You know that eventually enough clips will leak out that we can judge whether the show is any good, without paying up front. And if it's any good, eventually the show will be licensed to Netflix or Amazon or Hulu or iTunes. Especially if enough people indicate they'd watch the show if it weren't being held ransom to launch a pay service.

I think I'm open to being impressed by a new Star Trek, but this one is handicapped from the beginning by the strings attached. Then there are the reports of production snafus, suggesting the result may be some kind of Frankenstein.

So I'm gonna just stand on the sidelines here, and watch the situation play out.