They're not gonna change my mind

[austin_dern]

I don't know ... the only thing the cancellation of Enterprise brings to me is a bit of regret that this is going to make life duller around rec.arts.startrek.tech, where the conversation is great but slows down when there's not new Trek material to go over. The liveliest ``rerun season'' conversation lately started from someone who heard the Next Generation Technical Manual says there are dolphins aboard Enterprise-D, and found that the most outrageously offensive idea ever. It's fun pointing out yeah, space dolphins might be stuck inside watery cages but the space humans are stuck inside airy cages, but that's not fun forever.

Partly I suppose that's because my Trek fanboyism reached a peak in the late 80s and early 90s, and since about the fifth season of Next Generation I haven't felt bad missing any of it. Also Enterprise felt like a prequel to the original series in about the same way Baby Looney Tunes feels like a prequel to A Wild Hare. (In today's show Baby Sylvester is mad because the arrival of Baby Pepe means Baby Lola and all don't think he's the cutest anymore and stop walking him in the carriage and all. Baby Sylvester discovers skunks, adorable as the babies are, grow up to stink, and he's ready to use this to destroy Baby Pepe -- but calls it off when Baby Pepe's first word besides mumbling ooh-la-la is ``Sylvester.'' Is that honestly worse than Captain Archer's Ferengi Folly Revue?)

Still, from reports they were finally getting organized. And I'll miss the Usenet talk. They should've let me design the show.

Trivia: The standard communicator weighed 200 grams and had a range of 12,000 kilometers. Source: Star Fleet Technical Manual, Franz Joseph. The Modern Trek folks probably screwed that up too.

Currently Reading: Giants Unleashed, Edited by Groff Conklin.

Comments

[dellway.livejournal.com]

It's not even a glorified mobile phone to them. Such is progress.

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see them do a prequel to Star Trek, shot using original style sets, special effects, props, writing, etc.

Use the original Enterprise, but with Captain April or Pike.

[buran.livejournal.com]

Why not use dolphins? Years of research has shown just how intelligent they are, and a specialized holodeck could give them a completely-appropriate habitat to live in and space to socialize with each other. What's so offensive about that? If they are treated humanely, I don't see a problem with it.

And if you read MY rant about this, you'll notice that I'm annoyed that the apparent reaction to anything finally improving after getting rid of crappy stories and writing that fans hated ... is to cancel it. WTF? When it's GETTING BETTER? I was actually starting to like it!

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Eek! I've not seen any of Baby Looney Tunes.. am I missing much? Still, it's rather nice to see Lola hasn't been made an unperson after all. Of course, if I could see more of any animated character, it'd be Sawyer, of Cats Don't Dance.. such a genuine, full personality. Such an underappreciated movie..

Of course, as we've seen from ratmm, a series' cancellation doesn't mean the newsgroup goes away. ^_^ (Hmm. What happened to that sci-fi pilot show Best Brains was (were?) working on a while back?)

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

very interesting thread and post... including the GQ stuffs! *slorp*