XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   z wrote:   
      
   > Graham Kennedy  wrote in news:1071004575.6058.0   
   > @eunomia.uk.clara.net:   
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   >>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.   
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   > I"d miss it.  The one thing going for making another series is that the   
   > special effects costs are going down all the time so maybe as time goes by   
   > they won't need to spend so much on production -- and so could afford to   
   > make a less popular show.   
      
   Is that really true though? What does an episode   
   of Enterprise cost compared to Voyager, DS9,   
   TNG?   
      
   My impression is that the budgets stay the same   
   or grow; they just throw more and better FX into   
   the shows. Remember they're in competition with   
   other sci-fi, if they are still using 2003 level   
   FX five years from now they will end up with a   
   show that looks cheap and dated.   
      
   Not that that is fatal; B5 never had Trek's   
   budget and did very nicely indeed without it.   
      
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