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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] Enterprise is not without its faults. However, the improvements since Manny Coto and the Reeves-Stevens duo joined are incredible. Nevertheless, Enterprise always had an uphill battle. Berman and Braga squandered the TNG-level ratings they got from the premiere with their same old Voyager-esque crap. To their credit they did better with the Xindi arc, but that sort of thing was exactly what didn't need to happen, since it further alienated the casual Trek fanbase. Of course, the leadership problem has been partially fixed. Then there are the damned Trek fans . . . not the ones who watch, but the ones who don't but bitch and moan about how much they hate it in any venue that they can. I don't know how it became popular to crap on even decent new Trek (not even mentioning the great eps) for not living up to some vague memory of older episodes that even those older episodes don't live up to, but that's done more to kill Enterprise than anything. It's sickening, and renders it amazing Enterprise did as well as it has. This problem remains. And of course there is UPN. It's no coincidence that the last heavily-watched Trek was DS9, which wasn't on UPN. The problems with UPN not promoting Enterprise are well-known. Now UPN is aiming more for the female minority niche. I don't know how Trek does in that niche, but in any event Trek isn't exactly one's first thought regarding it. Even Babel One, which was reportedly the lowest-ratings record-holder, beat WB. NBC Universal tried a promotional experiment with Battlestar Galactica, placing it on NBC primetime instead of Sci-Fi Channel for one night. It beat CBS in the 18-49 group. If CBS did something similar . . . or just moved Enterprise to CBS altogether . . . things would be much, much better. In any case, I've pretty much vented and gotten some thoughts together for my letter to Moonves. One can only hope that this is just a ploy to make the upcoming sweeps week explode in ratings due to Bjo-Trimble-like backlash. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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