On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: > However, and someone out there must agree with me, *something* happened with > the Trek franchise after the end of TNG and shortly after "Generations" was > released. If I must find hard evidence of this claim, I can mention that > the popularity of Trek merchandising (Paramount's hottest ever!!) started to > decay in rapid numbers. Compared to what it used to be during the heydey of > TNG and the Trek films, it's basically nonexistent.
I think Generations had the effect of proving that of TNG's cast only Stewart had any business being on a movie screen. Of course, by the time ST:TMP came out, the original cast already included a number of cultural icons - putting them on the big screen just confirmed that status. TNG was a popular show, but as you've pointed out earlier, it was not a cast of iconic characters. Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Poindexter & Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) http://www.breakyourchains.org/john_poindexter.htm _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
