XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: elvisgump@NOhotmailSPAM.com   
      
   in article 1071006182.7382.0@eunomia.uk.clara.net, Graham Kennedy at   
   graham@ditl.org wrote on 12/9/03 3:45 PM:   
      
   > Elvis Gump wrote:   
      
   >> 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."   
      
   That may well be but Trek has probably been a nice steady money maker for   
   Paramount. They'd have to be exceptionally dumb not to have thought of   
   trying to retool everything from the exec producers down to keep the money   
   rolling in. Their imagination might only extend to promoting someone else   
   from past glory of TNG like offering the exec producer slot to Ron Moore or   
   Michael Pillar or other that have gone on to other things.   
      
   I'd be amazed if they weren't at least considering something like that even   
   if they ultimately don't act on it.   
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