XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   Elvis Gump wrote:   
      
   > 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 wonder to what extent they might just decide that most   
   of that money will keep rolling in anyway; are people   
   going to stop buying Voyager on DVD because Enterprise   
   isn't on?   
      
   > I'd be amazed if they weren't at least considering something like that even   
   > if they ultimately don't act on it.   
      
   I hope so. No more B&B, some new fresh ideas for a   
   new series... pardon the pun, but it sounds like   
   the best of both worlds.   
      
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