that they ONLY print the critic ratings and not the user ratings. Not many people weigh the critic reviews that heavily, and I wanted to add the user reviews so I went to edit mode on Wikipedia and this came up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star_Trek:_Discovery&action=edit§ion=16
===Critical response===
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The [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported an 82% approval rating for the first season, with an average rating of 7.07/10 based on 65 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Although it takes an episode to achieve liftoff, ''Star Trek: Discovery'' delivers a solid franchise installment for the next generation—boldly led by the charismatic Sonequa Martin-Green."<ref name="RT">{{cite web|url=
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_trek_discovery/s01|title=Star Trek: Discovery: Season 1|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=December 18, 2018}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 72 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="MC">{{cite web|url=
http://www.metacritic.com/tv/star-trek-discovery|title=''Star Trek: Discovery'' – Season 1 Reviews|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=November 3, 2018}}</ref>
So, Wikipedia has purposely written the article to shill for Star Trek Discovery without ever mentioning how terrible it is actually doing. It isn't just an opinion that it is failing, it is failing by real world metrics. As of this date. February 18, 2019, no Season 3 has been greenlit, and my feeling is that they will not be renewed for a Season 3 because of finances and under-performance and general disinterest. The bottom line is that it will be canceled.
Why are there media outlets who are willing to say anything just for a buck? Nobody was allowed to post pictures of Hall H at San Diego ComicCon when the STD panel was on. The reason is likely because the hall was more than half empty! I have a friend who went to the ComicCon, and I specifically asked him to go to that panel to tell me what was coming up. He said the hall was less than half full, and that there was no cheering from the convention goers, just the paid crew who was there with the STD group.
I would be willing to start a pool on the cancellation announcement date, and offer a prize, if anyone is interested.
. All the PR being published these past couple of weeks on CBS's shill sites and Trekmovie and a few others (without reader comment sections, of course), has not improved performance of STD or gotten a surge of interest among Star Trek fans. I tend to believe Doomcock's source, and it would make sense that none of the Kurtzman/Bad Robot related material would continue production if the plan is to kill all of NuTrek and replace it with the real thing.
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