The Business of Star Trek

angkor writes "Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus." And that my friends, is why Nemesis didn't even have to be a really good movie.

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It didn't have to

[bahamat]

But it was!

get a clue

[g4dget]

but this is exactly the kind of nonsense that these Free/Open Source hypocrites don't like to talk about. "Oh dear, no way would I use Microsoft products. Everything should be free! Free software, free tech support, free ISPs, etc."

You have no idea what you are talking about. Free software is about freedom to reuse, redistribute, and change software that you use. That has nothing to do with whether you pay for the software or not. I have paid a lot of money for free software over the years, as have many other people. In fact, tech support and services are some of the main ways in which free software advocates recommend making money with free software.

Don't mean to sound vicious or judgemental or anything,

No, you just sound stupid.

Fat weird comic store guy sez

[gelfling]

You can't make fun of religion

OK, except... this movie was intended to be good

[michaelmalak]

I thought it was halfway decent -- better than all the odd-numbered movies and not as good as the even-numbered movies. The biggest problem I had with Nemesis is that it was a little too haughty -- it stepped on too many sacred cows:

• It incorporated the theme from the TOS movies. While the original TV theme is a requirement, the TOS movie theme is the domain of the TOS cast, in my opinion, and shouldn't have been used in a TNG movie.
• The Star Trek logo was changed in a way just for this movie. While it might have been appropriate to change the Star Trek logo for a genre of movies, such as all TNG movies, or a trilogy of TNG movies at the smallest subset, changing it for just one movie is just too haughty.

Brent Spiner obviously put his heart and soul into this movie. But he wasn't humble about it, for the above reasons, and because he went through the whole movie with that p***ed off look. I can't believe I haven't read the comment on Slashdot yet, "Why was Data constipated the whole movie?"

Every appearance of this movie was not that it wasn't intended to be just another movie in the franchise (as suggested by this article, being published at the time of the movie release), as Insurrection was (it was just a TNG episode, not an epic). This was intended to be a good movie, and I might have even thought it better than ST8 if it hadn't been for the haughtiness.

Re:Does it say if the majority of the $4 bil

[soulcuttr]

is pre- or pro- Roddenbury?

Good question -- also I wonder how much of it was anti-Roddenbury.

Try "pre- or post- Roddenberry"

-Sou|cuttr

Re:PHIRST POAZT

[Jrod5000 at RPI]

i will mod you down because YOU ARE REDUNDANT!!