STAR TREK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!!!!
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This is not a joke. Star Trek has been canceled.
Those darn network executives didn't appreciate it. If I were in charge of Paramount I would start my own network.
Too bad the show only lasted 3 seasons. Now, with less than 100 episodes, it doesn't have much of a chance in syndication.
Those darn network executives didn't appreciate it. If I were in charge of Paramount I would start my own network.Too bad the show only lasted 3 seasons. Now, with less than 100 episodes, it doesn't have much of a chance in syndication.
It was 276. Even with a student deferment, it is hard to forget.
In 20 years, Dude, you'll be killed by a pack of dogs you thought you saw.
Who was around at the time in the US and what did they think?
I wouldn't be around for another ten years after cancellation and my g/f was only eight at the time. I hadn't enough of TOS reruns when TNG started in the UK, so I've no idea what it was like at the time.
I wouldn't be around for another ten years after cancellation and my g/f was only eight at the time. I hadn't enough of TOS reruns when TNG started in the UK, so I've no idea what it was like at the time.
You knew it was coming. The great push for renewal was after season 2. When Star Trek came back and the third season wasn't nearly as good, at least I saw cancellation coming and wasn't surprised when it happened. I'd been down exactly this path of deteriorationg stories leading to cancellation with Lost In Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
I made a joke about it earlier, but I was much more pissed and surprised that The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour had been cancelled. That was censorship by the suits at CBS. I was 16 and becoming politically aware. Vietnam was all too real (draft #318 two years later, Spider). Hell, 1968, easily the most tumultuous shock to the United States' psyche since the Great Depression, had just happened. Everything was upside down. Riots were in the news daily. Our political leaders were being shot.
Frankly, the cancellation of Star Trek, while fun to talk about here, wasn't that big a deal.
But back then it was just another TV show. The canonization of Star Trek didn't happen for another 10, maybe 15, years.
I made a joke about it earlier, but I was much more pissed and surprised that The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour had been cancelled. That was censorship by the suits at CBS. I was 16 and becoming politically aware. Vietnam was all too real (draft #318 two years later, Spider). Hell, 1968, easily the most tumultuous shock to the United States' psyche since the Great Depression, had just happened. Everything was upside down. Riots were in the news daily. Our political leaders were being shot.
Frankly, the cancellation of Star Trek, while fun to talk about here, wasn't that big a deal.
But back then it was just another TV show. The canonization of Star Trek didn't happen for another 10, maybe 15, years.
6th day of XMe$$ said:
klingongoat said:
Ed's gone????
Well at least the Beatles are still together.
I hear their new HELP! album is the shiz-nit.
Yeah, the US was certainly in a bad state of mind back then with kids turning on their parents and the country and noone was making an attempt to understand what they were trying to say. Ofcourse, some of what they were trying to say was utter nonsense, but that's besides the point.
I missed a lot of the first half of season three because of being in the high school band and having to march in the Friday night games. But when I picked it back up after football season, it just wasn't very good. I didn't turn into a die hard Star Trek fan until the mid 70s when I was living on my own and had my own TV. Star Trek was on several times a week in sydication back then.
I think the show lost its way when they got Dick Martin and Dan Rowan to do those cameos.
