XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: block@telusplanet.net   
      
   On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:42:34 +0000, Graham Kennedy    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   But they still _watched_ it.  They aren't doing that any more.   
      
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