Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I don’t have an opinion on STAR TREK: PRODIGY, on its merits. I personally feel that I can’t have one, because I’ve never seen it*. This means that I absolutely have zero interest in wading through arguments for or against whether it should have been canceled, the reasons for its cancellation, and/or what its cancellation says about us as a country/culture/collection of sapient life forms/whatever. That’s not what I want to talk about.
What I do want to talk about is how this entire affair is an excellent reminder that you must never buy any entertainment that’s digital-only unless you fundamentally don’t care if it disappears after you’ve finished consuming it. When you buy digital-only, you’re only buying access; if you want the thing itself, you need to get it in physical, air-gapped, write-only form. Everything else is simply renting, and the thing you’re renting is only available at the whim of the rental agency.
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