XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: elvisgump@NOhotmailSPAM.com   
      
   in article 1071008327.8867.1@eunomia.uk.clara.net, Graham Kennedy at   
   graham@ditl.org wrote on 12/9/03 4:21 PM:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Maybe they'll just settle for the syndication and DVD sales money. Who   
   knows? One day a tell-all book should be interesting on this whole 2nd era   
   of the behind the scenes stories of 20-something years of movies and tv   
   series.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Considering how old Shatner and Nimoy are I don't think the studio would   
   gamble much on their prolonged involvement. Even Harv Bennett is on up   
   there. Maybe Meyer or someone from the TNG on era could do it. Or they could   
   bring in some other unknown but supposedly hot shot like Berman was low   
   those many years ago.   
      
   From all the behind the scenes stuff I've read of Trek's long production   
   history a lot of it seems to have been done on a whim at times so one never   
   can guess what the guys in the front office might do. IT seems like another   
   season of Enterprise is assured just for the syndication deal but after that   
   it's probably anyone's guess.   
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