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Paramount Puts Open Script Submission Policy On Hold For ENTERPRISE |
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21:19:03 on July 23 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
TrekWeb has received word from the 'Star Trek' offices that indeed the long-coveted open submission policy for unsolicited scripts has been suspended indefinitely with regard to the new 'Star Trek' series, ENTERPRISE. For legal reasons -- many of the same for which no other show has ever exercised such a policy -- have finally forced Paramount to take this action.
The practice had been in operation since the days of TNG and many former 'Trek' writers including Ronald D. Moore and Mike Sussman, among others, got their starts with the franchise from pitch sessions stemming from the policy, which allowed individuals to submit up to two scripts without procuring the services of an agent.
While there is a potentiality that the suspension may be lifted at some point in the future, fans aspiring to submit ENTERPRISE scripts at this time will only receive their work returned to them, un-opened, and un-read. |
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If you are in the UK...
By Matty
() at 13:05:44 on July 24
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...it doesn't matter... I got this from SKY ONE today...
Thank you for your recent e-mail.
Sky One have no information at present regarding the new series 'Star Trek
Enterprise.
Margaret Tannock
Viewer Relations
Informative - NO : Helpful - NO : Enterprise on our screens in the UK anytime soon - Probably NO
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Open Submission Policy
By falcon
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I assume that this policy doesn't apply to agency-represented writers who have already pitched previous incarnation(s) of Trek, or was anything said about that?
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By The Emissary
(B_Sisko@startrekmail.com) at 23:35:43 on July 23
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I knew when the writers guild settled the strike that the open script policy would be one of the things to go. This maybe the legal issue that article talks about.
It's kind of sad when you think of how many writers got there start writting for tos/tng/ds9 and maybe voyager to some extent.
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Ahhh SH--!!!
By Brikar
() at 21:26:39 on July 23
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Y'know... Every day I wish more and more that I'd been older during DS9's run. They'd better lift that suspension. As much as I dislike the "Enterprise" premise, I would really have loved to try getting a pitch session with those guys. More proof that Berman and Co. don't care about us.
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You will be watching ENTERPRISE because...
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