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Should Star Trek Die?
securitas writes "The New York Times Television reporter William S. Kowinski writes about questions of the Star Trek franchise's viability due to overexposure, audience fatigue and creative exhaustion. Star Trek actor and director LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge) is in favor of a hiatus, and is quoted as saying, 'Star Trek's just not special enough, not anymore.... They need to shut the whole thing down, wait five years, create an interest, an excitement, a hunger for it again.' Also quoted are Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and executive producer Rick Berman. The article is particularly salient given the recent announcement of Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer online game scheduled to launch in 2007. Remember that Activision sued Viacom over the Star Trek franchise last year, ending the license despite a 10-year licensing agreement that originally expired in 2008. So the question is: Should Star Trek die?"
Too many channels are playing too many episodes of all the Star Trek series. Let it die.
The writing sucked to begin with. Too many mindless drones keep watching it and the TV stations keep putting it on for the Trek Zombie Army.
Let it Die
Fear is the enemy; the one true enemy. {Sun Tzu-The Art of War}
My preferences are Star Trek, ST: Enterprise, ST: The Legend Continues, ST Voyager, and DS9. The last two being so bad I think I watched 5 episodes total.
I was skeptical about Bakula. I couldn't stand Quantum Leap, each week it was the same woman/black/retard/chimp fighting for liberation. He seems to recognize, or at least is taking direction from someone who does, that the part requires some testosterone.
And let's face it T'Pol is hot. It's the Spock/Bones relationship again, but this time the Vulcan is one sexy bitch. Yeah baby!