XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   Elvis Gump wrote:   
      
   > 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'm not usually into behind the scenes stuff much,   
   but I'd love to know what went on with Voyager.   
   I'd especially like to hear from Beltran now he   
   has nothing to lose.   
      
   >>>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.   
      
   Personally I'd be begging Ron Moore or maybe Robert Wolfe   
   to come and do a series.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Agreed.   
      
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