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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2162844" data-attributes="member: 4275">I think it was more the state of the show and the network's impatience with it. He knew that whatever he did to turn things around he was going to have one year to really rack up some numbers.At least, that's the impression I got from what happened to Manny Coto... he was given a year. I think Paramount probably handles Trek about the way Hasbro handles D&D. They don't understand it, all they know is it makes them money. When it makes them LESS, they talk to the guy who (in their eyes) understands it, and that's Berman.Judging from what I've heard him say, he's telling them the solution is that the franchise needs to "lie fallow" for a bit. Chances are he is NOT telling them the REASON it needs to lie fallow is because he has tried to remake TNG 3 times (TNG, Voy, Ent) only each time with less substance, more action and more sex, and that he has driven off the once-loyal fanbase. Something Manny Coto said that really shows how out of touch Berman is, Manny wanted to do shows that tied into TOS. Berman said no because "there are only 3 fans of the old show left".When Coto told him that the New Voyages fan film based TOS was downloaded 12 MILLION times, his jaw hit the floor, and Coto got to do his TOS tie-ins.Combine that with his "no references to Kirk or Spock EVER" edict and you have a man who clearly knows nothing about trek, who tries in vain to capture the ratings of TNG by trying to turn the franchise into Miami Vice in space. Chuck</blockquote>

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