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Old February 5th, 2005, 12:06 PM
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Default Re: OT: Totally P!ssed off at UPN

The general and prevailing mindset of hollywood is that if it doesn't make money and get new fans, then cancel it, burn the sets, and sacrifice the producers to the critics.

Actually, the show can be revived - but by a different studio if paramount can sell the rights. This happened with Stargate when Showtime tried to cancel it. Sadly, Star-Trek licensing is insanely high. The only reason why we had Season 4 is because paramount had to drop the fees to CBS & UPN so low, it was embarassing. The only way it would sell is if the frandchise totally flopped or if the next Big science fiction film makes a huge fortune. Afterall, we wouldn't have more than the Original Star Trek if it wasn't for Star Wars.

Now if anyone has hopes for reviving it, they need to secure the sets & props or atleast the designs for all of that so it can be reconstructed at a later date.
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Old February 5th, 2005, 07:18 PM
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i'm sorry to hear enterprise was cancelled, i like it, over here i'm watching the season when the Xindi are building a weapon to destroy earth i don't know if it's the last season or not, and one question what the hell is UPN?
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UPN= Unwhite People Network, just about every show you can hear someone going on about "Tha white man" and "Cracker, honky" so on and so forth.
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Actually Showtime did not own the rights to Stargate, they bought the show. MGM owned, and still does, the rights to Stargate.

If Enterprise can find a new home on another network they ya it can be revived, but the chances of that happening are slim to non-exsistant.

As for Star Wars being why we have had more trek, well that is just a myth. Series II was already in production when Star Wars came out. After Star Wars Paramount decided to for go the new series in favor of a motion picture. Hense the title Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The sets had already been built and the scripts written for Series II by the time Star Wars hit the screens.
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They should have made Enterprise as a syndicated series rather than a network one. It would have gotten more favourable time slots and a better overall audience...
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They should have stopped frankenstiening the continueity.
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They should have made Enterprise as a syndicated series rather than a network one. It would have gotten more favourable time slots and a better overall audience...
The question is why don't they do that now?
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Probably because they feel they don't need to go the syndication route anymore since they have thier own network.
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Well, we could all go marching down to UPN headquarters and demand they re-instate the show... And then to show our convictions we can fire a few shots across their bow...er...in front of their CEO's window

Or we could be less fanatical, and just accept that which we can not change.
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God I am so fricking depressed over this. Just when the series was actually beginning to get interesting they go and cancel it. WTF? I mean W T F? are they doing this for?

The order to strike the sets in stage 8 and 9 was given and nearly 27 years of history is being broken into small peaces bound for the LA dump.

When the revolution comes, my small list of must kills, just grew to include the names of those responsible for this blood vengeance-causing act.

There is some microscopic talk, mostly pathetic fan based rumors that there might be a movie based off of Enterprise dealing with the Romulan Conflict, but that is as likely to happen as my flying to the moon on a tooth pick.

It really just pains me to no end to think that we are witnessing the end of an era. Nearly 20 years of none stop star trek is coming to a close and I find myself weeping like an old women at the thought that I may never again see a new episode featuring the bridges of star trek ships. I am not ashamed to admit this and I know that I am not alone in my heartsick pain.

No good will come of this, and that you can bank on. I sincerely hope that UPN goes belly up and that I at least live long enough to see it happen so I can gloat with the rest of the disenfranchised Star Trek fans.

I hope that the executives over at Paramount that made the call to can Enterprise suffer a horrible and painful death after living years in poverty and shame. They have no honor and they are worse than a Breen back stabber! They are lower than Targ s*** and I would not give them the gnawed on dog bones of my meal if they were starving to death and begging me.

They are Cardassian Vole fodder in my book and deserve to be spaced over a black hole!

Think about all those props, sets, costumes, etc just going to be tossed, auctioned off on EBay, or stored away until they are either turn to dust or are s*** canned by some lowly underling clueless dumb f*** like the SOB who through away the CD with all of the original B5 models on it over at Warner bros.

I tell you if I had Bill Gates $$ I would find a way to keep that show on the air if I had to pay the 1.5 million it cost per episode to do so. I mean where have we gone that brought us here? One of the few shows on TV that sci-fi fans enjoyed watching and its cut off at the knees at four years old.

Like I said, it should be classified as a crime and those responsible brought to justice. They should be hanged from a nearest light post with a sign around their punk arses that read "I Cancelled Star Trek." They should serve as a warning to the next ten generations of Paramount executives that we the fans will not tolerate such things!

God help me I don't know what I am going to do without my weekly fix of Enterprise. Hell I have been getting a weekly fix of Star Trek since I was 17 years old, well long before that with TOS but that does not count as it was cancelled before I was born. Since October of 87, say the year or so after voyager ended to the start of Enterprise, I have awaited with much anticipation my weekly fix of Star Trek.

Granted I would have loved to seen Voyager cancelled, but I was often told that any Star Trek is better than no Star Trek. And you know what, they were right.

We are at the predispose of a new dark age my friends. One that bares no kindness in its empty stare back at us. Its cold breath chills me to my core and sends my soul cowering in fear. What a dark day as befallen us.

I HATE YOU UPN!
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