OT: Totally P!ssed off at UPN

[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.

[Renegade 13]

And for the intermission between hours, we're pleased to feature Renegade 13 chasing said mouse around with a very pointy pitchfork!