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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Savar: [QB] Ah, but Star Trek was HIS show and these were HIS characters. Roddenberry was involved with the creative process and it was HIS vision, something I firmly believe is lacking in Trek these days. It was Roddenberry who "caught lightning in a bottle." He wasn't the whole show, of course. He brought on board talented writers and directors and let them re-create his universe. And it worked. My concern has always been that custodianship of the Star Trek "franchise" (I prefer the term "legacy"), is better left with someone other than Berman/Braga. When Roddenberry began the TNG project, he surrounded himself with those people who knew what Star Trek was all about. People like Bob Justman, Eddie Milkis, David Gerrold, Dorothy Fontana, and Bill Theiss. Through an unlucky turn of fate, Milkis chose to "get back to his other commitments", and Berman took over as supervising producer. Had it not been for ailing health, Gene Roddenberry would have certainly retained a degree of input and control over his creation. It seemed to me that almost as soon as he was gone, Berman set out to retool Star Trek into HIS vision. Deep Space Nine was dark and brooding and war-obsessed. TNG had to be cancelled so it wouldn't compete with Bermans "baby." The space station concept didn't get the ratings so they trotted out Defiant and the endless series of wars/conflicts. Even that was not enough to bring them a viewership close to TNG so "Look! It's your old pal Worf from the last series here to save the ratings!" So now DS9 is spiralling down the commode like last night's liver and onions so they decide to go into Star Trek overdose and bring out Voyager. "Look, it's a starship, OK? You like starships, right?" And what follows is seven more years of Berman Trek, uninspiring space opera the folks at ITV perfected thirty years ago. More war, more enemies, with more than occasional trips to the holodeck to engage in a romantic affair with a computer generated image. At least when Kirk played the game, he could bag a living, breathing date. So Voyager is wrapping up and hot on its heels is yet another "spinoff", undoubtedly spun even farther from Roddenberry's vision than the last two pseudo-treks. Like I stated when I began this thread, I'm not hopeful. In my humble opinion, there is just TOO much Trek out there these days. Berman and his cronies are so worried about keeping their jobs, they will continue to manufacture Star Trek spinoffs until the inevitable hammer comes down for the first time since 1969: cancellation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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