Vigilance said:
Even Manny Coto... his comment that, when he presented the idea of doing many shows that tied Enterprise directly into TOS, to which Berman replied "there are only like 3 fans of TOS left" made Berman look like the pointy-haired boss to me.
There is a little quote like that attributed to Braga from the production of First Contact. Apparently Brannon Braga wanted to get rid of Zephram Cochrane and make the inventor of Warp Drive a hot woman to be a love interest for Picard. The various advisors and consultants screamed bloody murder about the blatant continuity breach and Braga dismissed them with "Who gives a s***, only 1% of the fans will know OR care" and "You don't make a movie based on one episode." He was reportedly talked out of this reluctantly, the love interest became Lily Sloane, and the romance angle was toned down in later drafts.
I think a lot of the problem of the B&B era has been that Berman consideres continuity (and TOS) to be obstacles to overcome, and want flash-bang time travel and shoot-em-up episodes with big fancy superweapons, bigger and badder guns and ships every season, and lots of technobabble to provide convenient deus ex machinas, and none of that annoying plotting, and thinking, and those irritating story arcs that involve coming up with stuff in advance (like how they never even had an idea who "future guy"). Rick Berman was the kind of executive who ruined Firefly, Crusade, and now Enterprise.
It's not very likely, but my dream series is one set in the decades between Star Trek VI and TNG (like maybe the later missions of Enterprise-B?), as I always loved the movie-era uniforms and ships, with the series written and produced by Ronald Moore, Manny Coto and J. Michael Stracyniski, with maybe some more episodes done by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, DC Fontana, and Harlan Ellison. Berman/Braga completely out of the loop with regards to production, and as I'm sure JMS could do so well, an overarching plot arc to the entire series so that it actualy goes somewhere and they can have actual foreshadowing, and character development, and not feel like each big threat and huge nemesis is just a ratings stunt pulled out of nowhere.
