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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?"
a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
The good of the many outweighs the needs of the few...
Star Trek can't die. It can enter a state of suspended animation, however, and that's what it should do. Hibernate, if you will, to be revived when we have the technology to cure it. Put the whole thing in a time capsule and dig it up in five years, conveniently "forgetting" to pack any oxygen for Berman. That should do the trick nicely.
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Sorry this is so cruel, but it made me laugh.
John
If Star Trek would die, so would half of the conversations on Slashdot!
ok, I'd pay to see shatner playing a dead guy with scottie and bones taking him around the ship pretending he's alive.
I think Timothy should have posted this story here
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I mean, come on!
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Yeah but . . . what have "In Search Of . . . " and "Reading Rainbow" have to do with Star Trek? ;-)
And this is different from any of his other star trek appearances how?
funny munging
He isn't dead, Jim
Thats pretty much all that can save it. Marina Sirtis should get naked and service Brent Spiner.
"In Search Of..." and "Reading Rainbow" (ISO and RR for those of us who know and love the Trek Canon) are two of the least-watched and certainly least understood of the Trek Shows.
ISO was a Spock vehicle, a spinoff meant to explore the mind of our favorite Vulcan. Week after week he would show off his latest research; giving us a sense of what he was doing, peering into that scope of his while Kirk was seducing the alien babes.
Spock's facination with UFOs (naturally) later gave way to an obsession with Uri Geller and the Bermuda Triangle, by which time, most Trekkers left feeling that this show had jumped the shark.
RR was a prequel to the TNG storyline -- wherein a very gifted warp physics engineer shows his softer side by reading children's books, set at a time before he was blinded in a tragic e-book explosion. Paramount, for reasons that are not totally clear, decided to set this futuristic space adventure somewhere in modern times, and sadly, the pilot that explains the temporal anomoly was never aired and is lost to posterity.
Hope that clears things up.
Once they found out more people like Hoshi than T'Pol, I noticed Hoshi became a lot more scarce. That is just dumb.
You'll lust after whom Rick Berman wants you to lust!
Fall in line, ensign!
You can't take the sky from me...
and take Star wars with it.
[ I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance ] -- Isaac Asimov
stopping startrek...
stopping starwars...
stopping stargate...
"kill -9" 'em all!
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
The lameness filter won't let me post the joke contents, so I'll just post the link:
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Top Ten Bad Things About Star Trek
It's obviously written by someone who has watched too much star trek