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Yes with inflation.
But sure, you might be able to find a list that places it in second place instead, depending on their method. That hardly defeats my point. Are you really trying to argue that Into Darkness performed badly?
Nothing else you said is relevant if we're judging Trek installments based on viewership, which is the metric you chose.
Ah yes, the true worth of a piece art lies in how many action figures it sells. Silly silly me.
Then why care so much? Obviously I’d like Trek to maintain a sufficient audience to keep getting produced, but beyond that I really don’t care. I want it to be good, not popular. I’ve loved plenty of shows that stayed pretty niche.
So to actually speak to quality: Kurtzman Trek has absolutely been a mixed bag, but I appreciate that he tries a lot of different approaches to the franchise and seems to be pretty hands off on most of them. It means we occasionally get some dreck like Section 31, but also some great stuff like SNW and, so far at least, Academy.
Because I love the intelligent Trek that came before Kurtzman. The existence of Kurtzman Trek precludes better Trek from being produced. Millions of fans are being deprived to enrich this no talent asshat.