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Fans Attempting to Pay for Enterprise

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the maybe-for-firefly-but-not-for-enterprize dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What started of as a suggestion to pay for season 5 of Enterprise has actully snowballed into a project that no one has ever attempted before, that of getting fans to pay for the production costs of a tv series. It has brought on board a raft of people including lawyers. I wonder if the quoted $50 to $80 million is reachable." I gotta say that Enterprise has been better this season, but I feel like it's still only mediocre. Battlestar Galactica might be the best SciFi airing right now. And I woulda chipped in for more Firefly in a heartbeat.

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  1. I look at it this way... by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Star Trek has been kept running on the popularity of the mythos, of the franchise. It has always been self-sustaining, through its own quality. If a Star Trek show is in such a bad state that it needs to rely on fan charity to survive... it isn't worth keeping.

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    The coolest voice ever.
  2. They expect to raise 50-80 Million? by solowCX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After 9/11 when Amazon starting taking donations they only made $6.8 million dollars, and that was a big thing where over 170,000 people donated. They expect Trekkies to pay more just for a show?

  3. Re:Misapproriated Funds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    No one (except maybe your wife/gf, but this is slashdot) tells you what you can and can't do with your money.

    You've got to be kidding. Everyone tells me what I should do with my money. The governement is the worst. They have guns and prisons for me if I don't spend my money in ways they accept.