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'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that-was-inevitable dept.

Tycoon Guy writes "There seems to be no avoiding it this season: TrekToday is reporting that the Enterprise production crew has been told they will all be fired in March, after completing filming on another four episodes. If true, that leaves only very little time to participate in the Save Enterprise campaign. But even if Enterprise is cancelled, all may not be lost: Rick Berman said today he's working on a new Trek feature film that will have "a larger scope and budget" than ever."

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  1. Re:season 4 is great by ajs · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What's karma for, if not burning....

    So in your sig, you reference a (now archived) journal entry where you blame deaths in Nepal on "aging hippies" from Amnesty International. Your claims are that:

    1. The government was, at one point, just about to win
    2. AI and others (unidentified) stepped in and negotiated a cease fire
    3. Current death toll is 10,000 (second cease fire being negotiated)

    Several things weren't discussed in your diatribe (some of which appear in the BBC article that you referenced):

    1. The maoists are attempting to overthrow an existing monarchy (constitutional monarchy, established in the early 90s)
    2. AI is never mentioned in the BBC article
    3. 10,000 people dead does not constitute genocide, no matter how appealing use of that word to support your cause may be. That's hardly even a significant conflict, sad to say

    From the CIA world factbook:
    Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist insurgency, launched in 1996, has gained traction and is threatening to bring down the regime. In 2001, the Crown Prince massacred ten members of the royal family, including the king and queen, and then took his own life. In October 2002, the new king dismissed the prime minister and his cabinet for "incompetence" after they dissolved the parliament and were subsequently unable to hold elections because of the ongoing insurgency. The country is now governed by the king and his appointed cabinet, which has negotiated a cease-fire with the Maoist insurgents until elections can be held at some unspecified future date.
    So it really doesn't sound like AI is your culprit here, but rather an amazingly inept job at running a country! I'm thinking that perhaps you want to cite your sources now....