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Er, they brought on the Borg in the first place because the fans were so displeased with their original, intended direction. Fans cried "Borg! Borg! Where are the Borg?" and they needed to answer. So, they had "Blood Fever" and "Unity". "Oops, they all didn't like those," says Taylor to Braga. "Let's restructure the original 'Year of Hell'-like cliffhanger you were going to write with Joe to a Borg-related one."
And there you have why the Borg became Voyager's toy: the fans.
Oh, and it's oh so terrible to pay reference to past Trek! Horrible, I tell you, to place Voyager in the establshed Trek canon! Evil, evil!
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The "Future's End" gaffe is not an isolated mistake and not just one on Voyager, although admittedly the DS9 one was a mistake, too...
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You're talking about the reference to the Eugenics wars being around two centuries before DS9, right? I don't think it was a mistake. I think the staff is trying to change the date on purpose. "Just move the date forward a century or two and we won't contradict real history."
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Well, Ron Moore specifically mentioned it was a mistake, and he even said that it had come about because he was channeling Khan's speech from ST II. "On Earth...200 years ago...I was a prince."
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------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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No Trek and no Trek make Chris go crazy....
I am totally with Bernd. If Trek gets more than a year's break, I'll go nutso. Unless they make lots and lots of novels and I suddenly get rich so I can get every one that comes out, and Brandon keeps SOV going...
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Well, if this is the collected intelligence of the fans, Paramount have no worries. We've had one post saying "Voyager is crap, but I watch it cause it's Trek", and someone else who says that "Neelix is one of the best characters on Voyager".
See? It doesn't matter WHAT Paramount do. You'll all watch it. Like you all went to see Star Wars. Like, even after gripping about it, you'll still go and see episode 2. Because it's Star Wars. And because Star Trek is Star Trek.
And, realism break here people. Let's imagine the situation
Berman: "Hey, I know! I'll tell my bosses to give Trek a break for a few years. I'm sure they'll pay me to just sit in my office for 5 years brainstorming a new series. They'll pay Brannon too. And when the new series starts, we'll have our jobs to come back to. Along with everyone else."
Trek makes Paramount money. As long as it continues to do so, they'll make Trek. Even if Insurrection didn't do as well as FC, it made money. And at the end of the day, that's the most important thing for the suits.
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