Luigi Thirty posted:

The whole Trek franchise is under Paramount Television for historical reasons - it was originally an NBC show produced by Desilu, who was bought by Gulf and Western. Gulf and Western also bought Paramount Pictures so they renamed Desilu to Paramount Television.

Paramount Pictures tried to launch a TV network, using a new Trek show by Paramount Television as its centerpiece (huh, sounds familiar). That fell through and became Paramount Pictures’ TMP, with all the money poured down the drain of the new Trek show by Paramount Television counting against its budget.

A few mergers later, the original Paramount Television is CBS Studios and owns Trek, the current Paramount Television is a completely new entity that owns nothing, and they’re both owned by Paramount Global, which used to be Viacom. Got it?