XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   Elvis Gump wrote:   
      
   > in article 1071004575.6058.0@eunomia.uk.clara.net, Graham Kennedy at   
   > graham@ditl.org wrote on 12/9/03 3:19 PM:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Stan Jensen wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>from DarkHorizons.com   
   >>>   
   >>>The talk of ratings and critical disappointment has been pervasive for   
   >>>some time now on the latest Trek spin-off. Despite its relaunch this   
   >>>year with a new storyline and purpose which has yielded a better   
   >>>quality show, ratings sadly haven't reflected it - whilst holding   
   >>>steady this year they're still far from ideal.   
   >>>   
   >>>Then the other day this scoop came in, whilst the news is reasonable   
   >>>sounding I held off on it to see if I could find out anything   
   >>>corroborating or would deny its content. So far nothing either way but   
   >>>I'd thought I'd share it before it pops up somewhere else as 'fact'   
   >>>when its simply rumour for now:   
   >>>   
   >>>"On the Paramount lot this week, a memo was circulated to the   
   >>>production staff advising them that the current season would be reduced   
   >>>to 24 shows from 26.  This marks the first time in nearly 20 years that   
   >>>this has occurred for a Trek show; all non-first seasons of all the   
   >>>existing and previous series have always consisted of 26 shows (except   
   >>>TNG: Season 2 due to a writers strike).   
   >>>   
   >>>Lot talk behind the memo is that next year will be the last season of   
   >>>"Enterprise".  A fourth and final season of 24 shows, which with the   
   >>>first two seasons total episode count of 52, would fulfill the magic   
   >>>syndication requirement of 100 total episodes.  No word on the future   
   >>>of the Franchise".   
   >>   
   >>Hmmmmmm.   
   >>   
   >>I wouldn't be especially sad to see Enterprise go. I would   
   >>be sad that they probably wouldn't want to make another   
   >>series if this one flops. Not for quite a long while anyway.   
   >   
   >   
   > Maybe it might pave the way for someone like Harv Bennett, Shatner, Nimoy or   
   > Nicolas Meyer to come in take the helm. B&B have got to see the writing on   
   > the wall that their reign could be near and end and already be looking for   
   > something to land their golden parachutes on when this series goes belly up   
   > anyway.   
   >   
   > I think the Trek franchise will go into cold storage though myself. Maybe   
   > another movie in a few years, but where else can they go with a TV series?   
      
   Thing is, you're average TV executive doesn't think in terms   
   of "it failed, so we must try again with better writers and   
   producers."   
      
   It's very likely that they will read the message as "it failed,   
   so the public must be fed up with Star Trek."   
      
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