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Mar 21, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Norway
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Mar 28, 2003: STAR TREK NEMESIS debuts in Sweden
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TV Guide's Robins Report today focuses on the ratings woes of ENTERPRISE network UPN, on the heels of the network's 19 percent season-to-date ratings decline. ENTERPRISE is down in viewership 42 percent and BUFFY is down 25 percent on the year ago period. Last week's first-run presentation of the TREK series, "Vanishing Point," scored a series-low 2.5 final rating the day before Thanksgiving--a typically poor performing night for television (more ratings info on last week will be available tomorrow).
"Enterprise started out strong," says Stacey Lynn Koerner, senior vice president and director of broadcast research at Initiative Media, a media-buying firm. "But this season it seems lost in space."
UPN Network programming executive Dawn Ostroff says of ENTERPRISE, "We've been working on the show. It's getting sexier. We're exploring relationships more and pushing the dramatic elements of the show. You'll see a lot more sides to the characters."
Ostroff also revealed to TV Guide that the network hopes to capitalize on ENTERPRISE trailers placed before the theatrical release of STAR TREK NEMESIS next Friday.
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I think Paramount is in denial
By cooper2000
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if they think rebbing up the sex and action quotiant is going to improve their ratings over good scripts, they are obviously in la laa land.
We want something to talk about and interest us. If I want to be titilated, I will go get a porno magazine. If I want action, I go rent an Arnold Movie.
Give us "Trek" which is about "People".
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By Cyrus
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In an article about November sweeps in the "Advertising Age" magazine, Dawn Ostroff used different words to describe ENT changes. She said that the show is being retooled to add more action and humor.
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HARDCORE NUDITY!
By X-Drone1701
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I think we should just have the entire crew go about their business wearing ONLY hats!
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I can see it now
By DarthSpock
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Next on a very special Enterprise... the crew comes across a pod floating in space with a frozen human beings. One man and 42 blondes. Phlox brings them all back to life only to discover that it is Hugh heffner and his girlfriends.
Very sexy...
I don't care if it's sexy... if it's funny, if it's dramatic... whatever. I just want GOOD.
making the show 'sexier' is a gimic. If there are some quality love stories coming up, great then let it roll, but it should not be your goal. Quality should be your goal. ENT is a mess
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Show is REALLY good right now
By Blok_Narpin
(philly_guy_pa@yahoo.com.yahoo.com) at 11:14:30 on December 04 2002
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I can't imagine why rating would be DECLINING. I would think they would be on the rise. The show is getting better with each passing week. This season has been terrific so far, except for Dead Stop and Maurauders.
Shockwave II, Carbon Creek, Minefield, Night in SIckbay, and especially The Seventh have all be strong shows.
Maybe it is a lack of promotion. Hopefully the trailers on Nemesis will help.
If this is truly the last season of Buffy the Vampire SLayer, then here is an idea for Rick and Brannon: Hire Jane Espenson onto the Enterprise writing staff for season three. If Buffy ends this year she'll be looking for work and I think Enterprise should grab her and grab her QUICK.
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Obvious Problem, Easy Fix
By Edzo
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I can sum up ENTERPRISE's problem in five words: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. They don't get Star Trek. They have been writing nearly every episode but they're not *doing* anything with the series. There's no direction. VGR had the same problem … and by coincidence, the same guys were in charge.
Bakula is a problem, too, but since Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks each took about two full seasons to hit their stride (maybe three for Brooks), I'm willing to give Bakula more time.
Here's how to fix ENTERPRISE: Berman and Braga need to stop writing, period. They need to hire people of vision who can use their de facto creativity to give the show some direction. They need to hire Ira Steven Behr and the guys from DS9 (Ron Moore, Rene Echevarria, Robert Hewitt Wolfe). Two words: slam dunk. Fans will love ENTERPRISE again.
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Sexier just means...
By Hbasm
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Take it easy guys.. Sorry if this word "sexier" upsets you, but to native english speaking people (I'm told) this has nothing to do with sex. It just means the show will become more attractive to the audience. It doesn't say how, and doesn't necessarely have anything to do with women.
