TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies

Lord Prox writes "TrekUnited.com has the scoop on the LA/Paramount, Tel Aviv, and New York rallies. Surprises include a group of donors pledging a resounding $3mil and the appearances of cast and crew members. Reuters and Wired have details on the rallies and I took a few snapshots as well."

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ORNL Federal Credit Union

[fembots]

The campaign to save the show is headed by Trekkie Tim Brazeal. Brazeal, 42, is galvanizing thousands of fans worldwide to collect $32 million to pay for the cost of a fifth season of Star Trek: Enterprise.

The contributed money is transferred to a secure account set up at ORNL Federal Credit Union which only multiple trustees can access.

Looks like they have things covered, no? After all, $32 million is not $32,000

Have a Break & Save Star Trek

[reporter]

I agree in that we should have, at least, a 1-year break. It will create pent-up demand. Further, 1 year will give us time to find some good writers, directors, and actors.

Contrary to popular belief, the best actors and writers are not necessarily the veterans: Tom Cruise, James Woods, etc. You can find awesome writers and actors who are fresh out of acting school.

Let's pool all the money from this "save Star Trek" campaign. Then, the head of this campaign spends the next year in going to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. to hire some new graduates as writers and actors. They will be hungry for work.

Most of them will have some limited experience in the field, and I suspect that they will do a much better job than the current crew. I know of, at least, 2 actors who have had formal training from these top universities; the actors include Henry Winkler and Meryl Streep. They are relatively good at what they do.

To start things on the right track, I'll toss out an idea to explain away the "Enterprise" fiasco. The camera zooms in on a lieutenant, a new graduate of Star Fleet Academy. He is lying in bed. Suddenly, he awakes with a shiver. He has just had a nightmare.

He calls a friend on the mobile communicator and says, "I have just had the worst nightmare in which I lived a version of the ancient history taught at Star Fleet Academy. The entire universe was screwed up. Hand-held phasers are called 'phase pistols', and on-board phasers are called 'phase cannons'. Further, some incompetent moron was serving as Captain. Also, one of the engineers spoke Ebonics, which was eradicated from earth centuries ago. Also, there was this Vulcan with big breasts, and she tried to act sexy. Ugh. It just did not work. Bit breasts with a boyish haircut but without emotions just does not make "sexy". She looked horribly repulsive. It scared the living daylights out of me."

The voice out of the communicator says, "Don't worry. It was just a nightmare. Everyone knows that Vulcans do not have big breasts. <laughter> Go back to bed, James."

The lieutenant answers, "You have a wry sense humor. It will serve you well in medical school."

The voice out of the communicator says, "Thanks for the encouragement. I want to be called 'Doctor McCoy' some day."

You mean to tell me...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

That people living under the incredible political circumstances of Israel, and facing the creeping Fascist takeover of the United States find nothing more worthy of their resonsibility for Civil Disobedience than the demise of a fscking T.V. Show?

That whirring sound is the twin-dynamo of MLK and Ghandi, spinning in their graves.

It defies satire! Guy Debord could not have had nightmares this bad! It is a demeaning insult to the people who have had to resort to protest actions for redress of real injury and oppression.

Then, tomorrow was another day
The morning found me miles away
With still a millions things to say,
Now, as twilight beams the sky above
Recalling thrills of our love
There's one thing I'm certain of,
Return, I will,
To old Brazil.

Re:You mean to tell me...

[NaruVonWilkins]

I know, man, I know. It's amazing the suffering people just don't give a shit about, but they're totally addicted to their television. Imagine, I paid something like a thousand dollars for this computer. That's more than most people in a third world country make in a year.

Mission Successful?

[istewart]

Does this mean that they convinced Paramount to give up and not bother airing the last... 6 or however many Enterprise episodes are left?

Re:A Few Notes:

[ericdano]

Come on, if there is no cure for baldness but there is hyperdrive, something is wrong.

TNG sucked. Star Trek is dead. Make the madness stop. No more movies, nothing. Federal laws should be enacted to hold Paramount to a 5 year haitus on the Star Trek crap.