XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com
In article <6UAHd.13232$5R.1251@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, T
wrote:
> Anybody wrote:
> > In article , Stan Jensen
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Moonves: A Break Good For Trek?
> >>
> >>Leslie Moonves - co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom, the
> >>parent company of CBS, UPN and Paramount - told SCI FI Wire that it may be
> >>time for Star Trek to take a break, though he added that no decision has
> >>been made on the future of UPN's ratings-challenged Star Trek: Enterprise.
> >>Speaking in an interview at the CBS/UPN winter press tour in West
> >>Hollywood, Calif., Moonves said: "It's hard to say right now. The ratings
> >>aren't great. It may be a franchise that should be rested a year or two. I
> >>know the diehards are not in favor of that, but I think if we rested a year
> >>or two, it might be a better thing. But we'll see what happens the rest of
> >>the year."
> >
> > I think it's time Star Trek was put out to pasture for EVER. Everything
> > must end, and it would have been much better for Star Trek to have
> > ended years ago while it was "on top" before being dragged further and
> > further down the toilet by the insane inabilities of the non-dynamic
> > duo of Beavis & Butthead. :-(
>
> I disagree. I take that to be a defeatist attitude. Star Trek is not a
> player of sports, that needs to go out 'on top'.
>
> It's a field, wide & deep. It can be fertile or lay fallow but hinging
> it's future on your opinion mean less Trek for me and I find that
> unacceptable.
EVERYTHING has to end at some time, and it's best to end while people
still enjoy it ("always leave 'em wanting more") rather than leaving a
sour taste in the fans' mouths ("you always remember the bad times").
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