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USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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I fixed it for you
Well, I don't think that describes everyone
Well, I don't think that describes everyone
Certainly not EVERYONE, but it really only takes one or two.
Enterprise quickly admitted defeat on the edgelord "I'm not Star Trek!" front, shut the fuck up, did Star Trek until touchy touchy McMooves cancelled it for not lining his pockets enough.
Discovery is licking NCIS's boots so hard it'll need a cobbler fast than a mountain ranger.
I think you missed my point. I don't have a problem with what DSC is doing. I have a problem with people telling me to ignore stuff that I like.
Yeah, how dare a businessman kill off an investment that isn't making him any money!
Ahhh yes. Gotcha. Sorry if I misunderstood.
Although to be fair, Moonves killing off ENT was more than just the series not lining his pockets enough. Moonves along with other suits at UPN just plain no longer supported Star Trek as a television property and held their noses to give ENT a fourth and final season despite almost nobody in the corporate offices supporting its existence and long-term survival on the network's schedule. In retrospect Les Moonves turned out to be kind of an asshole anyways so his dismissive attitude towards both ENT and Star Trek in particular is just amplified all that more by what we now know about the man.
He was a dick for not supporting and then cancelling the series but he's also a dick for much bigger reasons. How he viewed and treated Star Trek was just the foundation for the man's unpopularity.
He was a dick for not supporting and then cancelling the series but he's also a dick for much bigger reasons. How he viewed and treated Star Trek was just the foundation for the man's unpopularity.
ENT got a fourth season only because there wasn’t enough episodes to sell it to syndication. It was purely a business move. And yeah, Moonves is a total creep, but he was also a businessman and was in the business of making money for CBS. I don’t hold it against him for cancelling ENT. As you said, there are far worse reasons to dislike the man.
Yeah, that's not how television production works. Why spend money on storage space for sets that would not be used again any time soon? Especially when there was no other Trek series in the pipeline.
^ To be fair, they did keep the TMP sets after that film wrapped, didn't they? They eventually became the TNG sets.
As far as Star Trek goes I tend to agree, but as far as best series in history, nah. At least genre-wise from the same time period The Twilight Zone beats it. But I get what you mean there.
That was 20+ years before, rules change. And I imagine it would have cost a fortune to store them until Discovery
This may get me stoned, but I'll say it: I think TZ gets too much credit. It's a great show, no question, but it is often revered as groundbreaking when really it's just a televised version of a whole genre of similar anthology shows that were a staple of old-time radio, from Suspense to Lights Out to Inner Sanctum (a personal favorite).
By this, I don't mean to diminish TZ so much as wish more people appreciated those old radio shows. They're easy to find online, if anyone wants to give them a try. Great for passing the time while traveling.
Hindsight is lovely but nothing was definite at the time, those sets could have been kept and recycled for future films. As was tradition.That was 20+ years before, rules change. And I imagine it would have cost a fortune to store them until Discovery
That was 20+ years before, rules change. And I imagine it would have cost a fortune to store them until Discovery
And since DSC is shot in Toronto, it would be extremely difficult (that is to say, impossible) to actually move all the sets up there. Certainly more expensive than building new sets from scratch or even going all-digital like BSG: Blood & Chrome.
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First they were used on TWOk and eye to T.V series, and then became TNG and then Voyager. So there was always something else coming down the line.
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