It was touch-and-go for a bit there, with Paramount+ (initially “CBS All Access”) feeling a bit like a desperate afterthought in the streaming wars—a dumping ground for ViacomCBS’s vast library of shows. It’s still relatively early days for the streamer, but on the strength of Christine Baranski and Sonequa Martin-Green (a winning combo if ever there was one), Paramount’s begun to build itself into a small powerhouse.
Star Trek, in particular, is celebrating its 55th anniversary this week. After a fallow period, particularly on TV, that franchise’s future has perhaps never looked brighter. Its original programs haven’t all been triumphs, and some of their biggest successes are carryovers from other networks in the CBS family, but they’ve managed a few buzzy projects and some high-end prestige programming that have built Paramount+ into something that people are actually paying for.
