# Enterprise Extinction Spoilers! -- fellate with too much alacrity here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594 "2003-09-24T17:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/141 "2003-10-01T20:18:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Corner Case \* > \*\*SNIP > > The first and second seasons were working well and developing characters and plots. I can’t help but think that Paramount Brass were just looking and the ratings and the bottom line and saying “You’d better get a bigger demographic or we’ll shut you down.” Ironically, by just going for the action/adventure and the sex they may pull in some, but unless they keep it up they won’t hold those newbies. And if they keep it up they’ll lose their base. Look at us - fans who’ve missed a week and aren’t insane lunatics because of it! > > It’s a business and needs to make a profit. But you make a profit by serving the customer. Syndication rights to a dud won’t bring in the money. So, I’m hoping that this spate of puerile episodes will bring in the curious, satiate the Brass, and let the writers concentrate on better episodes later. I love the CG and the effects, but lose some of them and save some money. Or put it into latex effects and have some good dialogue among characters. Just remember what _The Twilight Zone_ could do with an empty room, some odd lighting, and a group of people who just become paranoid about what’s happening to them. \*\* Yes, it is a business and a numbers game. That’s why it’s important to watch the show or at least record it on Wednesday nights when the ratings are counted. they don’t count them on the weekends no matter how many people are watching the reruns. It won’t be allowed to just coast along, though. If they don’t get the numbers, they won’t make it because the PPTB will assume that not enough people are watching to make it worth producing. that’s why there is such an extensive letter-and-email writing campaign going on right now directed not just at the Powers but also at the advertisers. Actually, things look okay for now, and if they sweep well in November and February, I think they could have a fourth season, at least. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/142 "2003-10-01T20:23:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*It was a combination acknowledgement/slight jab. You know me too well, **Linus**. Nothing personal, **Cervaise** … we all have our idiosyncrancies that’s easily picked at. See **viva** ’s earlier verbing post where she pretty much hits them all (except **Linus** ’ :D) dead-on. > > By the way, welcome to the fold, **Corner Case**. One of us! One of us! \*\* “we all have our idiosyncracies **that are** easily picked at.” We also pick at grammar. We look for things. Things that make us wince. 😉 **LinusVanPelt** , verbed: He **Linus’d** his way through a commentary without being too defensive or **Snarkironing** in any way. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/143 "2003-10-01T20:34:00Z")
I meant _that’re_… I don’t know how _that’s_ came out. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/144 "2003-10-01T21:23:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by vivalostwages_ > …an extensive letter-and-email writing campaign… Do you have some email addresses and suggested content/length/format information? I’ve never heard of this and never sent such email. I would like to mention what I like so that they understand what draws me, if that is what would be useful to them. STNG once said they would accept scripts from fans and I sent off for the information on how to submit. I got the info but never did write anything. ☹ _Don’t try, don’t fail, but don’t succeed either._ [sub] **Thanks for the warm welcome, Aesiron.** [/sub] [sub]I’ve just gotta establish a rep so that I can get verbed too.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/145 "2003-10-01T21:35:26Z")
I don’t think that the shows accept amateur scripts anymore and I know for sure that the books don’t even though they used to. Sucks, too… some of my favorite Trek novels were written by fanboys such as ourselves. As a matter of fact, if you ever get the chance, pick up “Yesterday’s Son” and “Time for Yesterday” by AC Crispin. They’re books based around Spock fathering a bastard child with Zarabeth, the hot little blonde in the episode where they go back to some world’s Ice Age. Not that any of this has anything to do with the _shows_ but at least it’s Trek related. That’s better than a lot of our posts. (Post early and post often, **Corner**. You’ll earn your ensign pips in no time flat) ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/146 "2003-10-01T21:51:20Z")
**Corner Case** , **viva** posted this link in another thread. [http://www.triphammered.com/support.shtml#TPTB](http://www.triphammered.com/support.shtml#TPTB) It has some sample letters and numerous adresses. Welcome, BTW. Just remember panda, Hoshi, Hoshi, Hoshi, and not to take anything that’s said here too seriously, and you’ll get along fine. And once you’ve been verbed by **viva** adjectives just won’t do it for you any more. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/147 "2003-10-01T23:54:31Z")
Thanks for putting in that link, **Linus**. evay at [www.triphammered.com](http://www.triphammered.com) does a great job. I’ve been snail mailing and emailing the advertisers and bigwigs like crazy. Just modify her letters a bit, make one, then just change the name and address on it after you copy and paste it. Then you can send a whole batch of letters out. She also has a link to The Enterprise Project–the ones who put a full page in Hollywood Reporter (I think) to support the show when its 3rd season premiere occurred. The folks at OSH (Orchard Supply Hardware) even told me to live long and prosper when they replied. 🙂 (Geeks everywhere, I tell ya.) They used to accept unsolicited scripts for Trek shows for VOY and DS9 but had to stop because they were getting too many potential lawsuits from people claiming their ideas were stolen. Not that you can copyright an idea–only the execution of it. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/148 "2003-10-01T23:56:42Z")
Testing my tweaked sig: ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/149 "2003-10-01T23:57:49Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/150 "2003-10-02T00:00:59Z")
_that’s a pretty big sig for being so small_ ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/151 "2003-10-02T01:36:59Z")
> [@](#): > > from _CornerCase_ > > - Communication. Con: Instant translation with another race they’ve just met. Great! Fix: Make it harder! And they **did** make it harder in season 1, and I thought it was a good idea – the idea that the universal translator was much newer and wasn’t up to the level that we see in TNG. Hell, even in TNG we had an episode about difficulties with first contact communications. Shaka, when the walls fell… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/152 "2003-10-02T01:57:34Z")
**Aesiron** and **Linus** at the Straight Dope… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594/153 "2003-10-02T04:22:21Z")
Saw the episode; I don’t get the hate. Sure, it wasn’t _Yesterday’s Enterprise_ but it wasn’t _The Child_ either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-extinction-spoilers-fellate-with-too-much-alacrity-here/203594.md?page=7)