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Posted: 10:33:51 on June 14 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com

Speaking in a new article in Variety on the tradition for science fiction and genre television shows to be overlooked by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Emmy Award consideration, STAR TREK producer Rick Berman says he resigned hope long ago.

"I have outgrown expecting to get nominations in acting and writing and directing categories. It's just been so many years we've been overlooked," he told the trade.

The mag notes that since the premiere of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION in 1987, 22 seasons of STAR TREK have unfolded including some of the most accomplished actors on television -- Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Colm Meaney, and previous Emmy nominees Rene Auberjonois and Scott Bakula -- and yet the only creative nod the franchise has received was for Best Drama for TNG's final season. THE ORIGINAL SERIES scored two Best Drama noms and Leonard Nimoy was nominated twice for his acting. The only creative win for the franchise remains a 1975 Daytime Emmy for the short-lived ANIMATED SERIES.

"If Connor [Trinneer] were on any other freshman TV series right now, he would be the buzz of the trades in terms of getting a nomination," Berman says. "But he's on 'Star Trek,' and we're forever hopeful, but the history doesn't show he has much chance."

Brannon Braga also chimes in, saying "The year we were nominated for 'Next Generation,' it was wonderful to be acknowledged. You wonder if we took the bumpy (Klingon) foreheads off people, if 'Star Trek' would have gotten more nominations in the past."

The article also includes comments from BUFFY executive producer Marti Noxon, who says "I feel like sometimes there are things going on on (sci-fi) shows that are more exciting or more creative than what's on other shows. You feel like these awards are not really in tune with what people are getting excited about."

THE X-FILES managed to break through the Emmy drought for genre television, due in part to its ability to gather a broader audience and to ground its fiction in firmer scientific fact, says producer Frank Spotnitz.

"Part of the reason it could overcome the genre prejudice is that it attempted to not feel like a genre show," Spotnitz told Variety. "It worked very hard to make the sci-fi and horror elements seem plausible."

Science fiction writer David Gerrold, who wrote TOS's "The Trouble With Tribbles" and went on to pen several episodes of BABYLON 5, says genre television deserves more recognition.

"'Real drama' is about the human condition; it's about angst, anguish, suicide, incest. It's about people failing to put their lives together," says Gerrold. "Science fiction is about what do we build next. (It) gets into what is the nature of reality, what does it mean to be a human being. Those are answers you don't get in an ordinary story."

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