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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] I say people should look at the fact that Paramount devoted $80 million or so to the movie with the full knowlege that a Trek movie will never bring the Batman & Robin crowd to the box office to recoup that investment like, erm, [i]Batman & Robin[/i] could. That strongly implies to me anyway that they're confident that this project will appeal to the hordes of reasonable and friendly and pleasant-smelling non-fanboys who watched TNG and went to [i]First Contact[/i]. Then again, Hollywood suits make mistakes, too. But generally speaking, it's well understood that the sci-fi hardcore fanboy geek demographic isn't lucrative enough to spend dozens of millions of dollars at luring. That's the reason [i]Starship Troopers[/i] was turned into a satire rather than a straight regurgitation of Heinlein. It's also the reason [i]Enterprise[/i] isn't a series about a modified Galaxxy-callss drednaught blwoing pu the Jemhaddar in teh Gamma Quadrant wiht 19-episode arcs devotid to explaning how Trill look different. It's also the reason, among others, that JMS is a cold and bitter man. Anyway understanding the business side of Hollywood has never come too easily to the fanboy-sympathetic media. TrekWeb would probably have you believe that Enterprise's lower ratings than TNG stem from people abandoning the show en masse when they saw a D7-class Klingon battlecruiser 120 years too early. (And they'd then proceed to plug [i]The Dead Zone[/i] at every opportunity while the USA Network lined their pockets with banner ad payments. But that's another matter.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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