Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:29:40 -0500
From: thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

It would take an effort, wouldn't it.  There are a dozen or so major
Trek websites that might be recruited to ask their viewers to contact
local television stations and to start sending emails in every
direction.  (Don't break the chain or a Chinese satellite might land on
you.)  If we could achieve a truly well-publicized Hugo it would be
great for science fiction in general and for the clubs in particular (as
well as being a gentle nudge in the direction of Paramount).
Interestingly, Slanted Fedora Entertainment, one of the major Star Trek
convention operators just went belly up due to falling attendance since
9/11.   Any such loss of interest is not likely to be missed by the
studios whose actors take part in the conventions.  --Tom Haughey

Michael Pederson wrote:

>Is there such a thing as a "well-publicized Hugo"?
>
>Michael D. Pederson
>Publisher/Editor
>Nth Degree
>
>On Apr 18, 2005, at 11:58 AM, thaughey wrote:
>
>>Enterprise needs to receive a well-publicized Hugo once it expires.
>>Maybe that would shake something loose with respect to the SciFi
>>channel
>>being allowed to take it on.  That is, if it would be possible to get
>>the cast and crew together again.  They are currently scattering to the
>>winds seeking other employment, although the top stars seem content to
>>take a few months off.  --Tom Haughey
>>
>>Mike B. wrote:
>>
>>>At 12:35 PM 4/17/05 -0700, N Lynch wrote:
>>>
>>>>--- "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I think the Tivo caught it (haven't watched it to
>>>>>check yet)...they're all reruns these days though.
>>>>>
>>>>Oh, no, no, no.  *Enterprise* is nearing the end so
>>>>they have started showing the last, I believe, six,
>>>>Friday being the first of the last.
>>>>
>>>Yes.  I was thrown off by the recent "viewer's choice" reruns.  Since
>>>Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica have all
>>>hit end
>>>of season a couple of weeks ago, just when Enterprise started doing
>>>reruns,
>>>I figured it was over too.  Oops.
>>>
>>>>Last Thursday's WASHINGTON POST's TV column was about the local UPN
>>>>station which has a contract to show Nationals game,
>>>>two of which will be preempting two of the last
>>>>original episodes of *Enterprise*.
>>>>
>>>I missed at least one episode during the season due to that idiocy.
>>>They
>>>ran the game long, so I missed the last half of the show on Tivo.
>>>Since
>>>then I've told Tivo to record ALL of them, even duplicates, in case
>>>this
>>>stupidity happens again.
>>>
>>>>Those episodes will be ONLY shown on Saturday at 6 PM.  I don't know
>>>>if CH 20 will be repeating any of *Enterprise* once it
>>>>ends.
>>>>
>>>I kinda hope the whole thing moves to Scifi like some other series
>>>have.
>>>Enterprise is the last show on UPN that I watch, and if it moves, I'll
>>>never have to put up with their preempting a show I want for a stupid
>>>sporting event that can't finish on time...
>>>
>>>-- Mike B.
>>>
>>
>