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I'll take Intendant Kira's leather outfit, a starfleeet "compression" rifle and Odo's bucket.
Oh! I also want Sisko's baseball! The ultimate prop, right there. Nothing says "I'll be back to kick your sorry cardassian ass." like Sisko's baseball.
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Agreed- crap lke Charmed would have still been schlocked out.
Doctor Who obviously would have still been made.
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I'll take the planet killer and attack Jason's fleet.
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There's a guy that laready made a 2500th scale planetkiller- I made a thread on it here if you want to look up pics. It's over 6' long.
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"I'll take the planet killer and attack Jason's fleet."
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Agreed- crap lke Charmed would have still been schlocked out.
Doctor Who obviously would have still been made.
Studios don't take gambles. Charmed etc. would not have made it passed a pitch if 'supernatural' type shows like the X-Files didn't make it big - and THAT show wouldn't have seen the light of day if shows like The Next Generation and Twin Peaks came along to show that there is an audience for hour long dramas of a science-fiction/fantasy nature. It's all about ratings and $$$$$ TNG showed it was profitable again to do shows like Trek.
Doctor Who would not have come along again in the hour-long format, if it wasn't for the success of the shows I've mentioned - mainly Trek, Stargate, X-Files and more importantly Buffy. It was bloody CANCELLED in the first place in the old format during early TNG.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: There's a guy that laready made a 2500th scale planetkiller- I made a thread on it here if you want to look up pics. It's over 6' long.
LOL 2500th scale - it's always about 2500th scale with you Jason!
What does the guy do with it - have sex with it?
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I think it's mounted on his walll like a prize fish.
Besides, can you really imagine having sex to the Planetkiller music? I'd be laughing my ass off!
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"Studios don't take gambles. Charmed etc. would not have made it passed a pitch if 'supernatural' type shows like the X-Files didn't make it big - and THAT show wouldn't have seen the light of day if shows like The Next Generation and Twin Peaks came along to show that there is an audience for hour long dramas of a science-fiction/fantasy nature."
The clear flaw in your logic is : if "Charmed" was only made because "The X-Files" was popular, and "The X-Files" was only made because TNG and "Twin Peaks" were popular, why were TNG and "Twin Peaks" made? Obviously, there has to be a beginning to the chain ; a "gamble" has to be taken at some point. So, if TNG had never been made, any of those other shows could have been created out of whole cloth, and any of the good ones could have kick-started the progressive multitude of sci-fi/fantasy shows.
Also, while "Doctor Who" was cancelled (or, as it turns out, put on super-ultra-mega-hiatus) during the early days of TNG, it had, at that point, been on the air for 26 years and survived one previous attempt at cancellation. So I hardly think TNG can take any credit for its being popular enough to have a revival. Hell, it was already popular enough to survive the replacement of its primary actor back when the original "Star Trek" was just starting.
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TNG's success was due in large part to two things: Firstly, there was very little sci-fi compitition on US Tevevision at the time.
Second, it was pitched directly to the syndicated market: making it widely available everywhere for a relativly cheap consumer station cost.
That lack of availibility helped to kill Enterprise (and having the albatross of UPN around it's neck surely was a factor).
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