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By: cooper2000 (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:09:15 on Jan 26, 2006

and reading the Berman interview did it.
This guy is just an idiot and if Paramount has any sense He is done with Trek.
I'm guessing offers arent piling in for him or Braga.
Go home Berman, clean out your offic and give us a break from your crap product.

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Please get this guy out of here. | Report this post to moderator
By: Raphael143 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 13:10:01 on Jan 24, 2006

His arrogance is so over-the-top, it's not even funny anymore. They should never put Berman and Trek in the same sentence ever, ever again.

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Why is this guy still associated with Star Trek? Beam Berman Out!

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By: Alberon (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:45:45 on Jan 23, 2006

Trust me, Rick, you are done with Star Trek. Whether you want to be or not, you are done with it.

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What a total door knob! | Report this post to moderator
By: OV-101 (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:14:11 on Jan 22, 2006

He says he only watched a third of trek and he calls himself a "fan". That pretty much puts the final nail in any respect I had for the man. What an idiot! Star Trek may not be totally dead but I think it needs an excellent doctor to get it out of coma

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He only watched 1/3 of TOS? | Report this post to moderator
By: NEXUS (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:07:40 on Jan 21, 2006

No wonder the franchise is dead.

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No Offense But . . . | Report this post to moderator
By: Snails (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:53:35 on Jan 21, 2006

Anyone who is in charge of Star Trek (on any level whatsoever) should take the time to watch all of:

TOS
TNG
DS9
VOY
ENT

and the movies.

If they are so busy they can't BOTHER to watch all of those, BEFORE deciding what type of "programming" to put on the air, then I have nothing but contempt for them and I personally, IN MY OPINION, think they are lazy . . .

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Anyone else smell that? | Report this post to moderator
By: Sabotman (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:48:48 on Jan 21, 2006

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Asked about how much influence he feels THE ORIGINAL SERIES has had on him over the years, he said "I was a fan of THE ORIGINAL SERIES in that I had watched a number of episodes, maybe a third of them, and I'd enjoyed them. I didn't closely follow it.

Please, just put the shovel down.

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I watched much more of the original show than people think, though. If we were doing VOYAGER or whatever show and a question of continuity came up, we very often would find ourselves in the cutting room, screening a video or DVD of one of the original episodes.

Really, I actually watched Voyager & you couldn't keep your own continuity right, forget TOS (he must be refering to that Sulu ep, but he missed more than he got!)

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"A lot of fans like to berate me with the idea that I don't care about the continuity of the series, but it was something that I in fact cared greatly about, and it was something we always tried not to hurt."

Seriously where are the guys w/ the white jackets? Buddy you went out of your way to make sure continuity was a bad word! Another first Vulcan, female Pon Fars, wrong warp scale, races we never heard of or saw again, got the ship design right the first time (who remembers the phrase "pioneering"?)....

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By: ludwig (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:34:57 on Jan 21, 2006

Why is everyone making an "internet project," out to be such a glorious idea? I hope that was some kind of misunderstanding.

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By: StillKirok (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:44:58 on Jan 20, 2006

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Give me a break. Most people don't give a shit who is in charge. They just want Star Trek. This ain't a religion and this ain't a political party. As far as I am concerned they could have bloody Oprah Winfrey in charge of the francise. IT DOESN'T MATTER. It's attitudes like this that killed Star Trek in the first place.

WRONG. It's TERRIBLE WRITING that killed Trek. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga killed Trek. Not people like me. People like me have standards. We actually expect continuity to be followed, and good stories to be told. Berman and Braga liked boobs and bombs, and disrespected the franchise. They have NO ABILITY WHATSOEVER, and there is NO CHANCE that they can produce anything good. 12 years of garbage proved that.

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On the contrary... it's attitudes of people who will produce and/or swallow any 'Trek, regardless of quality, that killed (more like damaged) the Franchise.

And it's quotes like that which shows why this guy is the hero of Canton.


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You gotta admit Rick knows more about Star Trek than she does.

Rick knows NOTHING about Star Trek--unless you mean producing bad Star Trek.

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He has worked intensely with all the shows since TNG

And that intense work stunk. He killed a billion dollar franchise.


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and done his best to protect Roddenberrys vision.

How? By ignoring it completely? By bastardizing it?

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I say, Berman is more concerned with the product - Star Trek - than the money.

Did you even watch Star Trek in the last 10 years?

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Otherwise he could have easily turned it upside down. He didn't.

You never saw Enterprise, Voyager, Insurrection, or Generations.




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Shatners comments are heartwarming, but can they be carried out? With all due respect to the man, his age needs to be considered. And when he is gone, and Berman's contract expires, who is left to decide the fate of Star Trek? Leslie Moonves? Who will make his decision strictly business.

Even dead, Shatner could outproduce Berman.

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Why is the Magazine even interviewing him anymore?! (duh) | Report this post to moderator
By: The Hero of Canton, the Man They Call: Lemmiwinks (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:57:11 on Jan 20, 2006

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All that Brannon said was that he's on another project and he's not doing STAR TREK right now, and he thinks if someone asked him tomorrow to do STAR TREK again he's probably say the time wasn't right, but that he wouldn't rule it out.

Don't you threaten us Berman...

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As for myself, I have no idea if I'm done with STAR TREK. Since there are no STAR TREK projects in television even being discussed right now and since the idea of the next STAR TREK movie is far away, or does not seem to be imminent, for me to say 'I'm done with STAR TREK' isn't something I'm going to say. I can't make any kind of definitive statement on that.

I honestly don't think it's your decision any longer.

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I was a fan of THE ORIGINAL SERIES in that I had watched a number of episodes, maybe a third of them, and I'd enjoyed them. I didn't closely follow it.

Thanks for the update Captain Obvious.

I'd like to think that I don't usually post little rants like this, but I've been watching VOY on DVD lately, and this bozo and Braga are all over the special features. (God, I miss Ira Behr) I give Braga credit for admitting on the Season 2 bonus feature segment that VOY: Threshold was a huge mistake, but mainly I just want to put an axe through the television each time one of their snide visages talks about the wonderful things they did for the Franchise.

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By: Schpock (Odo's file, contact) @ 04:47:38 on Jan 20, 2006

I was just over at slashdot where there is an article about George Takei reprising his role of Sulu for Star Trek:New Voyages, and it dawned on me that the internet project that Braga is involving himself in could be somehow connected to the New Voyages fan series.

The only other apparently logical internet project that I can think of is TrekUnited...

Egad!

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By: Hbasm (Odo's file, contact) @ 03:27:59 on Jan 20, 2006

It seems that Star Trek won't be back tomorrow. But when it returns, we need men like Rick Berman to set the style and tone of the show, and give it a sense of familiarity. We also need new people for that creative sparkle and modern touch. Cooperation is beneficial and allows for mixing old and new.

Broadcasting a show worldwide over the internet is still many years away. Not due to technical obstacles but due to politics. But its only appropiate if Star Trek gets to be the first show to benefit from it. (Assuming this is what Rick Berman was talking about. It could be something else)

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By: Schpock (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:33:37 on Jan 20, 2006

If either Berman or Braga return to Star Trek, I think a huge portion of the people who have been hanging on and waiting for a "new" Star Trek will simply give up on the franchise completely. And if they create another lame attempt at interpreting Star Trek and it sucks, then Star Trek will be hurt as a franchise for a very long time. It's a lose-lose situation.

They've had their chance and they blew it...royally.

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