VH1's website posts an article in their so-called "News" section that is little more than trolling disguised as legitimacy. It is insulting, demeaning and deserves every email complaint to VH1 possible from all of us.
http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1496568/020405/article.jhtml
complaints: newsmaker@mtvi.com, help@vh1mail.com
Text of article, just in case...
Thousands of Trekkies Tremble
It's been announced that Star Trek: Enterprise will come to an end this May following four underwhelming seasons. This news was taken especially hard by millions of fans leading underwhelming lives.
Enterprise, starring Quantum Leap's Scott Bakula, failed to find steady fan base and was never able to grow in popularity like previous Star Trek series have. One possible reason for this might have been the decision to cast the sexy Jolene Blalock as "Commander T'Pol," because if we've learned one thing over time it's that Trekkies often seem to get scared away by pretty women.
Unless Paramount steps up with a new Star Trek series for the fall, it will be the first time in over ten years that an outgoing Trek series was not replaced by a new Trek series. If this is the case, millions of nerds everywhere might be forced to experience something that they've never experienced before: the outdoors.
"that Trekkies often seem to get scared away by pretty women." ???????
Like Nichelle Nichols, Marina Sirtis, Denise Crosby, and Jery Ryan?
Yeah. (sarcasm mode on) They scare me every time I see them. (sarcasm mode off)
Clearly haven't heard of John A. Lang.
AMEN, THANDE!
I ain't scared! Bring them on!
That's downright disgusting. It goes WAY beyond rude.
Unless Paramount steps up with a new Star Trek series for the fall, it will be the first time in over ten years that an outgoing Trek series was not replaced by a new Trek series.
Luigi Novi: Try three and a half. Enterprise replaced Voyager in September 2001.
Read it again... the author said not replaced.
Oh yeah. Sorry about that. Probably just wanted to take a poke at the author of that article a bit too badly.
It's VH1. Is anyone surprised by this? Just watch any of their thousand countdown shows, and you'll see that that's all anyone on the network does - trash pop culture.
Scared away by women? LOL! I'm a woman (happily married for 12 years)and a raving Trekkie - is that supposed to be a contradiction in terms?
Outdoors? Gee, I have an energetic 8-year-old son, I sure experience a lot of outdoors with him, summer or winter.
I wouldnt take it to heart Marka, Vinny, Luigi et al. We may never have experienced the outdoors, (hang on Marka's comments in her last post contradict this. I could too but I can't be bothered taking the bait. Who cares anyway about such an utterly ridiculous piece of airhead flummery on the part of some overpaid VH1 hack.) but we have experienced the wonders of having brain power and the critical appreciation of a genre that has spanned over 40 years.
Note to VH1 the tautology in your last paragraph is poor English. C'mon guys use some linguistic imagination here!!! (Rant over)
What about
Rights of the Mentally ill- To have the SUICIDE Method Provided in a Doctor's Office
Uhm... wha?
He's trolling, Dan. He's created several one-off boards for this in inappropriate places.
Oh, yeah, VH1 knows all about quality programming, what with their repeating of videos over and over and over and over and over, dulling the minds of anybody that wants to see the same background choreography over and over and over and over. Oh, yeah, *that's* entertainment! Pity us poor Trek fans that want to see actual stories and plotlines.
VH1's comments are about as relevant as the crazy old guy that talks to himself in the park, namely, Zee-ROOO!
Berman and Braga ought to be locked in the same cell as Anonymous for at least 30 days (a la Paris in "Thirty Days"). After that they'll beg us to let them make the kind of Trek we want just to escape the endless Kahane/Garfield/euthanasia rubbish.
VH-1? Yeah, what are the chances that this channel would protray Dead-Heads as "aging hippie losers who need to get a job" upon the Death of Jerry Garcia.
Pesti, of course Jerry Garcia was a man who died. Enterprise is a show that was taken off of the air. When Gene Roddenbery died everything I saw on any TV channels about him was quite respectful.
On a lighter, and rather unrelated note, that reminds me of a guy I knew who did just that after Jerry Garcia died. This guy's brother had spent the majority of his life following The Dead around and made a living selling LSD to the fans at each concert. When Jerry died he was wondering what he was going to do for a living now, and this guy told him something along the lines of grow up, get a job and stop hanging around with those other loosers.
Brian F: I do not speak of Jerry Garcia, nor do I refer to causual Grateful Dead fans who are comparable to fans of any other music act. I refer to Dead-Heads, a group of Grateful Dead fanatics who followed the band around the country in an almost religious fashion. I am certian that any reference to the Dead-heads would be done respectfully, whereas references to Trekkers, a larger group outside of the music subculture, would not.