XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   David Johnston wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:45:56 +0000, Graham Kennedy    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>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."   
   >   
   >   
   > Nor are they going to be particularly wrong.  Stories   
   > that would have been quite satisfactory 40 or even ten   
   > years ago are exciting nothing but hostility and ennui   
   > now.  There is a distinct lack of willingness to give   
   > Enterprise the kind of leeway that, say, TNG was   
   > accorded.   
      
   That's not really the way I see it. I was around for   
   TNG the first time it ran, and it was treated with a   
   LOT of hostility by the fans. People endlessley compared   
   it to TOS, and usually found it wanting.   
      
   It wasn't until Season 3 began to take off that this   
   changed; Best of Both Worlds was the point at which it   
   really shook off the TOS legacy.   
      
   Enterprise just isn't doing that, because it isn't   
   living up to it's own premise. It's like the people   
   who are making it don't care about it, so why should we?   
      
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