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   Eric Newman to anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
   Re: [NEWS] - Moonves: A Break Good For T   
   20 Jan 05 07:07:00   
   
   XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: bogusname@nj.rr.com   
      
   On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:06:34 +1300, Anybody   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <10uuhs3gufhrg6d@corp.supernews.com>, Brian Brady   
   > 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.  :-(   
   >>   
   >> Not forever, but I think they should give up on series television for at   
   >> least 10 years and concentrate on the movies every two years.   
   >>   
   >> Then around 2015 take a fresh look at it.   
   >   
   >Well ... according to some calendars the world is supposedly due to end   
   >in 2012, so that means Trek will be gone forever.  ;-)   
      
   Do you know what day?   
      
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