The man said it's going to be more interesting by exploring more sides of the characters. That's good news, isn't it? Assuming they DO it, of course.. :o)
If you turn your back on Enterprise, you turn your back on Star Trek. If you want more texture in the stories, then pay more attention to them, cause there's lots of interesting stuff already.
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sexy, man!
By Sim
(sebian@simpathy.de) at 08:21:51 on December 04 2002
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At first, I want to state that I like Enterprise.
After Voyager had nearly ruined the entire franchise by a most cheap and childish produced and concipated show, this new series had a great prominsing starting.
BUT:
The series remaines far under it's potential up to now.
Ok, they had a great character development what was just right for the first half of the first season and what is good for a series when it's done from time to time, but there has to be MORE:
Can you remember a single episode with a good or even original sf-story? There was none. Just character play.
(An nice exception was last week's 'Vanishing Point', with the disadvantage that it wasn't original at all as the story is almost that of TNG's 'The Next Phase'.)
Hey, I thought the crew is very excited to be the first humans that far in space - but why was there everything lost about this after "Silent Enemy"?
From then on, they had just forehead-aliens that are that much boring even the crew is not interested in them.
Everything became that much routine as if this was any other Trek series.
The concept was forgetten as fast as the Maquis-concept in Voyager.
What about the possibility to show the forming of the federation? NOTHING yet.
When will you guys just begin to LEARN out of your mistakes?!
So we have a sexy show that doesn's run well. So what do we do? Make it MORE sexy.
Yeah, right. If A doesn't work, don't take a little bit of B, no, just MORE A will work.
Or maybe they should try to learn of their successes:
TNG was the most succesful ST show. Why don't you even TRY to ask WHY that was, hm?
Because Picard's muscles were SOOOO sexy? Yep.
Because doctor Crusher always ran along the ship in bikini? Yep.
Because they had so much character play that there was no time for good sf-stories? Yep.
Because they had a Captain who consequently ignored every ethics and bullied around? Yep.
Because the crew behave like thoughtless children, and not like grown up, enlightened people? Yep.
Maybe your tv consumers are not that much dumb than you think and WON'T watch a show just because it's "sexy".
I wouldn't say that was NO factor, but at least it's OBVIOUSLY not the most important.
Just because of sexyness wou could watch any other show - or directly take blue movies.
At least, there is still time enough to use Enterprise's potential.
Just DO IT!
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I can't believe I'm reading this
By DeQueue
(cloudcity1020@hotmail.com) at 05:24:39 on December 04 2002
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UPN Network programming executive Dawn Ostroff says of ENTERPRISE, "We've been working on the show. It's getting sexier."
It's getting sexier??? That's their answer? What the hell?
Is he saying this to purposely piss the fans off, or is he really that stupid?
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Enterprise is dead
By Alawi
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I am a Trekker. I love all Trek incarnations (DS9, TNG, Voyager, TOS) except ENTERPRISE.
I travel a lot and reside mainly in Asia so I cannot see ENTERPRISE regularly like you guys. So what I do is I buy the Pal tapes in England and watch them consecutively as they get released. I bought a large chunk of Season One.
This is the way I've watched most of DS9 and Voyager, buying or borrowing the Paramount tapes as they get released on the market. I have always looked forward to more episodes when I was watching DS9 (the best ST show since TNG in my opinion, it was dark, political, action-packed with a wonderful set of characters and chemistry and backstory). I also enjoyed VOYAGER very much, due to the premise of the show and the space battles and villains, although I loathed the technobabble.
With ENTERPRISE I watched BROKEN BOW and said "hmmm this might have potential" although I still wasn't comfortable with Bakula as Archer or the ship design or the fact that it took place eons before TOS. I watched a couple of episodes after that on tape.
Then the unexpected happened. A friend of mine was calling me from the the Virgin store in London asking me if I wanted the new ENTERPRISE tapes (I think these were late First Season episodes) and I told him "don't bother." I GAVE UP ON ENTERPRISE.
I have never given up on any Star Trek incarnation before. But ENTERPRISE is not really the kind of Star Trek I'm interested in watching. If the main character of the ship, the Captain, is uninteresting, the show is dead. He lacks the passion of Sisko, and the assertiveness of Kirk and the morality of Picard and Janeway's cerebral stoicism. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL ARCHER STANDS FOR.
