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More On Save Enterprise Donations
Malfourmed writes "TrekUnited.com today announced that three anonymous contributors from the commercial spaceflight industry have stepped forward with a $3 million pledge toward the campaign to ensure a fifth season for the recently cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise.
The benefactors explained why they believe this campaign deserves such a substantial contribution: 'We think Star Trek and especially its latest incarnation, Enterprise is the kind of TV that should be aired more often. The people responsible at Paramount think this is just a show and we want to tell them, it is not. We are in the commercial space flight industry and would like to testify that at least one out of two of all the actual entrepreneurs involved in this industry has been inspired by Star Trek; and we are not only good at watching TV sci-fi , we are also good at writing checks, big checks. The people airing this kind of TV have a responsibility; inspiration.' " We reported on this a few days ago, but this is more info about the largest donors.
A) Enterprise doesnt count as a charity, since it was on the air to make money, and was removed because it wasnt. Period. B) I dont have $3M to donate to anything, i do however donate used clothes to the salvation army, donate money to various community orgs (even when i dont really have the money) and ive participated in a ton of other forms of community fund raising. People with that much money have a responsibility to the public to not donate it to a stupid cause like saving a tv show that will no doubt be replaced by another series in the not so distant future. 3 million dollars could have put 30 homeless families into decent houses, or probably helped habitat for humanity build many more than that. Or bought food for a few hundred families for a year. If you cant see that you dont deserve to call yourself a human being.
Prior to your daughter's difficulties did you spend your money on medical research and other good causes, or did you spend it on games and computers and cell phones and big macs? Even now, do you not squander your wealth on luxuries and toys? Why do you expect more of other people?
Did "Blossom" not teach tolerance? Did "Saved By The Bell" not spread hope among its fans? Isn't "AbFab" a movement to its fans? Isn't "Gilligan's Planet" not something more than just a TV show?
Why is Star Trek more worthy of being a cultural messiah than other shows? And why a series that jumoed teh shark in the first ten minutes of teh first episode? There is nothing special about Enterprise. And if it wasn't a part of the Star Trek franchise it would have been cancled its first year and no one would have cared.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
All you're interested in is making season after season, whether it's any good or not. Why don't you concentrate on making one GOOD season rather than half a dozen crap ones? You're never going to have enough good material to fill that many episodes up, so you just end up spreading it thinly. Just look at typical US sitcoms, like Friends (400000 episodes, 12 jokes), or Star Trek (3000 episodes, 2 plots).
A better way to do this, rather than to raise a load of money then make a programme, would be to come up with some decent scripts, and then get the money to make them. Doing it this way probably means you'll end up raising a load of money, getting them to make the programmes and finding out they're crap that they threw together just because someone else was paying and they got the profit.