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A lot of people are probably very happy now. Nearly every site I visited, people bitched and moaned about Enterprise and wished for its cancellation.
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Shit! This fucking sucks..... Sorry, can't think of anything more eloquent to say right now. They may be able to take Enterprise away, but look what happened when they cancelled TOS. I have faith.
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Sorry guys, but I won't shed a tear for this show. Every episode I have seen of Enterprise was shitty at best.
I never got attached to any of the characters, I hated that arrogant T'Pol bitch, and when I see Scott Bakula I am always reminded of a certain gay neighbour of Kevin Spacey...
No honestly, better cancel it now than drag it on like they did with Voyager.
Let Star Trek rest for a while!
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Enterprise may have had some teething problems, but they should have worked on it instead of just quitting. The phrase we would use here is: 'this is kak.'
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quote:Originally posted by Austin Powers: Sorry guys, but I won't shed a tear for this show. [SNIP]
While I agree with the sentiment, in my opinion it's a bit inappropriate to debate the issue in this thread. Some people liked the show and are unhappy with its cancellation; if I were one of them, I'd want to be left in peace about it at the moment.
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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.
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323-956-5000 (Paramount's posted number) followed by speaking the name David Stapf ("staff") into their voice-recognition system gets you the office of Paramount Network Television president David Stapf. The girl there does not know the complaint procedure, but if they get enough calls I'm sure she'll learn it quickly enough.
The publicly-posted Paramount number also gets one the number of Les Moonves. The voice-recog system freaks and sends you to an operator when you say that name. The operator says that 323-575-2345 gets you the office of Les Moonves. This was given openly with no inquiry as to my need, so it is not secret information.
You can also write Paramount Television at:
Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue Hollywood, CA 90038
And of course there's SaveEnterprise.com.
On your feet, soldiers. It might not do a lick of good in the long run, but let's make sure history remembers the name Enterprise.
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