Say You Want a Revolution? Enterprise Fans trying to reinvent television

http://www.trekunited.com/ ^ | 2-14-2005

[FactsMatter]

That is why their is a engraving or model of the H.M.S Enterprise and the USN Aircraft Carrier in the captians ready room in every Star Trek set aboard the enterprise.

[Havoc]

Dang! Oh well.. guess I'll have to look into the new lady starbuck.. gotta get back on that horse, ya know ;)

[FactsMatter]

You might want to tell these people http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/everydaylife/nasm_enterprise.html because them seam to think it was. :)

"Enterprise is most definitely a unique machine, right down to the origin of its name. It was originally to be named Constitution, but viewers of the popular TV show "Star Trek" started a write-in campaign urging the White House to select the name Enterprise. It worked, and the crew of the hit show got a first hand look at the orbiter in California (+ View Photo: Browse | High Resolution ). "

[Route66]

This is a really different idea and it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

I think the Sci-Fi Channel should consider picking this show up from UPN as they did Stargate SG-1 from Showtime. In my opinion, they could use another actual premium Sci-Fi series as they seem a bit too heavy on horror and other content which is pretty low in quality. This series would bring its own audience and it's a good bet that they would be able to grow that audience as they did with the Stargate series. It seems like a natural fit.

[Havoc]

Missing an episode isn't the end of the world. I tape every episode and if I'm not home to do so, I have my ways .. lol.
I have every episode except the most recent one because I was out, and I'll have it soon. Can always count on a friend to put it on cd for me when I can't do it myself. Got 'em all recorded to VCD format till the DVDs come out.

[reasonmclucus]

UPN botched the scheduling early on. The first season they were smart and ran it just before reruns of Voyager(at least the local affiliate did). They got good ratings. Then they made the mistake of changing the time to an hour earlier and tried two other programs in its old time slot. Predictably the ratings went down as often happens when a network moves a program from a time slot in which it worked well.

[Mr. Silverback]

The problem is that they made the show where you had to see every episode in order to understand the plot. They didn't do many 'stand alone' episodes.

Yep. I came in partway on all three of the recent trek series--TNG, DS9, Voyager. I was able to get into the flow because the episodes stood alone for the most part. Enterprise? No go.

[Mr. Silverback]

Voyager (Instead of a manly/beautiful woman, how 'bout a man?)

If you think Kate Mulgrew is manly looking, you've never watched Throw Momma From the Train. Yowza.

[Augustsson]

Remember the Enterprise in TOS was a "Constitution" class Starship....

[MeekOneGOP]

He's dead, Jim.
(Click here or on the pic).

[MeekOneGOP]

I still recall watching the first runs of Star Trek in the 60's with my brother and Dad.

We never missed the weekly episode. It was great!

[eccentric]

Farscape owns Star Trek.

BABYLON 5 was the BEST!!!

[Freepertwo]

My opinion? Jim ain't dead. :-D Never will be! He was always my favorite character in any incarnation of Trek.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Jeffrey Combs usually brings an episode up a few notches.

Jeffrey Combs bump! I've liked him in just about everything he's done, even his few seconds long cameo in Cellar Dweller is cool. Long live Herbert West!

[KeyWest]

I do not think it is the HMS Enterprise but the USS Enterprise, since the first HMS Enterprise was not a frigate and the one in the CO's cabin is a frigate.

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3501.html

[Poohbah]

The first shuttle was an atmospheric flight test article named "Enterprise" courtesy of a letter-writing campaign by Trekkies.

[Redleg Duke]

The first shuttle, the glide test bird, which now is on display at the Aerospace Museum at Dulles, is named "Enterprise".

It was supposed to be retrofitted with engines and flown in space, but funding was lost and so now it is a static display.

[WillRain]

SDNet?

Getoutatown!

Wong's Wars Wankers would probably love socialism...

Um...well...sorry bout that.


Anyway, TNG was definatly laced with sciolistic tendencise, but DS9 wasn't that way, IMO.

Voyager? Neverhearofit! ;)

[WillRain]

No, not at all.

Season three, yes, definatly. It's a unit unto itself and a season long story...

but the first two season were ALL standalone, and this season - the best, IMO, has not carried any story over three episodes. So actually, if you've seen the last two, you know what's going on tonight.

[WillRain]

So, what do they do? They decide to axe-grind on Bush and Iraq!

In the Vulcan Arc?!

I didn't get that at all. It was structured around the protestand reformation...Manny Coto said as much in interviews. I won't argue whether there was a throwaway line that implied that, but the whole story had zip to do with Bush/Iraq.

I won't defend the bottle episodes, and it's true that the Augments arc was just an action story (but then so was the Khan episode of TOS for that matter) so if that's not your bag fine, but it was stil wel executed. And i would not call it a "reset" anymore than any other "hero saves the day" fiction because a reset implies lack of consiquences and this story had consiquences (as will be seen in the upcoming 2-parter).

but I can't see how the last two arcs haven't been character building as well as great stories.

different strokes I guess.