OT: Totally P!ssed off at UPN

[Atrocities]

Based on the success of the KOTOR games. Should be interesting. I also read many years ago that they want to do a series on the post ROTJ era. Which will they do if they do one. Randallw the rumors are very very very old. It would be nice, I guess.

[Aris_Sung]

Is it going to be an animated show?

Set when? After clone wars?

[Atrocities]

Scott Bakula: Well, I'm disappointed, and everyone involved with the show is disappointed. Obviously we're all very emotionally attached to the show and we're all having a great time making the show. So you would like that kind of a situation to continue.

Unfortunately we don't fit into UPN's business plan and really haven't for the last two and a half years. So that's a situation that's out of our control and ultimately has no reflection on our show or the quality of our show. Or the commmitment of all of our fans.

It's hard not to take it personally, but in the end we got one more season than UPN wanted to give us, thanks to Garry Hart [President, Paramount Television Production], so we feel lucky about that.

Proof positive about UPN's dogma. They are totally focused in one direction, low rent, and well Star Trek was simply too pricy.

God I Hat UPN.

[Aris_Sung]

After reading Scott Bakula's statement, I agree with you Atrocities.
Now, that it's getting rid of Enterprise, I guess UPN really is now a Useless Programming Network.

[Atrocities]

From the chat with Scott Bakula Link

Michiel: Is there anything we can do to save Star Trek: Enterprise from ending?

SB: I don't have a clear answer for that. Obviously we want everyone to tune in and watch the last shows because we're extremely proud of them and we're anxious to share them with the fans. It would be a disappointment if there was a dropoff in viewership because of the cancellation. But the reality is, as I see it, we're a little bit like a ship in a storm with no safe harbor. There really are no interested executives left at Paramount or UPN or CBS who would be willing to fight for the show. Everyone at Paramount who had history with the franchise is gone. So I wouldn't even know who to tell you to complain to, because there's not anyone who really is interested. We've fallen between the cracks in the changing of the guard.

I can not say it enough.. WTF happened? Yuppie punk dumbasses have been given the reigns of a franchise twice thir average age and they are pissing it away for fear factor and Survivor reality shows. I am sickened to my core. So this is how it ends. The mighty Star Trek franchised ended because the no one is left to stop it from slipping through the cracks. This is what I would call a nitemare.

Musings:
God am I dead? Have I slipped from life into this purgatory of hell where everything seems wrong. A warped anti-reality where ones worst fears are realized? God what has happened to my universe?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Well, I'm not God, but I think I can safely say that there's good in anything.

Better the series be dead than in the hands of those who don't care about it.

[Atrocities]

Good point there Narf. But I cannot help but think about JAG and how well that turned out for them.

Like he said, most of the new bread are focused on reality tv to take notice of the jewels that they do have. I never thought I would see the day when CBS and UPN were considered the same.

[Aris_Sung]

Although, one good thing is that Enterprise is now in syndication. So we can all watch the previous episodes and forget all our gripes...for a little while.
That and Enterprise is coming out on DVD for those who have money to buy it.

[Randallw]

Syndication huh, They've had 98 episodes haven't they?. I saw an episode of Monk which said they get syndication after 100 episodes.

[Captain Kwok]

Syndication can occur after any number of episodes. It's the series owners that decide.