XPost: alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   XPost: alt.fan.tom-servo   
   From: deering1@mindspring.com   
      
   Travers Naran wrote:   
   >   
   > Paul Vader wrote:   
      
   > > - Stories: Enterprise has, by my count, managed to twitch my sensawunda   
   > >           meter maybe TWICE. I can't think of another SF show (excepting   
   > >           voyager) that has a worse batting average. There are thousands   
   > >           of great writers out there (but no, I'm not talking to the fanfic   
   > >           community) - hire some to work out a decent long-term format and   
   > >           storyline, and invent some characters not made of cardboard.   
   >   
   > Which would require replacing Braga.  Again, they are the gatekeepers   
   > that quality has to pass through.  Braga doesn't seem to understand what   
   > makes an SF show work, and he seems to almost hold in contempt those who   
   > do.  He doesn't even know what makes a good story period.  How does   
   > someone so clueless end up weilding so much power?   
      
   What I'd like to know is why has Paramount been asleep at the   
   freakin' wheel on this? It should _not_ have taken until ST:   
   NEMESIS for them to get a clue this franchise was in   
   trouble--cracks were starting to show when ST: GENERATIONS was   
   on, and ST: VOYAGER was a virtual abyss. But, then, Disney pulls   
   the same mess--they make so much off merchandising that it takes   
   the industry equivalent of Pompeii for them to try a different   
   direction.   
      
      
   C.   
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