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From: Jms at B5
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[America Online postings by JMS]
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<H2>Star trek still rules</H2>
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95-12-03 06:05:13
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<PRE>"'Without ST none of these other series would have been born."
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Sounds good. Only thing wrong with it is that it ain't true.
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Prior to ST, there were the SF anthology shows such as the Outer Limits
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and Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond and Men Into Space and many others;
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just prior to ST there was Lost in Space. (And by the way, most critics at
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the time panned ST because they said it was just a cheap attempt to cash in
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on LiS's popularity.) So you could easily say that ST wouldn't be on the air
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except for LiS, if you're going to follow your logic to its ultimate
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conclusion. And let's not forget Forbidden Planet, which is almost a
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template for ST.
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Finally, I'd note that if ST was responsible for other shows coming
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along in that same vein, why have there been no others in 25 years until B5
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(in terms of series set in our future, with us as a spacefaring civilization,
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with a fully worked out cosmology/universe)? Do you know why it took 5 years
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to sell B5? Because we were told, by execs at CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Showtime,
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HBO, and elsewhere that -- and this is a direct quote -- "There's no room for
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any other SF show of this kind other than ST. The market won't sustain it."
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ST has been used as a rationale NOT to do space SF for *years*. We had
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to fight like mad to overcome that notion. So you'll understand why, having
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fought for years to overcome the roadblock that ST was in terms of selling
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B5, why I can only shake my head when someone tries to attribute the presence
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of this show to ST.
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jms
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