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TrekUnited Campaign Ends

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the darwin-executed-enterprise dept.

ForteMaster writes "TrekUnited, the controversial campaign to save Enterprise from cancellation, has ended its campaign today. Interestingly enough, the article mentions that "a multiple of the money raised by TrekUnited so far" was being offered, with "further details to be released shortly". A case of counting the chickens before they've hatched, maybe? Here is some commentary from TrekToday on the subject."

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  1. Donations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do I send money to if I want to make sure Paramount continues to not make Star Trek shows?

    Just askin', is all.

    1. Re:Donations by Aurin+Wildfire · · Score: 5, Informative
      Now they call off the battle and wow, look they are $144,173 richer.


      "Our final proposal was knocked down by Paramount. We will not see a season five for Star Trek Enterprise," wrote Jane Braz in a post at the Trek Fans United Forum, speaking on behalf of TrekUnited founder Tim Brazeal. The group said that it would begin refunding donations on Monday or Tuesday."
  2. Re:Sad by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I suspect it's a ma[tt]er of keeping creative control, though I don't know the full details of the Paramount offer. While Enterprise might be a separate part of the entire series, what happened during it clearly has an impact on later shows. Outsourcing such a key series would constrain the keepers of Star Trek canon.

    In some ways, it's sad because it shows Paramount do plan to continue extending the series further and further. It's kind of the equivalent of that Mercury Grand Marquis or Buick Park Avenue you see with the Canadian license plates in the left lane, blinker on, vehicle driving at 5, 10, 20 below the speed limit, annoying just about everyone. You can't fault the drivers, they're clearly too old to know better, but it'll continue doing the wrong thing at the wrong pace until different drivers come along, and, truth be told, at that point you're probably looking at the type of kid who'll do the car up with spinners and under-the-body neon lights.

    So you end up feeling, really, that maybe the old people, with their poor eyesight and slow reactions, really are the best people to drive the car, and once they no longer have use for it, that the car should, really, be sent to the dump.

    Of course, the other solution is we move to driverless cars. Then this whole business of people going at 75, or even 80, on a highway clearly marked as 70, will be a thing of the past. In the analogy, I guess, this would mean handing over control of the Star Trek series to a computer. With the right AI, this would be in many ways the most fitting solution and the best tribute to what Trek stood for. Technology being used to help mankind, exploring areas never explored before.

    To boldly go, indeed, where no man has gone before.

    --
    You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
  3. Shatner School of Punctuation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think, this poster, went, to the Shatner, school, of, punctuation. ;-)

  4. Re:Sad by FriedTurkey · · Score: 5, Funny


    Kirk: Bones. What is wrong with this post?

    McCoy: He has taken an analogy way to far.

    Kirk: Can you fix it?

    McCoy: Dammit Jim. I am a doctor not a moderator.