From what I recall, the reason they called it “Star Trek 2.0” is that when the episodes aired, they had trivia and other information about the episode along the side and bottom of the screen. It was a cool experiment before G4 just decided to become the Cheaters Channel.

I never watched Prodigy, but seeing Paramount fall into the same pattern as HBO Max by summarily removing content will guarantee that I cancel my current subscription and take to the high seas.

With physical media dying off or at least not prioritized, this compounds the situation because for a lot of these shows there’s no hard copy of the media that you can fall back on or keep as a personal archive; it’s all up to the whims of whoever’s in charge at the moment.

It makes the alternative far more practical.