He's dead, Jim.
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Posted on 02/16/2005 10:29:59 PM PST by WillRain
Star Trek has been with us in one form or another for 39 years now. What started as just another TV show that very nearly never made it to air flourished into a media phenomenon that spanned the globe and five different decades, spawning hundreds of television episodes, a string of movies, and creating the world's biggest fan club.
This show – this legend – has shaped the world. The very first space shuttle was named in honour of the show; even now, astronauts speak fondly of the show that inspired them to go out into space and has continued to inspire them to further humanity's progress. Engineering faculties around your country are full of students who wanted to be the miracle-working engineers they saw on the show.
Scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs, celebrities, humanitarians, astronauts- these people and many more are part of the generations that were inspired by a show that dared to portray a better humanity. A better future. A better understanding of our world and acceptance of those around us. On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of this amazing social and cultural phenomenon, its latest outing – Enterprise has been cut short, for lack of perceived interest.
Legends never die.
Now we invite everyone here and the world around to pick up the gauntlet thrown down to us by the people with the power to make the show happen. For every child that grew up to be somebody special because of Star Trek. For every pessimist that grew to think the future might be a wondrous and brilliant destiny rather than a dismal and dark demise. For the knowledge that Star Trek is relevant to our society today and that the values it teaches have been transforming the heart of our world culture for years now.
I want you to sit down in front of your TV this October. To hear the rising sounds of instruments beginning to play in harmony. To see the vibrant colors of scenery fade into life. I want you all to see Enterprise's fifth season explode on to your TV screens in a magnificent blaze of sound and passion signifying everything. And I want you to think: I made this possible. I had a hand in creating this. I helped give birth to this next chapter in the most entertaining and incredible saga ever told.
And next October, I want you to know that around the world, millions of people who hold the same ideals as you, who love the show as you do, are sitting in unison forged by that same bond. Welcome to TrekUnited.com.
We've got a show to save. Let's do it!
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.
Dang! Oh well.. guess I'll have to look into the new lady starbuck.. gotta get back on that horse, ya know ;)
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 ). "
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.
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.
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.
If you think Kate Mulgrew is manly looking, you've never watched Throw Momma From the Train. Yowza.
Remember the Enterprise in TOS was a "Constitution" class Starship....
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!
BABYLON 5 was the BEST!!!
My opinion? Jim ain't dead. :-D Never will be! He was always my favorite character in any incarnation of Trek.
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
The first shuttle was an atmospheric flight test article named "Enterprise" courtesy of a letter-writing campaign by Trekkies.
It was supposed to be retrofitted with engines and flown in space, but funding was lost and so now it is a static display.
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! ;)
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.
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.
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