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>>>>> The tiny ratio of 50%% time travel episodes simply wasn't enough to
>> fully
>>>>> mine the rich lode of absurdity and unbelievability offered by the
>>>>> time
>>>>> travel genre. My suspension of disbelief simply wasn't blasted out
of
>>>>> the atmosphere nearly often enough.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Pardon the sarcasm, I just got done watching "Bloodlines" where
Worf
>>>>> meets his Son from the Future.)
>>>>
>>>> ROFL. Isn't that the truth ;-)
>>>>
>>>> If B&B's reign ever goes down in history books in some fashion, this
>>>> pattern of storytelling would certainly be marked as [the cause of]
the
>>>> downturn of the franchise.
>>>
>>> While I certainly agree that the use of time travel in Star Trek
>> television
>>> series and movies was, to put it mildly, overused, I don't believe that
>>> it
>>> is the reason for the demise of the Star Trek franchise. That award
>> should
>>> go to Paramount for running two Star Trek series at the same time, not
>>> developing a Star Trek movie based on the series Deep Space Nine or
>> Voyager,
>>> and rushing the movies they did wind up making to the detriment of the
>> film
>>> in production at the time.
>>
>> Movies based on DS9 or Voyager? Didn't DS9 and Voyager "finish?"
>> or was that just me thinking DS9 (as much as I liked it) ended
>> satisfactory
>> with no need to come up with some absurd reason to get the crew that
>> scattered to the 4 winds back together again .... sorta like Worf being
in
>> the last 2 TNG movies or all of Voyager's crew, some of them not even
>> Starfleet, staying together after they got home after 7 years... as who
>> can
>> forget that oh so great finale with the Borg/timetravel/Klingons.
>
> There wouldn't be a need to make a "reunion" movie from either DS9 or
> Voyager. But there could have been a film made that could have taken
> advantage of some of the great characters from those two series. When you
> ask the actors from the two shows about this topic, you will get an
earful.
>
> Most, if not all of them are not happy about being basically tossed after
> their respective series ended with no chance for a feature film part.
Kate
> Mulgrew got a tiny part in one of the last movies, but that was really
only
> about a half minute of screen time, so I discount that.
>
> Not getting a feature film deal from Paramount is a really sore point with
> these actors who have pretty much faded out of the scene. When was the
last
> time you saw Nana Visitor in a film?
Then again these actors did work steadily for 7 years, and can milk the
convention circuit for the rest of their lives and not really have to act
again.
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