XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: elvisgump@NOhotmailSPAM.com   
      
   in article 0L6Cb.693$Mw4.233@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com, Numan at   
   tbrdmann@sbcglobal.net wrote on 12/11/03 5:05 PM:   
      
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   > "Elvis Gump"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> I didn't think of Frakes because he's already got a bit of a directing   
   career   
   >> away from Trek. Burton might make a good choice.   
   >>   
   >> I wouldn't mind them bringing back TNG weekly with Riker or LaForge as   
   >> Captain with a new crew and the occasional guest shot with say Picard as an   
   >> Admiral along with the rest of the old crew occasionally. Had they gone that   
   >> route instead of movies the way some series like "Law and Order" or "ER"   
   have   
   >> with their ensemble casts rotate out they might have had a better shot at   
   >> longevity.   
   >>   
   >> Hey, at this point I say bring Wil Wheaton back!   
   >>   
   >> Can you say Cap'n Crusher?   
   >   
   > I can honestly say I never even thought of a show with Geordi   
   > as the captain but I like that idea. He is the youngest of the group   
   > anyway isn't he? Would that be on the Enterprise or would you give   
   > him his own ship?   
      
   Am I crazy or wasn't he in a guest shot on VOY as the captain of USS   
   Challenger, a Galaxy class ship in a alternate future episode? I'm still   
   waiting for VOY to come to some sort of syndication near me so I can see the   
   bulk of that series.   
      
   > I still want to see the Titan and Will as the captain, even if in small   
   > doses.   
   >   
   > Would we accept him as captain with a whole new crew?   
   >   
   > Hmmm.   
      
   Well we keep being fed new crews all the time with DS9, VOY or ENT. I think   
   they would have done better with a little more continuity. If they brought   
   E-E back from the movies to TV with someone like Geordi as Captain, maybe   
   Wheaton and a new cast and rotated old TNG cast members through occasionally   
   they'd have a better shot in the ratings. Stewart could come by occasionally   
   as Admiral Picard, they could meet up with Riker's Titan on occasion too.   
      
   It's always a bit of rolling the dice though. The wider audience probably   
   feels burned by the later lackluster TNG movie outings or VOY or ENT so all   
   Paramount can count on is the core audience to come back.   
      
   They may have some sort of magic formula of accounting that tells them it's   
   not worth the financial gamble.   
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