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Kurtzman Out?

We even lost a portion of DS9 during the tail end of its run because the cost was more than the local station could reel in from commercial time.

There was no cost to the local stations. Paramount and local stations split the commercial time. Paramount selling the national ads and the stations selling the local ads. As far as I know there were no fees paid by the local stations. If your station preempted any DS9 episodes there must have been a different reason. Maybe to show local sports teams.
 
There was no cost to the local stations. Paramount and local stations split the commercial time. Paramount selling the national ads and the stations selling the local ads. As far as I know there were no fees paid by the local stations. If your station preempted any DS9 episodes there must have been a different reason. Maybe to show local sports teams.

Maybe it was they earned more off of other programming. Though it wasn’t sports.
 
Doomcock is more a Trek fan than johnny-come-lately types who are more interested in debating a "sexist" line from Elaan of Troyius for 10 pages than enjoying a good story.

Translation: Those who debate sexism in past episodes are not true fans. True fans are exemplified by youtube liars that fleece their audience by outright untruths an capitalizing on their racist and misogynist leanings.

How long is an appropriate amount of pages to debate sexism before one has their true fan status revoked?

I recall you once linking and suggesting people watch a 59 minute "Rey is a Mary Sue" diatribe on youtube once. How did that work out for you? Perhaps you can explain just how many pages a thread on the sexism in Elaan of Troyius should run since you were knee deep in the previous thread about it several years ago. Don't worry, you're true fan credentials are safe with us. We wont tell Doompud about it.
 

I agree with you that people should just enjoy the episode. "Elaan of Troyious" was made when it was and that's just the way things were back then. People have to take into context when an episode was made before evaluating it.

But it also swings the other way. Some people would enjoy DSC a lot more if they just enjoyed it rather than be so focused on picking it apart. Such people picking apart DSC because of their hang-ups are doing the same thing as those picking apart "Elaan of Troyious" based on things that didn't stand out negatively at the time.
 
Doomcock is more a Trek fan than johnny-come-lately types who are more interested in debating a "sexist" line from Elaan of Troyius for 10 pages than enjoying a good story.

I'll simply repost here what I posted there...

BillJ said:
Not sure I see a problem with discussing where Trek made its mistakes? With new material being made, I imagine new people are being exposed to TOS.

Though it now seems like TOS is the racist uncle that we keep trying to keep quiet as to not offend our new friends.

I enjoy the original Star Trek immensely, it is my favorite TV show ever. At the same time, I can understand that it has some pretty big warts that make me cringe, and that those warts have no place in modern TV/movie productions.
 
But it also swings the other way. Some people would enjoy DSC a lot more if they just enjoyed it rather than be so focused on picking it apart. Such people picking apart DSC because of their hang-ups are doing the same thing as those picking apart "Elaan of Troyious" based on things that didn't stand out negatively at the time.
It's a rather interesting conundrum isn't it? On the one hand, there is the opinion that Star Trek should be enjoyed as it was, like TOS, TNG, and DS9 and VOY. We shouldn't be offended by how ladies were portrayed. It was a different time! Don't be so nitpicky.

On the other hand is Kelvin and DSC, where nitpicking is required.

Fandom, you are confusing.
 
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