quote:And ENT isn't likely to have much more than that, either. Not on a regular basis, anyway.
Yes, especially since Enterprise's budget has been cut, and most of the rest of Season One will be bottle shows. I doubt we'll even see any other Earth Starfleet vessels, except for re-uses of the Enterprise whenever they build more NX class ships.
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Was Enterprise's budget cut? Or was it more like, "listen, we spent a great deal of cash on the first few episodes then we budgeted, and now we need to recoup from later episodes. You'll get it back next season."
Bottle shows? Shit. Many of DS9's early episodes were bottle shows, and from any of TOS, TNG, and VOY, you'll find TONS of bottle shows.
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A bottle show is an episode of Star trek (or any TV series for that matter) that takes place with no 'gimmicks' entirely on the main sets with only the main characters (or only one or two guest stars or new sets anyway) its used to save money because there are no guest stars to pay, no new sets to build and no new models, art, etc. to be created. While people criticize bottle shows because they are created because of budgetary concerns, there have been some good ones, such as 'The Doomsday Machine' (which took place entirely on Enterprise sets with one guest star).
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But let's not forget that "Doomsday Machine" had a real model instead of the standard blur. Even the Klingons got blurred a few times.
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"The Doomsday Machine" not only had a model of the Constellation (admittedly just a model kit w/ some burns on it), it also had the planet killer itself, and the VFX that went w/ it.
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In that case, my latest hate-ep: VOY Human Error. Everything gets totally shot-to-hell for Seven, ending the episode cry-baby style, with "well if it's that difficult then let's stop developing human-skills altogether".
It seemed like a chickenshit way for the writers to save themselves the trouble of having to write more Seven-developing eps. It was so depressing, like the writers said "Well that's as far as you'll get, seven, not that we thought you'd succeed in the first place. Hope you had fun (although the concept is foreign to you), now go back to the algorithms..."
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