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Fantasy Islands
By TRexx

Quote from cdydatzigs:
The fact of the matter is, Enterprise was going to have low ratings on UPN no matter what the stories and scripts were.


That "fact" might apply to wishful thinking, but UPN gave the premiere episode almost 13-million willing viewers. All ENT had to do was hang on to a respectable chunk of these. TV viewers tuned out at a frantic rate while UPN kept ENT on life support, long after another network might've done a mercy killing (CBS endured only 13 episodes of Brannon Braga's Threshold, which also employed Mike Sussman and André Bormanis from ENT).

The DS9 "stuck on a station" argument is laughably oblivious to common metaphorical scenarios, which, for example, also allow a wagon train to be replaced by starships for storytelling purposes. A space station is such a metaphor. Many movie/TV stories are "stuck" within a tightly localized backdrop: The community pub, courtroom, hospital, school, et cetera, are each a stationary base setting for the resident ensemble, with situational interlopers and/or excursions.

The Lost ensemble too are "stuck on a station": a remote island. The premiere episode attracted an audience of 16-million, and its four seasons have never had fewer than 11-million viewers.

The mechanics of storytelling should be understood by a competent filmmaker, which Abrams has shown to be.


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