Rick Berman:
you sir, are a dork.

won't be buying ANY of the Trek DVDs.

NP -- Moby, "Play" CD

Poopyhead might very well have been better.

but "dork" sounded funnier to me.

But I was referring to the films, actually. I keep hearing people say how he's ruined the films with his "clenched fist" on the filmmaker's visions and stuff like that. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with the movies.

Berman and Company ( Paramount Execs) routinely discount input from fans and seldom attempt to placate them with any kind of extras or goodies. Examples:
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The DVD’s could be loaded with extras. They won’t be because Berman and Company know they don’t have to. They will sell fine without any extras. Having said that, let me point out that I doubt if any new light could be shed by having the original cast do a commentary track (even if you could get them to agree since so many of the original cast hate William Shatner) because almost all of them have written books declaring what they believe and what they remember of the original episodes and movies. Further as to deleted scenes, some of them are not available in Widescreen format because Paramount couldn’t think of any reason to keep widescreen cutting floor footage. (ST:TMP) so that maybe one of the reasons we aren’t getting deleted scenes

Generations. The first movie Next Gen movie reused special effects and stock f ootage because they could. They knew it would do a 100 mil and it did.

When they ask fans what they want in a series, or what kind of stories should be done, they routinely ignore whatever is suggested. (I am not talking stuff that couldn’t be shot)

The generally low opinion fans have of the current and recent shows. They blame a lot of this on Berman and Company. In fairness, they are the ones in charge of what some fans consider sacrosanct material and they don’t show proper reverence. (Example: They had to scrub the date of the Eugenics war from the original series for a Voyage episode because it (Eugenics War) was supposed to take place in the 90’s and they wanted to do a Time travel Episode set in the our 90’s)
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In all, given the realities of making an expensive SF show, I think that they do a fair job of producing a show that is accessible to all. The problem is that they are willing to give up great story ideas to make it more accessible. (Example: The Reset Universe is very annoying. The reset Universe refers to the fact that nothing that happens on Star Trek matters. If one week they discover a brand new technology, it is immediately forgotten the next week. This is done because in syndication, there is no guarantee that shows will be shown in any particular order)

There are many other examples, but these should suffice to give you an idea of what fans have against Berman and Company.

[This message has been edited by MWRuger (edited 11 July 2000).]

1. He doesn't care about continuity. Gene had a guy on staff who was responsible for trying to keep things consistent.

2. He not only thinks Brandon Braga can write, but he has him in charge of Voyager

3. He doesn't place as much importance on music as Gene and Bob Justman did. Does any self respecting Goldsmith fan like Dennis McCarthy?

Want to fix the movies? Bring back Nick Meyer (Trek 2, 4, 6).

My understanding is that the folks at Paramount Home Video would like to add some special features to the DVD's, but they have to date been unable to get approvals from TPTB who are very high up the food chain at Paramont.

The Wiseman project regarsding ST-TMP is the first time Paramount Home Video has gotton approval to do something this special for TREK.

And if your hopoing for isolated music scores.

I'm told GNP CRESCENDO has already made their feellings quite clear to Paramount on the topic and the other record companies who have the soundtrack rights to the various films agreed.

Regards

Ford A. Thaxton

In my mind, this was the "Moment Of Truth" for TNG.

During a commercial, I told my wife, "If Picard DOESN'T HAVE THAT PIECE OF CRAP DISMANTLED at the end of this episode, I shall never watch Star Trek: TNG again!

Well...there it is.

NP: The Stepford Wives on AMC.

As far as the Eugenics War thing I never even thought of it until someone was frothing about it on one of the boards. My reaction was..Oh,SO?

Just set the damn series in an alternate universe and forget all these damn time-travel ideas.

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Originally posted by Swashbuckler:
And get some @#$%&ing music on the show.

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Actually, some (not much) DS9 episodes (I liked DS9 from the beginning, but for me, with the later seasons the show became nearly perfect; for weeks there were great episodes without a single bad one. I have yet to see the last seasion, though)... Anyway, some episodes had really good scores, e.g. the Empok Nor show. At least some of those were composed by a Mr. Bell, I forgot his first name (I doubt it's Graham...).

It doesn't change the fact that, despite the efforts of some very creative composers (David Bell, Ron Jones, Jay Chattaway etc.), musically the spin-off series could have used their music better.

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