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   From: Slitheen23@dropallthisgooglemail.com   
      
   Mac Breck wrote:   
   > Tim Bruening wrote:   
   >> Dragon Lady wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Obveeus"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:hbpjjh$kqo$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >>>> "Dragon Lady"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> "Obveeus"  wrote:   
   >>>>>> Certainly, 'the masses' saw Star Trek TOS as a piece of hoakie   
   >>>>>> garbage and rejected it when it first aired, even moreso than   
   >>>>>> Enterprise when it first aired.   
   >>>>> Careful, your ignorance is showing.   
   >>>> Star Trek was a ratings failure, so yes, it was soundly rejected by   
   >>>> 'the masses' when it first aired.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Actually, Star Trek was popular enough to get reinstated for a third   
   >>> season because they got so many complaints when it was cancelled.   
   >>> However, TPTB were determined to cancel it, so they scheduled it for   
   >>> a time when most of the audience could not be up to watch it.   
   >> So why didn't the fans then write letters demanding a better time   
   >> slot for Star Trek?   
   >   
   > Maybe they did, but TPTB at NBC were determined to cancel it.  Maybe the   
   > fans figured why bother, after seeing crappy Season 3.   
   >   
      
   Even season 3 had a good few excellent episodes. It was just the ones   
   with a heavy focus on Kirk and the love interest of the week that killed   
   it as a season. Oh, and *that* episode I won't even mention for fear the   
   wind changes direction and I'll be stuck thinking about it forever.   
      
   --   
   Legend-11.   
   "Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence" - Leonard   
   'Bones' McCoy, Star Trek (2009).   
      
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