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Original von "Phoebe J."
Warum B&B den Stuhl räumen sollen?
Sicher Berman hat vieles für Star Trek getan und hat dafür auch genug Geld und Anerkennung bekommen. Aber seine Ideen sind verbraucht, und aus Verzweiflung weil ihm nichts neues mehr einfällt (dazu bräuchte man ja Phantasie) schmeisst der die gesamte Kontinuität über den Haufen und er versucht nicht mal alles gut zu erklären. Neue Rassen, mehr Wild-West im Weltraum und bessere Stories, das wäre ein Erfolgskonzept für Enterprise, nicht mehr Titten und Action.

Getting Ron Moore and Steve Behr in the E.P. slots would be just about the BEST thing that Paramount could do for ENT. The next step after that would be to hire a full-time staff of proven sci-fi script-writers. I´ve noticed that many of the writers brought into Trek have had solid backgrounds in writing for medical, police, action and "family" dramas, but a sizeable portion of them lack any sci-fi experience. Getting some serious sci-fi writers on the staff would be a very smart choice/decision indeed- and it´d have a very clear effect on the quality of the stories produced.

While this rumor may be "just a rumor", it definitely sounds like a plausible thing. A network´s diety/god of choice is known as "Ratings". And when the Ratings cease to reflect a show´s potential, changes MUST be made. Trek is a proven franchise with a strong following. The fans (and many non-fans) have been bitching about The Blunder Twins since before ENT- and the number of dissidents has risen.

The problem with the Blunder Twins is NOT their production capabilities. They do a fairly good job on that end of the spectrum- and I have no problem making that concession. The problem with them IS the fact that they cannot seem to keep their noses out of the writing process and, when they butt in with their idea of a "good story", they end up making matters 10x worse. Much like Roddenberry, B&B are idea men, but they suck at fleshing out and detailing those ideas. Roddenberry eventually realized this fact about himself and wisely turned the writing reigns over to the people who KNOW what they´re doing. B&B, after almost 15 years in Trek, have not realized this about themselves and have since made the rest of Trekdom suffer. Braga managed to pen a few decent episodes for TNG. Berman managed to co-write a few good ones for TNG. And when Berman was working as a co-producer on TNG, he had a sort of "checks and balances" to work with, which prevented him from totally driving TNG into the ground (but Ron Moore has suggested on a few occasions that Berman tried and tried hard).

Berman and Braga managed to get VOY off the ground and somehow kept it afloat for the entire series run- despite floudering Ratings and letter-writing campaigns from the fans in regards to the quality of VOY´s stories. When Moore finally quit on them is when VOY really took a nose dive and it never seemed to arise from the dead afterwards. Meanwhile, DS9 was beating the snot out of everyone, left and right, but was drawing near the end of its own series run.

The Blunder Twins have shown what happens when they are left in charge of a Trek show by themselves- it´s worse than leaving a pair of 2-year-olds alone in a kitchen full of knives, IMHO. Ever since VOY, the Blunder Twins have had a long track-record of defending themselves and their decisions MORE than the shows they produced. That´s a poor precident for a production team to make.... and maintain.

Ron Moore, after he quit Trek, actually had the balls to say how he REALLY felt about those two- Berman in particular. He had the cojones to say where he felt that Trek was going, in contrast to where it´s been- and how angry it´s made him... which was part of the reason he quit. That, IMHO, earns him solid credibility. The guy quit because of his love of Trek and the horrible things that the Blunder Twins were doing to it. He left what is probably THE golden job in Hollywood because he couldn´t stand to work under those two idiots anymore.

Yeah. Moore would definitely get my vote as "point man" for ENT.

Steven Behr has just a illustrious and solid a career in Trek as Moore does- he´s penned some spectacular DS9 episodes and was responsible for a major portion of DS9´s recurring story-arcs. His production history on both TNG and DS9 have made him a very reliable and quality commodity in the sci-fi TV industry. Paramount could do a LOT worse than to pair Behr up with Moore again in an effort to bring ENT from the precipice which it most assuredly is dangling from.

I´ve said it before: the best "cure" for ENT is to get rid of the Blunder Twins and replace them with someone(s) who have proven themselves quite capable of doing the job right.

I mean, phuq, Berman hates TOS... how can he carry the torch for Trek if he doesn´t even like its point of origin??? Fire the phuqer and let´s get ENT back to where it belongs.

Trek CAN be new and different. It CAN offer the fanbase a whole slew of bold new stories. The thing that has hindered it has been the production- particularly over the last ten years. DS9 brought us a whole new perspective to the Trek universe. VOY was an out-and-out rip-off. ENT has the potential to give us something utterly new and unique, but it keeps coming back to the whole re-hash syndrome that VOY had (is it any wonder, with the Blunder Twins still in charge of it?).

True, Trek can´t stay the way it is- I´d agree with that in a hot second. If it does, if it keeps trying to remain static, then it´ll definitely fail. It MUST change and be dynamic. Otherwise, it WILL have to be shelved for a good, long while so that lots of people will kinda "forget" about it.

Every episode has they "been there done that" feeling because we HAVE been there and done that- ad infinitum. But that doesn´t necessarily have to be the case. It CAN be stark and interesting and different. They just gotta bring in some people who´ve got the balls to try it.

B&B thought that by making the sexual undertones more obvious and by throwing in a lot of glitz that they were being "new and different." Truth is: they were only reinventing the wheel, Trek style. Bigger and more does not mean "better." And they´re under the impression that the fanbase is stuck in the 60´s, that their fanbase is a bunch of old hipsters who were raised on "Lost in Space", "Gunsmoke", "The Twilight Zone" and "Bonanza." The current generation of Trek fans was actually raised on "Cosby", "JAG", "ER", "Cheers" and Star Wars- an infinitely more discriminating, educated and intelligent audience. We´ve grown up with inside views of Hollywood and the production process. We´ve seen the tricks and styles of literally thousands of writers. We can see through the bullshit like it´s made of glass. B&B don´t understand this, so they feed us their line of bullshit and we get justifiably hacked-off.

Moore, Behr and Echeveria are smarter than that. They know that the audience is looking for a solid story that makes sense, believable character interaction, understandable technical jargon, real-world "issues" AND quality production.

Trek can be as trailblazing as the founding TOS which started it all. The only thing necessary is the same kind of visionary zeal that Roddenberry had, a love for the thing and not just a love for the money it can bring.

If we brought the 5th-season TNG production and writing staff onto ENT (which, yes, included Berman and Braga, but in entirely different roles), then we would see a complete and noticeable change in the series. If they could bring in the same production/writing teams that made seasons 5 & 6 of DS9 possible, ENT could end up making history in the Ratings Game.