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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phelps: [QB] For one, I've read about 80% of JMS's posts online, and I also know quite well how Ron D. Moore thinks, also, since he's a fan and has posted online as well. Since "fanboy" usually refers to stupid beginners who religiously swallow anything handed to them, I can't exactly see what you mean. These guys are rather gods of good TV storytelling, gods of those who think all TV should be as well written as The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Babylon 5, the Twillight Zone, the original Star Trek etc, etc. The genre doesn't matter. JMS would not have gone with the name "Enterprise" as a publicity gimmick because he's not a sellout. That's why Babylon 5 is almost dead in bookstores and videostores, and long gone from regular TV. For him, a story has to be good drama, and good storytelling. That means not confusing viewers even a little, unless that confusion will eventually be explained in the story. If he thought the name "Enterprise" is essential to the story, then the ship would've been similar or identical to the circular TMP ship. No problem with the weird shape -- if there's one thing JMS repeats constantly, and has proven through his B5 incarnations as well as his desire to write in a whole bunch of media, than that's a need for experimentation. Just look at the various shapes of B5 ships. Most probably, however, he wouldn't have made this particular show. Ron D. Moore, on the other hand, is a fan. There is a long fandom tradition of five starships named Enterprise, and he probably hates this insertion of something that's identical to a Federation starship in everything but name, something that's so important and should've been mentioned or shown somewhere. He would've gone a similar route as JMS, using the circular ship or something of that nature also. After all, DS9 was about experimentation as well. I don't know about Ira Stephen Behr, but he made DS9, so he's used to being the "forgotten child", rather than a franchise keeper. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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