XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
XPost: alt.fan.tom-servo
From: sculkhan@excite.com
Excellent Bozo!!! I personally think Ent should get the same number of years
as DS9 and Voyager.
"Bozo the Evil Klown" wrote in message
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>> Enterprise Looks To Future
>>
>> Manny Coto, the executive producer of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise,
> told the
>> Chicago Tribune that he wants to explore the founding of the
> Federation if
>> the ratings-challenged series makes it to a fifth season next year.
>
> Too bad Berman and Braga never thought of doing that during the first
> three years.
>
>> That's
>> a big "if," Coto told the newspaper: "I haven't spoken to anyone
> [about]
>> the [ratings] performance, so I'd be talking in the dark. I don't
> know if
>> they're happy or not. It's still pretty much up in the air [whether
> there
>> will be a season five]."
>
> As much $$$ as Paramutual has made (and still stands to rake in from
> the franchise) it seems a little strange that they're not doing
> *something* to advertise that Trek is now Under New Management, to
> entice the millions and millions of fans who've bailed to come back and
> look at the new More Interesting/ Less Suckage "Enterprise."
>
>> Enterprise's fate won't be announced until May, the newspaper
> reported. But
>> UPN head Dawn Ostroff told the newspaper: "We've gotten great
> feedback from
>> fans. The show is at a great place [creatively], and we're very happy
> with
>> the ideas and execution."
>
> Meaning nothing. She likes her job way too much to badmouth *anything*
> on the Underpaid Negroes Network.
>
>> Enterprise reportedly has fewer viewers in its new Friday 8 p.m.
> timeslot,
>> but UPN is earning higher ratings on that night than it did before
>> Enterprise moved.
>
> And another factor is how likely are they to be able to replace ENT
> with a show that does even that good in the ratings?
>
>> As for the show's creative direction this season, which
>> has included a guest stint by Brent Spiner, Coto said: "We
> consciously set
>> out to make this season a real prequel, to really embrace the prequel
>> concept. We've got ... great stories coming up, and I think there's a
> whole
>> season's worth of great stuff, the founding of the Federation."
>
> Or even the federalization of the Foundation.
>
>> Coto added: "That's not something that can happen in three episodes
> at the
>> end of the season, but we'll be headed toward the founding of the
>> Federation [toward the end of season four]. I would love to make that
> a
>> season-long arc.
>
> It would likely take somewhat more than a year.
>
>> What's great about it is that it's a positive arc, instead
>> of a story of pure conflict [like the Xindi arc]. It becomes an arc
> about
>> trying to bring different cultures together, ....
>
> "I have a dream... a dream where Trek fans and B5 fans can come
> together and hold hands singing 'Heading Out to Eden'..."
>
>> which is a really
>> resonant idea for our time. I would love to come back, and we would
> do some
>> serious research on the founding of the U.N., how that came
> together."
>
> Instead of the U.N., maybe the Federation should be based on something
> that *works*.
>
> *****
> The Joker in the Eeeeeeevil Cabal Deck of Cards.
>
> By Grabthar's Hammer, by Pollock's Putty Knife, by the sparkling,
> refreshing Screwdriver of Smirnoff- YOU SHALL BE QUOTED!!!!!!
>
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