Can u think of a stunt which would've doubled the ratings?

[Guy Gardener]

Taking into account the budget mind you, lets not not think nude Clooney couldn't have saved the day, because George and his package could have delivered large, but the Killer Bs wouldn't have had the money for his sort of star power, even fully dressed and then there was the FCC to consider babbling on about how network TV was no place for penises...

Of course Voyagers ratings were mostly wavering between 3 and 4 by the end, which is inconsiderable compared to the whopping 17 and a smidge All Good Things scored, so really it's not inconceivable to suggest that it was possible to stunt a quintuppling or sextuppling of Voyagers worst ratings if they could come up with a damn good idea.

This is interesting.

 

[Gary7]

Seven of Nine looks to have helped spike the ratings a little... but it didn't last. I don't think there's anything that could have been done to turn the series around. Once you start losing viewers, it's very, very hard to bring them back. Plus, I suspect a lot of it was also due to the times... other genres were becoming more attractive to the general public. Look at the consistent downward trend from DS9 through to ENT. The curve average is a slow and steady decay. Star Trek on TV lost popularity for a variety of reasons.

I'd be very curious to see how strong DVD sales have been for each of the series.

 

[The_Baroness]

there is nothing that can't be improved with monkeys.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

there is nothing that can't be improved with monkeys.

Been there, done that in "Resolutions".

 

[Skywalker]

Putting it on a real network might have helped.

 

[od0_ital]

Full frontal Seven of Nine nudity.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Converting the series into a musical.

 

[Robert D. Robot]

Puppets!

 

[AuntKate]

Putting it on a real network might have helped.

QFT. Or, failing that, they could have put it out for syndication.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Full frontal Seven of Nine nudity.

The full bacl was already more than I could handle.

What about Monkey Puppets?

Wizard of Oz had Flying Monkeys?

That would have made a brill holodeck episode, especially if they tried to splice it in with the Judy garland version , but there was a glitch and elements from "The Wizz" (Dianna Ross as Dorothy/Michael Jackson as the lion) kept filtering through.

 

[starlitegirl]

I think that given it was on UPN, which to this day as CW still doesn't always command the largest audience (even for it's MOST SUCCESSFUL shows) I think there wasn't much they could do. Now, scifi has a much better chance, but even Enterprise faced challenges, though I don't know what network or time it was on since I only first watched it on DVD years after it cancelled.

I think Trek is by nature going to not have a large audience on TV though it can hold well enough at the box office depending on who is in the movie and who has done the movie and how mainstream the movie has gone. First Contact and JJ Abrams version were far more mainstream and did very well. I don't know about the others.

What saves Trek is that those of us that are Trekkies are fairly devout. I didn't watch ENT because the prequel idea was not appealing, and at the time, the beauty of it would have been lost on me. Netflix will be getting streaming viewers just for Trek. Given how bad some of the ratings were, I think we're lucky they gave the shows the time they did.

 

[7ofJackson]

Mirror episodes where the Borg were good. Voyager is the only series without mirror episodes, isn't it?

 

[starlitegirl]

Mirror episodes where the Borg were good. Voyager is the only series without mirror episodes, isn't it?

I wish we could travel back in time and stick that idea in someone's head. That would have been an awesome 2 episodes!

 

[creek_chub]

Mirror episodes where the Borg were good. Voyager is the only series without mirror episodes, isn't it?

That's actually a really intriguing idea. Too bad no one thought of that back then. I wonder if there's any fanfic out there that approaches this concept?

 

[starlitegirl]

Mirror episodes where the Borg were good. Voyager is the only series without mirror episodes, isn't it?

That's actually a really intriguing idea. Too bad no one thought of that back then. I wonder if there's any fanfic out there that approaches this concept?

I'm kinda sad now because I really want to see that idea in a show or movie. Borg good. Everyone else bad. And people searching for Borg ships so they could be assimilated!

 

[Fang66]

Puppets!

I think you meant Muppets.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Putting it on a real network might have helped.

QFT. Or, failing that, they could have put it out for syndication.

Or, failing even that, they could have gotten better writers.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

An animated segment in the style of Wile E. Coyote where Tuvok tries to kill Neelix.

 

[Fang66]

A segment where Tuvok kills Neelix.

FTFY

 

[Gary7]

Funny about the "good Borg". I can just see it... they're still a collective, but they are super generous, giving technology to anybody and everybody. The trouble is, they give it to the bad guys too.