Design the Next Enterprise

[Dac]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Okay. But why can't it just be the Akira Class?"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[Mojomoe]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "No."
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[sojourner]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "I think they misunderstood 'F'"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[Dac]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Thank you for contacting CBS. If you would like to report a technical fault, please press 1. If you would like to complain about a show, please press 2. If you would like to complain about a commercial, please press 3. If you would like to talk to a representative of CBS, please stay on the line.
Cryptic: (dies inside)
CBS: "Sorry, our operating center is now closed. Please call back between the hours of 9am and 5pm."
Cryptic: "ITS 11AM!?!"

 

[Mojomoe]

Let's keep this going, this is relieving some of my anxiety.

 

[Skywalker]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "We're a little confused. Why do they all look like flying saucers with cigars glued to the sides?"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[sojourner]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "WOW! These are grea... Wait, contest?"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[erifah]

...so perhaps there was an entry they had in mind and they didn't see it.

Mine, probably.

 

[LordSarvain]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "To paraphrase your Dr. Spock, the force isn't strong with any of these"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[Vektor]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Never mind that. Have you seen how desperate these people on TrekBBS are getting? This is hilarious!"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[erifah]

?.. the fine print does give them the ability to dissolve the contest without a winner should a resolution not be reached. Scary thought.

Oh, I don't know... I've been working on MY design since the contest entry deadline passed, learning how to use the drawing tools, taking my time to think through what I really wanted to accomplish, and it's much improved from the hopeless pile o' junk I turned in... I almost yearn for a second bite at the apple!

 

[erifah]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon."
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[Hennessy Badger]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Not really. But do you know what is awesome? I make more in a day than you do in an entire year. I'm going to take a long lunch."
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[erifah]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "We're moving in a new direction. Corporate wants to capture the 5-11 Saturday morning demographic. Got anything that will go nicely on a cereal box?
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[erifah]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "We're re-tooling the project as a new series starring Charlie Sheen. Awesome ain't awesome enough! Gotta be winning, with Who Mourns For Adonis DNA, duh."
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[Titan Designer]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "You know if we work this right we will have enough designs to make it all the way to the Enterprise 1701-Z"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

Not to detract from the catharsis, but I can kind of sympathize with CBS.

They don't have a great track record for satisfying fan expectations lately. If this is going to be canon, really canon, forever, then they won't get another shot at it. This is their only chance to select an F that will add value to the franchise rather than subtract it.

What's more, they might not really feel comfortable with the responsibility. They don't necessarily know what the fans want, but they can't really admit that, even to each other.

Imagine for a moment that you had to pick the next Enterprise, not your favorite, but one that would make everyone happy and thereby improve the worth of your assets, and those of your affiliates. That's your job. It's your livelihood. Feel a bit of pressure? Now add an expired deadline, and a convoluted hierarchy of interested parties on opposite sides of the continent.

So I'm gonna cut CBS some slack. I've waited this long, it won't kill me to wait a little longer. After all, this is the one time in our lives we can really enjoy this level of hope. That it comes with an equal measure of uncertainty is the price any competitor must pay when reaching for a dream.

That being said...

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Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Where is the 'Picard's head' one?"
Cryptic: (dies inside)
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[edit]
I actually can't find the Picard's head anymore. It's page is broken, so it must have finally gotten pruned. Makes me a little sad.

 

[backstept]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Hmm . . . needs more sparkles."
Cryptic: (dies inside)
CBS: "And angsty teenagers."




Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Which CSI show are these for?"
Cryptic: (dies inside)

 

[Belisarius]

Cryptic: "These 25 are awesome."
CBS: "Who are you, again?"
Cryptic: (dies inside)


~Belisarius

 

[lennier1]

CBS and Cryptic have to settle their differences eventually... though the fine print does give them the ability to dissolve the contest without a winner should a resolution not be reached. Scary thought.

For a second installment of the contest with an even worse submission system?