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   From: fluidstates_NO+SPAM@REMOVE-ME.verizon.IHATESPAM.SPAM_VAC.com   
      
   "Anybody"  wrote in message   
   news:160520060859526256%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com...   
   > In article , "reddog_x2000"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Re:   
   >>   
   >> > ALL the problems with Enterprise were due the two moronic fools in   
   >> > charge of it having no idea what they're doing. It had nothing to do   
   >> > with it being a prequel.   
   >>   
   >> I agree, for the most part.  B & B had to have known that the franchise   
   >> needed a rest after Voyager.  If they'd really been on the ball, they'd   
   >> have   
   >> cancelled that series early and come back with Enterprise about now.   
   >   
   > Beavis & Butthead simply have absolutely no idea about Star Trek at   
   > all. The ultimate proof (completely unneed by then anyway) was the   
   > insane idea of trying to make Enterprise a "non-Trek Star Trek show".   
      
   As I have pointed out Berman said in his own words - quotable - that at the   
   time of taking over Star Trek's helm he knew nothing of Star Trek.  Morality   
   play in entertainment meant nothing to him, the humanistic story basis of   
   Trek was both meaningless and outside his personal experience.  He saw Star   
   Trek as entertainment - pure, simple and nothing more - and therefore felt   
   no constraints as long as Star Trek was, in his words, "entertaining".  He   
   had *no*, and I firmly emphasize NO, science fiction interest NOR did he   
   even consider himself a fan of science fiction in any form...//except// time   
   travel stories.   
      
   His personal favorites.   
      
   The interview is either in (a) The New York Times, at the time of   
   Roddenberry's death or (b) The Star Trek Communicator, shortly after   
   Roddenberry's death.  I have both - the NY Times issue covering the death,   
   and the Communicator with Berman's interview - but both are packed away in a   
   storage facility currently.   
      
   However...if you wish me to reprint verbatim Berman's own words regarding   
   science fiction entertainment I will be willing to unbury the data and post   
   it here.   
      
   I have remembered that interview - almost, now, 15 years later - because at   
   the time I was working with another Star Trek fan.  When I read the   
   interview I came in the next day and said to her "Star Trek is doomed.  It   
   is in the hands of someone who doesn't understand it".   
      
   It might have taken 13 or so years for the prophecy to come true but...   
      
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