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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1303533" data-attributes="member: 151">That's not the problem.&nbsp; The problem is that we'll watch ANYTHING, sometimes.&nbsp; Remember, one of the reasons that Farscape got dropped is that they ran the numbers, and noticed that first-run Farscape episodes and reruns of some shows generated about the same numbers.&nbsp; They decided that there wasn't much point in spending money for almost the same amount of profit.&nbsp; It's the whole 'captive audience' concept that drives Star Trek onward.&nbsp; Paramount is pretty much convinced (and unfortunately, the numbers have borned out over time) that they have a plug-in Trek audience that will watch Trek, regardless of it's respective quality.&nbsp; Call it the Voyager Factor, if you will.&nbsp; It doesn't matter if Trek fans didn't enjoy a show or not...they tuned in, just the same. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp;If the Scifi channel concludes that they can throw virtually anything vaguely scifi-ish on the screen and have an audience of about the same size, why wouldn't they do just that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 1303533, member: 151"] That's not the problem. The problem is that we'll watch ANYTHING, sometimes. Remember, one of the reasons that Farscape got dropped is that they ran the numbers, and noticed that first-run Farscape episodes and reruns of some shows generated about the same numbers. They decided that there wasn't much point in spending money for almost the same amount of profit. It's the whole 'captive audience' concept that drives Star Trek onward. Paramount is pretty much convinced (and unfortunately, the numbers have borned out over time) that they have a plug-in Trek audience that will watch Trek, regardless of it's respective quality. Call it the Voyager Factor, if you will. It doesn't matter if Trek fans didn't enjoy a show or not...they tuned in, just the same. :( If the Scifi channel concludes that they can throw virtually anything vaguely scifi-ish on the screen and have an audience of about the same size, why wouldn't they do just that? [/QUOTE]

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