:::shakes head:::
Why isn’t anybody forking this kind of dough over to save Firefly?
Yay, let’s donate 3 million dollars to a futile attempt to keep a mediocre tv show on the air, instead of, gee, I dunno, charities or the arts!
:rolleyes:
Ah, but this IS a charity case! 
Why don’t the geeks use this cash they have and get a talented team together to assemble a pilot for a new, original, series of their own.
Oh that’s right, because they have no idea what it really takes to make a good show, they only know how to criticise.
Maybe a better use of the money would be to bribe Paramount to film one of the better Star Trek novels.
Or one of the better fanfic.
Or one of the mediocre fanfic.
Or one of the bad fanfics where Hoshi has an orgy with a bunch of Caitians, or something. It’d still be a sad shell of a Trek series…but hey, Hoshi and Caitians.
Meh, others have probably spent more on less. The benefits of having “surplus” money I guess.
I have never been prouder to be a geek than I am at this moment. My money is on the way.
The world would be a better place if your $$ goes to the American Lung Association or UNICEF. That’s without doubt more in keeping with the themes of Star Trek then blowing it because you want a crappy TV show to stay on the air.
–Cliffy
The classic answer to that (everytime someone gets proscriptive with someone else’s use of money on the boards) is, if you really feel that way, how come you’re not donating all the money you devote to Cable/DSL/subscribing to the SDMB to those causes? Well, because you have just as much right to spend your money any way you want as do those people who want to see another Enterprise show.
My particular reaction to this news is $3,000,000? Isn’t that like, one episode’s worth of cash?
Ha! I steal my access from my employer!
I normally do not whip out the charity card, because I think folks should be free to spend their money on whatever stupid stuff they want (I certainly buy enough comic books), and $20 here or there isn’t necessarily going to tip the scales. But this is just egregious. $3M is a huge amount of money that could do real good, and Enterprise simply sucks. It’s not even like people are trying to save a good show. (And you think Bjo Trimble would have given three mil back in 1968 if she had it?) When people consume entertainment that blows just because it’s got the same name as entertainment they liked years before, that means that no one in Hollywood ever has to strive, and we all get crappier and crappier shows every year instead of better and better ones.
But the point I make above is that anyone who’d give $3M they can spare to save a TV show instead of sending it to famine relief is obviously not someone who has internalized the moral message that has been consistently a part of Star Trek from the beginning to today.
–Cliffy
Um, this is charity to support the arts. Now, I’m not saying that this is how I’d spend my money. I’ve never even seen an episode, and even if I did, I probably wouldn’t feel strongly enough about it to pledge money. But of course, there’s no accounting for taste, and apparently, there are folks out there who think Enterprise is so good they’re willing to drop a megabuck to support it. OK, that’s fine, it’s their money, and if they really feel that way, I have no problem with it.
Yes, there are many other worthy causes out there to support, both artistic and otherwise. Most people donate to a variety of them. How is this any different than a philanthopist donating millions of dollars to support a Guggenheim art exhibit? That money could probably be better spent elsewhere, too.
I’ve donated this year to tsunami relief and the United Way. Forgive me if I also want to donate the price of a DVD to a “crappy TV show”.
I keep meaning to post this link in “Enterprise”-related threads… How Fans can Cope with the End of First-Run “Star Trek” Episodes. “Donate $3 million” isn’t on the list, but “buy a full-page ad calling for the renewal of ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ with money you were saving for eventual full-page ad calling for the renewal of ‘The Venture Brothers’” is.
The same could be said for anything, such as your subscription to the SDMB message board, which also could have gone towards charity.
First of all, you do not know that they haven’t donated to charity. Secondly, it’s their money and they’re free to do with it as they please. They are not under any obligation to donate more to charity simply because of their higher income.
you’re really opening the Great Debates can of worms here. Seems like whenever someone wants to use a large amount of their income for a cause, everyone has to criticize that their cause wasn’t good enough, and that it should have gone to something else. NASA shouldn’t be allowed to explore Mars because that money could be used to feed poor children. 50 Cent can’t have a 100 inch plasma TV in his closet because he should be spending his on reducing domestic violence (how does MONEY do that anyway?). I can't build myself a nice impressive DVD connection because I SHOULD be donating all my spare to the Tsunami fund (maybe if they called it the Tidal Wave Relief Fund, I would have…). Look, in all of these cases, this was OUR money to use as we see fit. Don’t try to guilt trip us for using the money that we spend hours upon hours a week working for, or in NASA’s case, money that was allocated to them by the government (not to open a great debate of my own, but I believe that government funds allocated for advancements of science are important, and that they really SHOULD cut our military budget in order to make charity donations)
In this case, these geeks chose to spend THEIR money to help a TV show that they enjoy. Leave them alone about it.
If I had that much money to blow, I would spend it on really getting off this planet, instead of just in a fantasy on a television series.
studies my latest map of habitable planets
Shouldn’t they be spending that money on finishing thier robots?
Thier girl robots?
At the risk of being whooshed: a tsunami and tidal wave are different phenomenon entirely – the former is a wave caused specifically by underwater seismic events whereas the latter is just the swelling of tides and generally a hell of a lot less damaging.
As for the donation: yay. There’s no way in Sto’vo’kohr I’d pay $3,000,000 to save it but if others want to, more power to them.
They should give it to me so I can pitch my “Midshipman Kirk” concept to Paramount!