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Re: Not the right way to exit?
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:40:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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You better hurry and make up your mind about ST:E since this is undoubtedly
the last season
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Really? That’s kinda funny, given the external circumstances. Stargate
recently started franchising, there are rumors that another B5 spinoff is in
the works, and after the whole debate of whether ST or B5 was superior or
which show stole ideas from which, I heard JMS turned them down cold when
they asked him to save their latest baby. Star Trek peaked in popularity
during DS9 (the last series to bear Roddenberry’s fingerprint), and they
never quite got the magic back. The only reason why I’ve even watched the
bulk of ST:V is because a local station was running it in reruns every
weekday at 7pm, and it’s easier to maintain interest in a show when the
entire 7-year run can be compressed down into just over 7 months. After all,
it only takes about two months to get past the Kazon. ;P
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I’m not sure how any of that relates to ST:E only (most likely) lasting four
seasons (Paramount cut their per episode charges by something like half just so
it would get picked up for a forth season). However, yes, I like being able to
watch a series that is compacted down to a few months. I got into X-Files just
past half-way through it’s original run, and was forever confused on the Grand
Alien Conspiracy issues until TNT stripped it in with two episodes back to back
every weeknight. It would take maybe three weeks per season.
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the only reason they are limping through it is to get to the magical 100
episodes for marketing the re-runs.
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The Sci-Fi channel has picked up a lot of short-run shows (some of them only
consisting of one season), but they can’t be paying much for them either.
And ST:TOS can sell a 79-ep catalog by virtue of the fact that it has such a
vocally religious fanbase, but even the hard-core trekkies have been booing
Enterprise. If they do hit 100 eps, that’ll be about their only major selling
point.
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Cat-suited alien space babe with technically enhanced boobage?
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I kinda do hope they make it into syndication. I wouldn’t mind
breezing through everything in half a year just to see what I missed the
first time around. The general lameness of the show was only half of the
reason I stopped watching, but the severe reception problems I experienced
because the local UPN station consists of a bunch of dinky little
ex-weather-stations that often come in no better than stations that are 10x
as far away pretty much killed any desire to hang on in hopes of better days.
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Can’t say that I care much for the time-tripping pre-destination stuff. I’ve
always felt it was a dangerous area to go into - the only way to guard against
some time-tripping starship destroying your incipient civilization is by
writer’s contrivances. Really obvious ones, too. I’ve kinda ignored the
inconsistencies with the rest of Trek, if only because I found Deep Six Trek and
ST: Lost in Space tedious and gave up on them quickly. Dunno why I have stuck
with ST:E - maybe because it was at least in the original vein of moving
pro-actively about the universe rather than tehtered to a space station or just
blundering around destined to never get home until the ratings couldn’t sustain
you any longer. I usually lose interest in TV shows after a while - for the
original Star Trek I even passed on signing a second petition to keep it on the
air (they slashed the budget (like ST:E) and the writing got really bad even for
me at that age).
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) Oh, it's the whole thing with how networks were convinced for so long that the only way a sci-fi show could survive is if it has the Star Trek name attached to it, but then here we are where the name has become something of a pariah, and other (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Really? That's kinda funny, given the external circumstances. Stargate recently started franchising, there are rumors that another B5 spinoff is in the works, and after the whole debate of whether ST or B5 was superior or which show stole (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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