From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:07:16 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Face facts, people. The Enterprise people spent a full season on a very poor
set of scripts (last season), and killed the series. Any TV series or movie
depends on good, consistent writing, or it will fail. The shows that last
more then two seasons (since the average length of a TV series is still less
than a season, measures as 20 to 26 shows equal a season) have the good
writing. Of course, there are exceptions where the network dropped a
well-written series because it never wanted the series in the first place.

Bob MacIntosh

>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:02:17 -0400
>
>Here's a radical idea... if it was good enough for Roddenberry... hire
>SF writers to write for Trek.
>
>Orignal Trek had scripts by Robert Block, Theordore Sturgeon, Norman
>Spinrad, & Harlan Ellison .
>
>Remember the Ensign Ro character from Next Generation?  Now there wasa
>characterwith "issues".  Lucius Shepard once commented that he would
>have been interested in doing  a script with that character.  Of course
>it probably would not have had a happy ending...
>
>mjw
>