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Do I want to live in a world where we do not boldly go where no man has gone before? I don’t think so. That’s this world and it’s lame as crap. That’s why Star Trek is so awesome. It’s our future, if we get off our sorry duffs and get out there.
Yet this fall TV will be like real life. Is this Reality TV gone too far? There will be no 5 year mission. There will be no seeking new life and new civilizations. And there will be no boldly going where no man has gone before.
There will no new Star Trek coming this fall. No Enterprise. No Federation. No captain to follow, no Vulcan logic to drive us mad. Just a chorus of Klingons this May shouting “Today IS a good day to die!”
UPN’s latest move, to cancel Star Trek, follows a death move to Friday night worse than any Borg attack. Moving it Friday, the so called “Date Night”, where it runs up against critically acclaimed Joan of Arcadia and of course Sci-FI’s SciFriday. Anyone with common sense knows you do NOT pit two sci fi shows against one another. It was fairly obvious at that point UPN was ordering a coffin to launch into space for a burial.
Regardless that this season has by far been the best, and that it has generally taken several seasons for Star Trek shows to hit their stride, UPN has boldly gone where no Network has gone before. Cancelled their big show with absolutely nothing to take its place.
A network is hard pressed to steal FOX’s not-so-coveted title of Moronic Network, yet UPN has done so today. Will Fox try to capture this flag once more? Is there anything they could do to be worse than UPN this week? Hard to say.
The Sci-Fi genre has taken a major blow this day. A major blow. Meanwhile, I believe it is time to start wearing black. And send scads of hate mail to UPN. Anyone think if we send cheese for the Captain’s dog it would do any good?
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loadhan said:
Do you think 500+ “Kllingons” in homemade arrmor and homecrafted real bhat’leths standing outside Paramount studios would change their minds? 😛
I’d like to say there is still time… a writing campaign saved the last Star Trek series that got cancelled. And maybe they could be pursueded to sell the rights to another station or syndication. GRsA was another space-based series of special effects that did syndication recently (of course it did move to SciFi). I don’t think we’re too from DS9 and B5… but would they be willing to do so?
Gods, how many bad things are going to happen this week…….
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Lady Ozma said:
Well we saved Roswell
Two cancellations and it still made it three seasons. THis is about when season 1 was said to be it. Everyone sent in Tabasco. Then this time the following year, WB once more said “Cancelled” so tabasco went to WB and UPN. UPN picked it up. They then cancelled it but at least wrote in a good ending since it coincided with graduation anyway.
This is a bad bad week. This is horrible. I say we start sending in cheese for the doggy. 🙂 What else can we send in?
B5 got picked up by TNT of all people. There’s hope! ROFL
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tx_belle said:
Re: Well we saved Roswell
i love star trek i think generations has always been my favorite. and i love scott……do you hear a but coming?
but i have never been able to get into enterprise. i tried but i haven’t enjoyed it like i did the others.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: Well we saved Roswell
I think it’s the best one yet. Each series got better and better. TNG upped the effects and of course had Wesley. DS9 totally went a different tack and was really cool. Even if I missed the first few seasons, due to no tv channel with it, making it harder to get into. Then out came Voyager and finally a female captain and I loved the whole totally different area of space and how they were trying to get home and it just had a different feel as it wasn’t quite the regular Star Trek yet it was. Then Enterprise with the lower tech and we got to see the birth… We weren’t this perfect peaceful group of erudites with all the answers. For once we were the ones struggling and having someone tell us “You gotta learn for yourself.” I’d always wanted to see something along this lines since that’s how the other shows went. “Oh you’re not on our level yet, you need to work your way up.” Love to see the other side of the boat.
I just can’t believe UPN which has nothing to its name except Star Trek is turning its back on the franchise. I can’t believe that the only thing that has kept them from shutting the channel down in the past is the one thing they are abandoning.
I look forward to seeing the big notice of: UPN retires network.
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