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"Dude, this is totally the episode where they have to save the day with recursion!"
Is what I would say to my elite nerd team. We would be reading GEB and writing those programs which print out their source code.
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I think "Doctor Who" once had a story where the day was saved by recursion. Or maybe recursion was the problem in the first place. I've forgotten.
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We haven’t been told they cut the budget. (Besides, an episode of Enterprise costs more than $1.7M to make anyway. They make up for it on non-UPN sales and will make up for it on syndication.)
TV Guide said that Paramount dropped its selling price to UPN. Paramount (the studio) took a loss so that Enterprise would be more likely to get purchased in second-run syndication (they want around 100 episodes so that they don’t have only two or three months’ worth to sell ). They want to make more money off it once it’s cancelled.
Now, that said, the budget probably will drop, but not as much as the selling price did...
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Selling price drop. I also concluded this would mean a budget slash. Of course, if they only last a half-season (end in Jan.) then the money could stretch that long
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On the brighter side, if they want to reach their goal of 100, we could get a "full" [24 ep] season.
I really do have faith in the series, much much moreso than I did for Voyager....despite missing the middle of last season due to UPNs lousy tv reception. (Maybe they could use the money they are skimming out of Enterprise to boost my UPNs station wattage to that of one capible of reaching antennas on tvs that are located outside of their 10mile broadcast radius. Fuckin FOX and UPN are broadcasted from the same building here in town (<10miles from here) and yet I can get FOX in without an antenna but cannot get UPN in with an antenna.)
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Well, $1.7M is a actually a ridiculous amount of money for 40 minutes of television. With that kind of money, you could've made 1.7 million episodes of Blake's 7
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1.7 million seems to be enough to make an independent Trek feature film, IMO.
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Bear in mind that Nemesis went over budget to almost $90M and a Voyager episode was budgeted at almost $2M. "Broken Bow" cost $12M.
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quote:Originally posted by JC Ultra Magnus: "Captain Jonathan Archer never returned Home."
I like this idea. Archer jumps around in time, or "leaps" if you will, arriving on Enterprise at different points during the mission. He replaces different crew members in an attempt to right certain mistaken decisions that lead to the launch of the Xindi probe.
Daniels appears to him from the 31st century in the form of a hologram that noone else can see.
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Okay, I'm confused...do you like the show or not? I know you used to hate it, but then you seemed to like season 3. Which is it, foreign-boy?
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Oh, go bleach your hair, Britney. Just because I like the show more doesn't mean I'm going to deprive myself of the simple pleasures like slagging it off.
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Yes, I was linking the sale price to the actual budget. It still most likely translates to a budget slash. More bottle shows, less location filing (though to its credit, I think ENT has made fewer shows on location in S3 and barely enone noticed).
Hm - Trek has suffered a budget slash and move to Friday before... 1968, I believe.
Mark
PS - TSN, look up "Logopolis". It was the problem.
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Of all the Who episodes to forget, that seems a strange one...
And Lee..."Eminem", not "Britney".
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Hm - Trek has suffered a budget slash and move to Friday before... 1968, I believe.
Too bad they didn't do that last season then.
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