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Paramount Says Enterprise Cancellation Is Final
Kethinov writes "The Save Enterprise campaigns appear to have been for naught. Paramount has declared that they will not be accepting any amount of money from fans to continue to produce Star Trek Enterprise. With the decision final, Star Trek Enterprise will be the first Star Trek show since the original series not to run a full seven seasons." From the letter: "Paramount Network Television and the producers of Star Trek: Enterprise are very flattered and impressed by the fans' passionate outpouring of attention for the show and their efforts to raise funds to continue the show's production." Commentary also available from TrekToday.
Now maybe all this damn whining about a third-rate TV show will stop.
The cake is a pie
And give your Enterprise donation money to Africa or Asia. They need the money much more! People will do ANYTHING to avoid the realities of life and substitute in fictional realities these days, it seems...
Everybody lauds "Babylon 5's" story arc, and rightly so. But a very important fact sometimes gets lost in the fray:
"Babylon 5" was fundamentally really stupid.
There, I said it. I'm sorry: space aliens, time travel, one deus ex machina after another, huge plot elements that just to make no sense.
If you can swallow all that, "Babylon 5" was a pretty good TV show most of the time. But let's face it. Most people just aren't willing to swallow all that.
It's entirely possible for science fiction stories to be good. It's been done. It's within the realm of possibility. But in order to get there, you have to make as few demands on the audience's bullshit detectors as possible. When it's just one piece of absurdity right after the other, we don't call it drama. We call it comedy.
This diversity shit is off-topic and stupid anyway. Just because the show doesn't have one token dude from Lake Titticacca doesn't mean the show doesn't embrace diversity.
There weren't any big fat people in Enterprise and there's a hell of a lot of them. If they were truly embracing diversity, they should have a token fat person.
Don't forget a token mulato lesbian paraplegic, recovering from a crack addiction, who embraced the Church of Scientology. Seriously.. those people are always misrepresented.
You bastards that always count the number of tokens are the ones who are the least diverse... in your thinking.
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They must be in the same vein as the people cheering Michael Jackson outside the courthouse.
Enterprise wasn't horrible. But Babylon 5, Farscape, and Firefly have raised the bar. Battlestar Galactica is in the process of blowing the bar away. They need to clean house at Paramount Star Trek headquarters, give it a rest, and bring in completely new people.
How can these people be trying to save Enterprise when shows like Battlestar Galactica are clearly doing so well? Isn't that like trying desperately to get back together with an Anna Nicole Smith when a Scarlett Johansonn is calling on the other line for a date?
Give. It. Up.