I think this show was a misfire. ENTERPRISE is making life very very hard for UPN, even affecting advertising revenue that comes in.
I wish they had just either done a TOS-set show or Sulu and the Excelsior or a post-Voyager or DS show. Primitive technology and bland characters in space headed by a touchy-feely Captain. Great premise....
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NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
By Beamer
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If sex is the only thing that Paramount can think of to make a better trek, then please just get it over with...
...AND TAKE IT OFF THE AIR, NOW!
Let everyone go on to another 90210 dreamland and a few years from now, let some fresh blood with a true vision for sci-fi writing come in and tell the new stories that don't rely on how tight the female lead's clothing can get (or how much of it you can take off without getting censored).
Good grief...do they have that infantile of a decision making process? Sexier relationships and character building are TWO SEPERATE THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I better go take a cold shower.
Wait, one more thing…this advice is probably coming from the same geniuses that have driven the network into the ground this season…so why, why, WHY is ANYONE giving them further responsibility?
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
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doesn't sound good....
By Kirk Archer
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What a drastic and dramatic decline in ratings for Enterprise! While we can all speculate on the reasons for this, I think the reasons are many.
For one, UPN does not reach all the major U.S. markets. I think I read that something like only 75% of households are able to watch the network. As a result, the ability to gain more viewers for any of their programs are limited. That being said however, the numbers show that a large chunk of the viewers once held have disappeared.
Obviously the program isn't giving the fans what they want. While fans shouldn't dictate the content of a program, I don't think I'm going out on a limb here by saying what has already been said in numerous posts; and that is, the quality and content of Enterprise simply is not up to the caliber of a quality science fiction program.
What can be done to save the show? I don't think the decision to make it "sexier" is the answer. Unfortunately, I think that will only hasten its demise. Here are my suggestions as to what Viacom/Paramount could and should do to save Enterprise:
1) Get a quality writing staff! Get some professional writers to add a science-fiction element to the program, and pull Berman and Braga away from the typewriters. They need to do what TOS did, and get famed science fiction authors to send it treatments and story ideas.
2) Viacom owns CBS. Move the program to a major network, and let UPN slide into oblivion. This way Enterprise can at least reach the entire country.
3) RESPECT CONTINUITY! Stop violating what all the other Star Trek shows have previously established. The fans get discouraged when 35 years of canon get brushed aside like last nights leftovers. Discouraged fans end up giving up on the show.
4) Make Enterprise more cutting edge. Let us feel the awe of them really being out there "where no man has gone before." Make space a little more intimidating and challenging. Show us the crew being amazed at what they encounter. Give us some space walks to make adjustments and repairs to the ship. Show us the crew in engineering getting dirty.
5) We need to see more ALIEN aliens, not humanoids with forehead ridges. Even Star Wars, which I find juvenile and derivitive, surprised me in "The Clone Wars" with some interesting looking aliens. The Original Series even had things like the Horta, Gorn, that rock-creature thing with all the eyes that created Abe Lincoln (I forget what it was called). Give us aliens that are 8 feet tall, have four-eyes, something different than what we've had. This crew is in space, and they need to encounter something other than the norm. This will make the series more interesting, challenging and suspenseful.
6) I've said this before and I will say it again: someone needs to DIE now and then! We don't have to go back to the redshirt days and kill off a crewman every week, but with all the newness and unknowns "out there," having some deaths would provide some much-needed realism to the show.
7) Make the captain a real leader and hero type. He needs to be a little larger-than-life, a perfect example of which we had two weeks ago when T'Pol dragged Archer into the shower and got him somewhat sober enough to help pilot the ship save the day.
I know these are just one person's opinions. I continue to watch and will do so as long as Enterprise is on the air. I really like the characters and their development, with the surprising exception of Archer. I don't blame Scott Bakula as much as I do the writing staff. Enterprise can still be successful, but I feel time is quickly running out.
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ENT Getting Sexier?
By Rat Boy
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Didn't we all agree awhile ago that this was the first or second stop on the road to cancellation?
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