ליזידי reply to
1. Regardless of the the current effort to save the show... If you were personally faced with a "Solomon's Judgement"-like decision, where you had to decide whether to keep Enterprise alive at the cost of not producing any other ST shows or movies during its lifetime, or scrubbing it in favor of other, unkown projects, what would be you personal decision? And what (in your opinion) would be the general tendency in the ST fans community? (Tim) First I have been a Trek fan for most of my life. I love them all. I would like to say that (I think) that we are looking at just the oposite of your question here. Myself as well as other people that are actually on or around the show believe that you are seeing the death of Star Trek the franchise NOW, not just Enterprise and this is something that I have stated all along. With Enterprise being cancelled, the franchise dies with it. Now, to directly answer your question. If I KNEW for sure that cancelling Enterprise would ensure that the Star Trek legacy continued on. I would let it go and would. I would not push our campagin. "The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few, or one". 2. What would you conclude, and what (if anything) will you do if Enterprise will indeed go under entirely? (TIM) If we cannot get it back. My wife wants me to take some time off. I have dedicated 16 to 20 hours a day on this since the news of cancellation doing interviews and radio shows. Before that about eight hours a day. So I would take some time off and try and setup the largest global Star Trek fan site in the world. It seems that people in the U.S. seem to focus on what we want here. The Trek Universe is a much larger place and I want one place where fans from the world over could come to unite and have a large community. Each in there own language. There are no barriers in the Star Trek universe. Why should we be the exception in the U.S.? But, lets not look at what could happen. Lets foucs on "Saving Star Trek". Remember, the glass is half full. 3. In retrospect, do you think there was anything that should have been done differently, or in a different time-frame, to better aid the effort to keep the Enterprise show alive? (TIM) I always look back and see something that I could have done that might have made a larger impact on a personal level. I always listen to input from everyone around me as well as the fans. NIV has some FANTASTIC ideas as I am sure that most of you do and would love to hear them. As I have told the media and others.. This is NOT a Tim Brazeal campaign but a FAN campaign. It is the combined efforts of hundreds if not thousands of people.. Is there something I could have done differently? I am sure there is. I am currently giving this campaign 100%.. Have I made mistakes? You know I have.. but we learn from them and move on. 4. Do you think that international fans of Enterprise who download its episodes from the internet are hurting or helping the show - in terms of support base and commercial value? (Tim) I am actually using these statistics in our fight. I cannot read the minds of the execs.. My personal thought is that if you have 70,000 international fans downloading the episodes, this is telling them something loud and clear. 5. Has anyone in the U.S. contemplated some kind of class action suit due to emotional distress, just to gain some more (free) press coverage? (TIM) I cannot talk about this one at this time. Media could be watching. It has been more than thought about on this end.
