September 8, 2004

Times Fatigue

You know it is time for an emergency reboot of your brain when you read a paragraph like this in the New York Times on the death of Star Trek:

Some people suggest the problem is audience fatigue. Some say it is creative exhaustion. One solution to both, several actors, writers, producers and directors of past "Star Trek" incarnations say, may be to stop making new "Star Trek" stories for a while. -- Fans Hope Suns Can Rise Again on 'Star Trek'

and your mind instantly translates the paragraph into:
Some people suggest the problem is with the New York Times is audience fatigue. Some say it is creative exhaustion. One solution to both, many editors, writers, reporters and readers of past "New York Times" incarnations say, may be to stop publishing The New York Times for a while.
On the other hand....

Posted by Vanderleun at September 8, 2004 10:18 AM
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Criminey. After seven grim years of "Voyager," we got "Enterprise," which everyone hated because they had the phase-coil ramscoops permanently set on TREK SUX, even though the new show is 10X better. It's the anti-PC Trek, and earned my undying patronage when two characters - a Southerner and an Englishmen - realize they're going to die when they get lost in a shuttlecraft, and spend their last moments sharing a bottle of scotch and talking about the Vulcan chick's arse. On "Voyager," Chakotay would have made a Dreamcatcher out of wire and led them in breathing excercises.

Whiny geeks. Draft them all and drop them in Damascus, I say.

Posted by: Lileks at September 8, 2004 3:57 PM