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[Wolfie]

War Declared...On Romulus

Posted: Friday July 9th, 2004 10:26pm (Au-EST)

Author: Garth Franklin

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There's five stages to milking a cash cow. You can squeeze and get gold (the high point), milk (the good times), water (the dull spots), shit (the shark has been jumped), and blood (painful continuance). The "Star Trek" franchise passed blood somewhere around the turn of this century and yet the powers that be are still squeezing despite many ardent fans (including myself) lining up with shotguns to put the poor beast down whilst the good memories are still there.

Well you have to give credit to Rick Berman and co., they don't know the meaning of the word quit. Despite both external and internal pressure to haul their asses off the franchise, they're still speaking up about plans to do a 'prequel' movie and confirmed some new details to the latest Star Trek Communicator magazine which have since appeared over on Trekweb. Have those hatchets ready:

"Berman for the first time says that the eleventh STAR TREK film will be a prequel set before the time of 'James T. Kirk', but that it will not be related to the fifth television series "Enterprise"". Brannon Braga went onto say that why there'll be no mention of the Romulan Wars in "Enterprise" in its upcoming fourth season is that "there's also a prequel feature in development regarding the Romulan Wars, so we might have to stay away from that". The show instead will wrap up its 'Temporal Cold War' storyline and drop further hints about the founding of the Federation and the Eugenics War.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040709c.php

Personally I never warmed up the "Enterprise" myself but the Next Generation crew were getting pretty old and without Data the gang wasn't the same.

[CTC Command]

I don't know. I have no opinion on this new movie; the Trek movies are all a mixed bag. Hopefully it won't suck. As far as Enterprise, I thought the first season was more successful than most Trek series' first outings, but then it lost itself in season two and seemed to be lost in sensationalism in a bid to up ratings that probably alienated (pun intended) many longtime Trekkies. Then the third season...I don't know if I will watch the next season. Potato advised me not to, and I think it was sound advice. I am disgusted by several things.

Can't they make an enemy that won't succumb to the milk of human kindness? The Xindi were interesting until Archer lamely convinced some of them them to become humanity's friends, then it turned into maudlin dreck only salvaged by Archer's self-sacrifice at the end of the final episode. How many times had the main characters from James T. Kirk on get saved by the transporter, seemingly 'after' the last second. At last the deus ex machina was set aside and the reality that in war even important or crucial characters die could have been explored for the first time in the 30+ years of the franchise.

BUT NO

Instead Archer somehow survived and is captured by...Nazi's?!!

Suspension of disbelief is a crucial element of any work of fiction, even science fiction. Maybe someone should explain this to Bergman and co

[Ken]

After DS9, it all became uninteresting to me. I never watched "Voyager", and I became bored with "Enterprise" after about 5 episodes.

I liked the "First Contact" movie, but disliked "Insurrection" very much.

However, I DID like "Nemesis", which many didn't.

I think, however, ST's time has come. It's over.

[Kooperman]

It's dead, Jim.

[nate]

It's dead, Jim.

that doesn't mean much in a series that killed off almost all of its main characters and resurrected them

they'll just fire the franchise into a temporal distortion field, or an unstable genesis project planetoid