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Re: Not the right way to exit?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:56:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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I’m not sure how any of that relates to ST:E only (most likely) lasting four
seasons.
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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 IPs are creating the successful spin-offs. Paramount just seemed to have
stopped trying to make cutting edge sci-fi in favor of going after easy profit.
Maybe they’ll come up with something worth watching down the road, but I think
the biggest mistake they keep making is farming out their script-writing to any
monkey with a typewriter. Didn’t Freddie Prinz Jr. write an episode of
Enterprise? I’m sorry, the order of those sentances seems to imply things that
I did not intend. My apologies to monkeys everywhere.
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(Paramount cut their per episode charges by something like half just so it
would get picked up for a forth season).
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Huh? I thought UPN was their puppet network. Or are they still doing that
thing where their network is syndicated to independant stations, and those
stations get to choose when they want to buy the shows and when they don’t?
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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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Most series are 22 eps per season, so it should take two weeks and a day at that
rate.
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Cat-suited alien space babe with technically enhanced boobage?
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Mostly, yeah. 69 was arguably not an alien, by virtue of her pre-borgage human
birth.
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Can’t say that I care much for the time-tripping pre-destination stuff.
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I’m not sure I got that far. I think the last episode I watched in straight
succession was the one where Archer goes to the future with the future
time-jumper-dude only to find that everything has been destroyed and they can’t
send him back home.
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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).
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Spock’s Brain?
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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