strangely if you search star trek prodigy on paramount plus (in my case as an addon to my primevideo subscription) - episodes s1e03 and 04 are available and play fine. The rest are marked unavailable as expected.
I'm guessing its a mistake, but would be cool if this were an indication of something happening
Avast! When there be no way to pay gold doubloons for a thing, I sit patiently in me boat and save me doubloons for a chance to legally purchase a collectors edition later.
I've heard tales of lost shows found on the high seas, but I take no part in that, myself. O'course, I'd never judge a soul who did.
But perhaps all good sailors do as I do. Perhaps they he equally unwilling to sail the friendly high seas on a VPN in search of lost treasure.
Surely Paramount will make good profits on this twisted venture. Yarrr.
If ye agree with me that this might be, I've a bridge I been meaning to sell to an investor as thoughtful at Paramount...
Technically yes they do own Star Trek, but the way the accounting works is they sell the broadcast/streaming rights back to themselves. It's a bit convoluted, but taking the rights away from their own service means CBS as a studio can either resell it to another broadcaster/streamer or failing that write it off for tax purposes.