Written by Bruce A SciFi Fan 6-30-07 (Scifi-Weekly accepted my submission, but they did retitle it to "Star Trek Sould Follow Stargate")
MGM is breaking Ground, Taking a Series From an active tv series to a direct to DVD release, of 2 or more movies a year, starting in 2008, they taking the lead and setting a fine example for all studios! I wonder which studio will be the first to continue a tv series as a direct to DVD release when it leaves TV with a full season of 22 to 26 episodes?
Also this calls to mind an ongoing Campaign that has been done by Enterprise Fans to get there show back, for the last 14 months they have been asking Paramount to continue Star Trek Enterprise TV series (which aired from 2001-2005) as a direct to DVD series, Paramount has not listened, not even replied to the sites taking part in this campaign, one has to wonder if MGM folks are listing to the Enterprise fans plea for a direct to DVD series (many Enterprise fans also watch Stargate), even though they have no control over Enterprise, they have taken this first step with Stargate, and the promise of a couple of movies a year with the same cast members that were in the Stargate "SG1" TV series.
So Paramount has been out done by a competitor MGM
, what is interesting is the size of the fan base for both shows is very close in size, Paramount has also been out done by MGM in this respect, keeping the writing and story telling fresh and appealing, as Stargate fans are hanging on wanting more of the same show, a show that has been on tv 10 years!!! Talk to any Star Trek fan and they all agree that Trek on TV has went down hill since the Next Generation ended, and a lot will say the down hill slump had started in the 5th or 6th season of Next Gen. Paramount allowed writers who lost there creativity to continue running the Trek Franchise, oh they had some good Ideas for a series, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, all excellent plots for a TV series, but the writing for the individual episodes had lost something, that spark of life, that makes a show special, until season 4 of Enterprise, most fans are very quick to point out that the life that was missing for all those years was back, and this is attributed to Manny Coto running the show that last year, with the exception to the horrific season finale B&B did that one (many fans say over a coffee break a few days before they filmed it) this finale will go down in Trek history, let me rephrase that, it will go down in the history of TV as the worst Series Finale ever !
By season 4 (2005) UPN Had been in trouble since 1999, when first talk of turning off the new network was on the internet, UPN had not been spending much on promoting any of its shows, and did very little to promote Enterprise, they knew how fans felt about B&B, and could have made a big advertising campaign about Manny doing season 4 but did not, and thus a good show was cancelled, a year later UPN ceases to exist, was merged with WB to create the CW.
So who will be the first Studio to do a whole new season of a TV series (a cancelled, or a just ending show) as a Direct to DVD release? Time will tell we will have to wait and see, but My Money is on MGM to champion this Brave New Frontier, and To Body Go Where No Studio Has Gone Before! As they are doing now with Stargate SG1 as a direct to DVD Movie!
My hat is off to MGM for Taking this bold step forward, Live Long And Prosper MGM & Stargate!
8-28-07 “The World Enough and Time”
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Tom Cruise has signed up to make a cameo appearance in the upcoming Star Trek film as a favour to his friend JJ Abrams.
