I figure he provided some funding, but didn't really have any influence over the shows.
Rod Roddenberry's Involvement
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He doesn't provide any funding. They're paying him so they have a 'Rodenberry' name in the credits.
Yes ask @Maurice
- The actual Producer producer sees the film project through from development to release. If a name in the opening credits of a U.S. film has p.g.a. after the name that's the person recognized as the said producer by the Producers Guild of America.
- The "line producer" is responsible for every line item in the budget.
- TV routinely gives producer credits to writers. The p.g.a. does not like this.
- Executive Producers usually brought something to the project (sometimes just lending their name to help get financing or whatever) but do typically do not do the work of an actual Producer.
I have a little more faith in Goldsman than many around here. I can't even call Transformers and Batman and Robin "bad" in the traditional sense. They are not smart movies, but they came out exactly as the filmmakers intended. It's not like they were trying to make "art" and it went wrong. Those are supposed to be lowest common denominator movies.
Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict both carried the Roddenberry name above the titles, and both lasted for over 100 episodes and were obviously direct competition for the Trek shows of that era.
So, yeah, they're leasing the name so Rod doesn't sell it to a rival space show.
I wanted to mention that I really enjoyed Trek Nation - Rod seemed very sincere. If any of our Dad's had created Trek, we would have thought it was corny when we were teens and would've tried to distance ourselves from it.
Can't imagine losing a parent at the age Rod was when Gene passed.
So, yeah, they're leasing the name so Rod doesn't sell it to a rival space show.
I wanted to mention that I really enjoyed Trek Nation - Rod seemed very sincere. If any of our Dad's had created Trek, we would have thought it was corny when we were teens and would've tried to distance ourselves from it.
Can't imagine losing a parent at the age Rod was when Gene passed.
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They weren't meaningful competition. It's doubtful that they drew a single viewer away from Paramount's shows, which is what "competition" is about.
Eh? The majority of their audiences were likely comprised of Trek fans.
Rarely does the local MLB team complain when a new AA club comes to town.
Nope.
Shallow endorsements are meaningless to me. Shoes either succeed or fail on their own.
Otherwise, TMP, and TNG Season 1 would be the top rated bestest Trek ever and TWOK would be panned.
Otherwise, TMP, and TNG Season 1 would be the top rated bestest Trek ever and TWOK would be panned.
If you're going to go there, you should be going with Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan.
A Roddenberry Endorsement doesn't mean much. If you only go by what his father approved of, that knocks out TWOK, TSFS, TFF, TUC, "Family", "Redemption", and probably some other Mid-TNG episodes. To say nothing about what he would've thought of anything made after he died.
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I did. Lol For some reason it didn't show up when I posted it. Humor...it is a difficult concept.
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