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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Brown_supahero: They still can salvage this series by:[/QUOTE]They can? Possibly, if the Trekkies of the world united to create a New Revolution for the Franchise... :rolleyes: [QUOTE]Short Term: Hire the writing staff from "Firefly" or[/QUOTE]Never gonna happen. From what I heard, they tried to hire J. Michael Straczynski a few years back; he turned the job down without thinking twice. Star Trek is regarded as a creative dead-end for most of the REAL writers in Hollywood -- mainly because it's viewed as far too restrictive in terms of creativity: just about everything that could be done, has been done, and because the production staff and crew are in a massive rut, and they can't (or won't) try any other way. [QUOTE]Hire the junior wrtiters from "Andromeda" or[/QUOTE]God, I hope not! Andromeda sucks even worse than Enterprise! There were a few intelligent people, but they all got canned in the Great Sorbo Takeover. And most of those good writers are former Trek veterans anyway, and specifically LEFT the franchise for greener pastures. [QUOTE]Long Term: They can't run this for seven or more years. They need to end it with in two years, with probably the Romulan War. Honestly i'll appreciate the pre-E getting rocked.[/QUOTE]"Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!" -- Yogurt Star Trek is nothing more than a huge cash cow now, and the suits up at the top don't care about the writing as long as they've got obsessive-compulsive fanboys by their short-and-curlies who will buy worthless plastic phase-pistols because they think it's cool. The only thing that will force a major change in Trek is a massive ratings plunge that will induce the Paramount execs to hand Mr. Berman and Mr. Braga their pink slips, and either hire a completely new production staff or else let the franchise lay fallow for a few years to rest. Now, shows have made turnarounds before. Deep Space Nine itself had a major change in its series premise, but I attribute its success to Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and the fact that the higher-ups had a hands-off policy with regard to that series. The DS9 writers were creative and willing to stick their necks out; sometimes they screwed up, but they took chances and tried to be interesting. Enterprise is nothing of the sort. Enterprise is safe, and trying to be "sexy." But they're just trying to dress up a worn-down old house with some flashy gold trimmings. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga are perfectly secure in their jobs right now -- they've got big fat paychecks from Paramount, and there is (or was) a guaranteed fan base ready to swallow whatever drivel they put out -- and thus they don't take chances. They've forgotten one of the major tenets of Trek: "Risk is our business!" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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