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[QUOTE]Originally posted by crobato: [QB] "20 million people would watch TNG. They were mainly intellectual people. Today they watch other series. 4 million people generally watch Voyager. Most of them also watched TNG, and are often dissatisfied that the overall level of quality and intellectuality have declined. The 16 million who don't watch Voyager are also fairly intellectual, but they're not avoiding Voyager because it makes more continuity errors than TNG (it probably doesn't significantly differ). Branding people who care about 35-year-old lines of dialogue more than holistic quality as "intellectual" and rejecting everyone else is an arrogant and stupid assertation. " This is another false assumption. There were also many good shows in those days, and I have to say that a large share of TNG shows can't even be deemed remotely intellectual (TNG ranges from the sublime to the banal). Are you trying to pretend that TNG is something more like the equal of Law and Order? L&O's bit comes from drama and confronting present day social issues. CSI makes a better intellectual show. Excuse me, but Fox placed "Boot Camp" on the same time slot as Voyager and Law and Order for a reason. TNG's failings like in depicting a too perfect utopian world and a starship that no one really connects to. There are many intellectual shows that have existed in this decade, and they have also gone down the tubes. To assume that Enterprise will be another "intellectual" show is quite incredulous given Berman and Braga's recent track record. On the other hand, it should try to focus by producing a more connectable world to a present day audience, maybe it stands a chance. But some of the statements like this: "The next season will bring a bending of the rules, without losing [Trek creator Gene] Roddenberry's vision of a hopeful, uplifting future. The Roddenberry perfection of humanity is in the process of happening, but will be not completed when the series begins."--Braga ... is rather troubling. People are not interested on 1960's utopian ideals. It would be better to connect an audience when you take the 24th century Federation and start breaking it apart into the political and moral morass that is more like the United States today. Roddenberry himself had abandoned visions of uplifting futures, and if anything, both Earth FC and Andromeda had been quite anti-Utopian. Recent SF shows that demonstrated great success have been anti-Utopian---the Outer Limits, Farscape and saving the best for the last---the X-Files. This is where a thematic paradox lies. Even though the 22nd century is closer to the 20th century, an imperfect, conspirational, and darker Federation of the 25th century may actually be a better reflection of the late 20th-21st century United States, by making parallels, whereas a BOTF premise may be more like a 17th-18th century America, and which may turn out to be a Lorne Green Bonanza or a Davy Crocket pioneer show set in outer space---a kind of show that won't connect to audiences these days. We shall see. [This message has been edited by crobato (edited May 21, 2001).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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