Dennis
Thank you for passing on this info.
I was/am a fan of B5 - good story development, gritty and believable,
intelligent characters. If Straczynski ever does develop a Star Trek
series I will want to watch.
I also liked Star Trek NG, but none of the other spin offs.
Patricia Altner
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On Feb 15, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Dennis Fischer wrote:
> "i'm trying this via google to see if I can access the groups, since
> I've
> been offline since AOL stopped carrying newsgroups.
>
> I don't normally do this...in fact, I don't think I've ever done this
> in any
> group before, because I've always kind of waited to make sure it was
> worth
> doing, and that it would make a difference.
>
> I'm sending this to both the B5 folks reading this and any Trek fans
> looking
> on.
>
> Bryce Zabel (recently the head of the Television Academy and
> creator/executive producer of Dark Skies) and I share one thing in
> common.
> We are both long-time Trek fans, from the earliest days, who felt that
> the
> later iterations were not up to the standards set by the original
> series.
> (I'm exempting TNG because that one worked nicely, and was in many
> ways the
> truest to the original series because Gene was still around to
> shepherd its
> creation and execution.)
>
>
> J. Michael Straczynski
>
> The original report can be found here.
>
> UPDATE : Straczynski just posted another message, which follows :
>
> "Actually...belay everything I just said.
>
> In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent
> it, and
> it made its way through the moderation software, two things happened:
>
> 1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV
> world
> a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no
> matter who
> would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks putting in
> time
> doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I don't think
> that's a
> proper use of anybody's time.
>
> 2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV
> series
> for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can happen in
> the
> interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the deal, but that
> should
> be fairly straightforward).
>
> So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
>
> We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes
> us, but
> in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the middle of
> the
> night.
>
> As you were.
>
> Thanks and with great chagrinedness --
>
> jms""
>
>
Patricia Altner
Vampire Readings
<http://www.biblioinfo.com/vamp>
The Moon In Science Fiction
<http://www.biblioinfo.com/moon>
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