XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: jmcginnNOSPAM@radicalREALLYNOSPAM.ca   
      
   On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:24:39 GMT, block@telusplanet.net (David   
   Johnston) wrote:   
      
   >now.  There is a distinct lack of willingness to give   
   >Enterprise the kind of leeway that, say, TNG was   
   >accorded.   
      
   To put this another way, people have a lot more entertainment choices   
   now than when TNG was on. Maybe some of you are too young to remember   
   the early nineties  but it was much more limited. The Internet was   
   barely registering, video games were primitive, your home   
   entertainment was basically 30 channels and rented videos.   
      
   So it's probably not realistic to expect any TV show to gain that kind   
   of foothold in the popular imagination. Even smash hits like CSI are   
   based on specific, niche audiences. In the 90s if there was a hit   
   (Simpsons, Seinfeld, X-Files) then *everyone* watched it.   
      
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