the ship..is sinking
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As I understand Terry's contract was only for six seasons.
I heard a dripping sound when VOY was airing. I saw water on the floor with Enterprise. I spotted the leak with INS. The leak erupted into a gusher with NEM.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
I realize that Terry left to play a bartender on Becker, however, even that just added water to the ship. I have yet to find out why she did leave the series. I have read where she really wanted to stay, but they wanted to kill someone off, and it was to be her. I have also read they they wanted her to stay but she wanted out to go onto Becker. They did not let Robert Beltran out of his contract, why would they let her out?
If indeed she wanted to stay, and they felt to need to kill off a main character, why replace her at all. I did like the Ezri character, however as Garek said "I knew the real Dax, and you're not her". Finally, if she wated to play bartender, mabey she should have resigned her commision and gotten a job at Quarks as a Dabo Girl
Resistance is Futile
Yep..and the confusion still remains after all these years. I thought they were all signed for seven years, but clearly they weren't. So either she left because she wanted to Decker, or she left because they wanted to kill her.....
Hmmmm..maybe if Avery would 'open up' these kinds of mysteries would be solved...
Rob
When DS9 was announced. And sure enough, the ratings for that show just slipped lower and lower week after week, year after year.
Several production people have told this version at conventions:
The entire main cast was campaigning to get a significant payrise for Season Seven, having made gains the previous year. Terry Farrell was their representative and supposedly they were all going to hold firm together. But she was getting a bit of a reputation as an activist and troublemaker. Paramount went to each other cast member separately and made them offers they couldn't refuse (more money, later starts, better trailers, etc). However, in the producers' discussions about how to handle any holdouts, storywise, they realised that a new Dax might be invigorating to the last season's scripts.
Now they had the upper hand. They offered Farrell a fraction of what she was asking for, and her agent said they'd rather leave, intending on holding firm for a better offer. Suddenly she realized everyone else's deals were finalized. She was out on her own, so she walked, taking up the chance to do the pilot for "Becker".
Typically the regular cast of any TV show is signed to a five-year contract, which locks in payments for the first five years. If the show goes to a sixth season, all contracts are up for renewal, and the agents get to haggle again on payments. Similarly, a seventh season might require more negotiations, if not covered by Season Six's contract.
She left because Paramount refused to match her agent's salary demand. Farrell was happy to stay on, but not at her same salary from Season Six.
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Can't remember where I read it, but I recall that career longevity was also an issue.
Actresses have a much smaller career window than male actors. They can only count on being cast in leading roles until their mid/late 30s (with the odd and obvious exception) before being relegated to "Mom" type supporting roles.
Put yourself in her shoes. Stick around for one more year of DS9, or leave and take a chance on another 5-7 years of steady work? I know what I would have done.
Can't remember where I read it, but I recall that career longevity was also an issue.
Actresses have a much smaller career window than male actors. They can only count on being cast in leading roles until their mid/late 30s (with the odd and obvious exception) before being relegated to "Mom" type supporting roles.
Put yourself in her shoes. Stick around for one more year of DS9, or leave and take a chance on another 5-7 years of steady work? I know what I would have done.
Well just to be nerdy, INS came out over 2 and half years before ENT started
Yeah, it's more the second one. The writing staff in particular was NOT happy with her having to go; I believe Ira Behr's words were that Jadzia's departure had "very little to do with good storytelling." She had a shot at starring in a sitcom and took it, and that's OK, but she's said at conventions that she regrets the decision...
Hmm, I'm not sure if ratings have much to do with anything. I mean the Original series was cancelled and ENT couldn't last as long as TNG/DS9/Voy.
I think VOY was the start though. When you have a whole new quadrant of the galaxy to explore and can't come up with any new ideas it's time to call it quits. Rather than trying to come up with something knew, Star Trek started to eat itself and became static.
It has little to do with the creative side of Trek. When ALL syndication ratings started to go down I thought ST was in trouble. This was happening in 1995. Now syndication has all but disappeared. I know that UPN was technically a network but it was really glorified syndication. The short American attention span had led to other venues, like cable, and so on.
RAMA
Wow, I never realized that it had become that complicated. Knowing that the Friends cast stuck together and got what they wanted, I wonder what would have happened if the DS-9 cast had stuck together also. I assume that Paramont would have had to giving into their demands. I for one was hoping that the entire cast could have at least started season 7. Knowing full well that a major character may have to be "killed off" at sometime during the season, espically since they were in the middle of a major conflict.
Off subject for a second, the safest place to have been on a Federation starship in that time period may just have been on Voyager??
Resistance is Futile
Off subject for a second, the safest place to have been on a Federation starship in that time period may just have been on Voyager??
Resistance is Futile
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Im not so sure if DS9's cast had any power...the ratings were going down. If they had gone for another year or two and had the actors demanded way more money, I bet the cast would have been trimmed and cheaper 'new comers' would have been brought in...
Rob
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