Year of Hell

I stole the name of today's blog from a two part Star Trek: Voyager episode. I feel it is a very appropriate title for today. In the episode things kept getting worse for the crew for 365 days and then things snapped back a year and all those bad things were erased. Any chance we could do that here? I mean, Bush getting reelected was bad enough, but someone else actually moved higher up my 'Would Not Care If Someone Assassinated Him' List, which I never actually made in case you were wondering. It's all figurative. Anyway, Bush is knocked down to #2 as someone who has been hgih up for awhile moves to #1: Rick Berman.

WARNING: THE REST OF THIS BLOG IS HERESAY AND PERSONAL OPINION. I HAVE SOME FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE BUT NO ACTUAL EXPERIENCE ABOUT WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES.

What did Rick Berman do, you may ask? Here's a brief history lesson for you. Star Trek was created in 1966 by Gene Roddenberry. It was a brilliant show that ran for three seasons and really picked up momentum in syndication. By the 1970's, they had made a movie, and the 1980's saw the spinoff, Star Trek: The Next Generation reach new heights. It was soon followed by Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Star Trek: Voyager. Voyager was the show that launched UPN. While all this was going on, 10 movies were made, and the fifth show, Enterprise, premiered in 2001. Now here we are about halfway through Season Four of Enterprise, it's ratings are going up, they finally have amazing writers (Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens), and the show gets cancelled! Why? Was it UPN? Nope, that network is proud to carry it and can't wait for the sixth installment. What went wrong?

Gene created TNG and even had a hand in the development of DS9, which was the best made show. Ira Steven Behr took DS9 and ran with it and made it brilliant. Jeri Taylor, a producer from the hugely successful TNG took Voyager and developed it. Brannon Braga, writer os the seventh and eighth movies, took over Voyager from Jeri Taylor and made it the Number One show on UPN when UPN was the Number One station on satellite television. Everything dark in Star Trek can be attributed to Braga. Braga went on to help create Enterprise, but has become more and more detached from the show. Why? I think it's Berman!

Berman screwed up Star Trek: Insurrection (the 9th movie) and took the fantastically brilliant script of Star Trek: Nemesis (the 10th movie) and managed to cut the hell out of it until it was mediocre. Berman took over the franchise in 1991 when Gene died. Berman took TNG and Voyager off the air despite their popularity. Berman kept DS9 from reaching the heights it could have. And Berman is pulling Enterprise just when it's earning it's rightful place among great Trek. BERMAN IS AN ASSHOLE!!! Enterprise has a great cast, great concept, and a great villian this year (Brent Spiner) and is moving towards the birth of the UFP, which was set 10 years after the series premiered. Initial estimates were a 7 year show (like the previous three series) and a movie three years later. Now the UFP will form at the end of the season. I HATE BERMAN!!!

Qop!
"Let me get this straight. You think I'm evil because I brought a bunch of teenag girls out into the wilderness...and didn't touch them?" ~ Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer