Space flight industry contribute $3,000,000 to Save Star Trek Enterprise

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:18:39 -0600, Darrel Toepfer
wrote:

Mutts wrote:
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Jule Verne wrote of traveling to the moon long before it happened.
Happen it did.

Yoda, is that you?

Me it is not.

Mutts wrote in
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:47:06 -0600, "Montblack"
wrote:


"Enterprise" needs to figure out how to get the Vulcan into the shower
more.

Come up with something good or die on the vine. $3M won't help.


The stories are much improved now. UPN does not know
how to market the show properly.

More help is likley on the way. But
they may not need to raise the full amount. It could offset the cost
of any percieved losses or make the show much more attractive
(cheaper price offset by the contributions) to be shopped to another
network. Manys shows have changed networks in the past. JAG for one.
UPN is an awful home for Star Trek. I am hoping the show is picked up
by another network.


www.saveenterprise.com
http://www.trekunited.com






There big mistake this year was moving it to Friday, lining it up
against Sci-Fi channel's Stargate etc. Sci-Fi channel ought to pick it
up, that's about the only thing that would save it.

On, yeah, and more Vulcan shower scenes grin.




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-- ET :-)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

Each episode of ENT runs about $1.2-1.5 Million. So the contribution
is only 2 of 22 episodes.

Trek communicators from TOS. Taken a look at the flip cell phones?
PADDS - tablet PCs. Also useful for displaying charts and such while
in the cockpit (just to keep this on an aviation topic)
Back to TOS, remember the data cards that Spock and Uhura kept loading
into the computer? Just like 3.5 floppy disks (talk about two-way
nostalgia!)
FTL - Hawking claims he's working on it.
Medical scanners - maybe not as sophisticated yet, but it'll happen.

Of course we're still working out the bugs on transporters....

A number of current and retired members of the US Astronaut corps have
admitted to being motivated by Trek when young.

In article , says...

Trek communicators from TOS. Taken a look at the flip cell phones?
PADDS - tablet PCs. Also useful for displaying charts and such while
in the cockpit (just to keep this on an aviation topic)
Back to TOS, remember the data cards that Spock and Uhura kept loading
into the computer? Just like 3.5 floppy disks (talk about two-way
nostalgia!)
FTL - Hawking claims he's working on it.
Medical scanners - maybe not as sophisticated yet, but it'll happen.

Of course we're still working out the bugs on transporters....

A number of current and retired members of the US Astronaut corps have
admitted to being motivated by Trek when young.




Scott Bakula (Captain Archer) recently had a long talk with fan and Astronaut
Mike Fincke on board the ISS. They would send DVDs of the show for him to
watch in orbit.

http://www.saveenterprise.com/spacestation.htm

Fincke spoke of how the opening of the show helped him cope with the loss of
Columbia. Also the second starship on the show has been named after Shuttle
Columbia.

In article , says...

Each episode of ENT runs about $1.2-1.5 Million. So the contribution
is only 2 of 22 episodes.



The donation campaign is only weeks old, there may be more big dogs coming
to help out.

I dont know what the profit margin is or if that term applies
to television shows. But there is a money threshold somewhere.
And no doubt internal political postioning on such big decisions.
It may not have to finance the whole season. It may make it very
cheap for another network to pick up.
Uncharted territory. Nothing like this has ever happened.

Blanche wrote:

Of course we're still working out the bugs on transporters....

Indeed. See: CNN.com 'Star Trek' teleporter nearer reality'

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/a...aust.startrek/

....probably have to keep the Skylane for a while, but still, you don't
get anywhere without a dream first.

Trek communicators from TOS. Taken a look at the flip cell phones?

Yes, and I'm amazed that =none= of them flip like the commuicators did.
They are (to a unit) clumsy to open, require two hands to open (or
prying with fingers) and it is obvious that nobody who designs these
things has ever =seen= a Star Trek episode (at least from the original
series).

Jose
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Jose wrote in news:jLHVd.5561$DW.5105
@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:

Trek communicators from TOS. Taken a look at the flip cell phones?

Yes, and I'm amazed that =none= of them flip like the commuicators did.
They are (to a unit) clumsy to open, require two hands to open (or
prying with fingers) and it is obvious that nobody who designs these
things has ever =seen= a Star Trek episode (at least from the original
series).

Jose

Hah!

My i500 (samsung) phone opens with a flip of the thumb,


It just takes a bit of practice.

--
-- ET :-)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

In article ,
says...

Blanche wrote:

Of course we're still working out the bugs on transporters....

Indeed. See: CNN.com 'Star Trek' teleporter nearer reality'

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/a...aust.startrek/

...probably have to keep the Skylane for a while, but still, you don't
get anywhere without a dream first.


I heard on Paul Harvey the other day they are getting closer to a cloaking
device.
Something to do with the way atoms reflect light. Or sumthin'