OT: Totally P!ssed off at UPN

[Atrocities]

Letter Campaign:

Mr. Leslie Moonves
Co-President, Co-Chief Operating Officer
Viacom International, Inc.
c/o CBS Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036-2112

Ms. Dawn Tarnofsky-Ostroff
President
United Paramount Network
11800 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90025

President Tom Freston
Viacom International
1515 Broadway
New York, NY
10036 U.S.A.

Mr. Brad Grey
Chief Executive
Paramount Studios
5555 Melrose Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90038

Chairman Sumner Redstone
Viacom International, Inc.
1515 Broadway
New York, NY
10036-5794 U.S.A.

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[narf poit chez BOOM]

Maybe, given a few years to think it over, they can come up with something new.

AT, it isn't personal. If the shows not making money, the company goes under. All those people have to eat.

I really hope the're not tearing up all those sets. Foolish decision. Could probably get double or more there value from collectors. I won't comment on the artistic and historical value, because then *I* might get angry.

[Atrocities]

The choice to end the series was blamed on poor ratings but that is turning out to be a load of horse s*** and that is what realy is p***ing me off. They canned the series because, like so many others have posted, it no longer fits into the UPN's budge which is gear for the low end, enexpensive, and cheaply produced sit-com market.

Simply put, UPN is a low rent network and Enterprise was like the most expensive thing they owned, and instead of hocking or selling it, they broke it up into tiny little peaces and dumped it out the 10 story window of their getto.

Shows like Jag and B5 were canned by their first networks but picked up by other networks. UPN and ViaCom / Paramount decided that marketing Enterprise to another network would not work and therefore have not tried to do so. They want Enterprise shut down.

What really hurts is what they are doing to the sets. You should get angry Narf. You have to know that the bean counting yuppies down there could careless about the historical significance of what they have. They will sell it off on Ebay, trash can it, store it until it turns to dust then trash can it, or simply allow whats left to be disposed of by any means possible.

Hell they are going to rename the Gene Roddenburry building too and that is just sad. Just fricking completely destroughtingly sad.

I really should stop reading the Star Trek and other forums. They are just upsetting me.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I think I need to rent some old original series.

[geoschmo]

Goodness AT. So glum. You must be too young to remember the dark ages 20 years ago before TNG hit the air. Having no Trek show on the air is tough, but you'll get through it. And on the bright side, you've got 5 times as much material to work with in reruns, and you've got VCR's and DVD's, which weren't really common back then. Not to mention several other decent Sci-fi shows on the air.

[Starhawk]

Yeah I seriously am feeling the pain, I mean they are not just cancelling the show but are destroying the sets, tearing down history and erasing Gene Rodenberry's legacy, it's just heart wrenching, and I want all those jerks linched.

[geoschmo]

To be honest though there really is no reason to keep the sets. They are mostly wood and paper and paint. Those things aren't exactly built to be durable. They are built to look a certain way on film. Sets get damaged and rebuilt all the time during filming precisely because they are so fragile. Storing them would be difficult and unnecesary. And they would look like crap after a while in storage anyway and wouldn't be usable for anything. They can be recreated from photographic records which can be stored much more easily and permanently. They are doing just that this season in the episode about the Terran Empire. They rebuilt the Constitution class (TOS Enterprise was a constitution class) bridge of the U.S.S Defiant from the TOS. From the photos I've seen it looks great. Just like the original.