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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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