Yeah, I don't think that's bad either. It's refreshing to have a show in this day and age with such tight security that there have been so few leaks. We all can go in largely surprised as we should be.
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It's because they're filming in Canada. The Canadians are too polite to leak anything.
No, we just apologize afterwards.
I think it was after Ted's really innocuous pics, at least that's when photos of the 'do not take photos' started surfacing.
I'll third that. I try telling myself that I should be more excited about it, but that ship sailed.
If it ends up being a good series, I know my excitement will return really quickly. I do hope it turns out good. We've just been strung along too far now.
Hadn't considered that! I hope not though - despite giving nothing away, he knows how to tease!
Probably won't happen. No leaks now doesn't mean we won't have heaps of stuff spoiled before we sit down to watch it. I mean, that would be awesome and I hope you're right, but I doubt it. Preview screeners, reviews, leaks, they'll probably all come before you and I get to watch it. Especially as I'll have to wait 'til a full day after the US release before I can watch it.
It doesn't distract me from the worry about the show being delayed yet again because of a writers strike.
An agreement was reached early this morning to avoid a writer's strike. Surprised it has not been reported by anyone on here. It could mean we get a release date soon.
That's good news.
I also feel disappointed by this inane "secrecy" surrounding the production (it's just a TV show, not covert black ops project!). But I think we should all pause to remember that for pretty much every other ST series, the only "leaks" we used to get were about four photos spread into a Starlog article.
Someone recently posted the TNG preview trailer from '87. That's everything I knew about the series before the premiere. Well, that, and I knew there was a Klingon, an android with an unbelievably stupid name (Data, really?!) and that the captain was in Excalibur and Life Force -- which I actually rented on VHS in order to see his performance.
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That's not entirely correct. I went to a con where Majel Barrett was talking extensively about what to expect from TNG, mentioning that Data was based on Questor, etc...
The point was that information was only available in either small quantities, or in your case at a limited/localized event. Those of us who didn't live near Cons had to rely on the former.
Not really - Usenet and local dial up modem BBSes spread info across the country RE: TNG fairly quickly.
The number of people who had access to these services -- or actually used them on a regular basis because of cost -- is much smaller than those who surf TrekBBS. I got my first computer in about 1982, and a modem a couple years later. But I can count on my fingers the amount of times I used a dial-up service (which required a long distance call because there was no local number for it).
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And the first time I used the Internet in the UK was at a technology fayre with school in about 1993. The Internet prior to the mid-to-late nineties really wasn't that common or accessible, even if it did exist. We didn't get the Internet at home until 1997, and that was when we lived abroad.
Not to mention services such as The Source, CompuServe, and QuantumLink that collectively had hundreds of thousands of subscribers. The 1980's might have been primitive by today's tech standards, but hardly the Stone Age. Word most certainly got around.
I had full Internet and Usenet access in 1982 as I was getting my Computer Science degree in programming. Back then Usenet had the 'net.startrek' newsgroup and it was active.
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