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THE TRACK RECORD OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL......"JOHN EDWARD" CANCELLED....."THE CHRONICLE" CANCELLED......"FARSCAPE" CANCELLED....."TREMORS" CANCELLED......"DREAM TEAM" CANCELLED...."SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE" CANCELLED....."BLACK SCORPION" CANCELLED....."SCIOGRAPHY" CANCELLED....."SCI-FI VORTEX" CANCELLED....."INVISIBLE MAN" CANCELLED....."G VS. E" CANCELLED....."WILLIAM SHATNER'S FULL MOON FRIGHT NIGHT" CANCELLED...."FIRST WAVE" CANCELLED....."FTL NEWSFEED" CANCELLED....."NEW OUTER LIMITS" CANCELLED......"POLTERGIEST-THE LEGACY" CANCELLED....."TOTAL RECALL-2070" CANCELLED......"THE WAR ROOM" CANCELLED......"SCI-FI BUZZ" CANCELLED......"TRIPPING THE RIFT" CANCELLED......"SLIDERS" CANCELLED....."WEEKLY SCI-FI NEWS WITH CHASE MASTERSON" CANCELLED...."MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000" CANCELLED....."VR-5" CANCELLED........"TIME TRAX" CANCELLED......."THE FLASH" CANCELLED......"NOW & AGAIN" CANCELLED......"M.A.N.T.I.S." CANCELLED......."FANTASY ISLAND" CANCELLED......"TIME COP" CANCELLED........"SPACE PRECINCT" CANCELLED......."MAX HEADROOM" CANCELLED......."THE MAGICIAN" CANCELLED....."SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN" CANCELLED........"BIONIC WOMAN" CANCELLED......"HULK" CANCELLED......"SWAMP THING" CANCELLED......"WONDER WOMAN" CANCELLED......"THE IMMORTAL" CANCELLED......"VIPER" CANCELLED......"RONALD D. MOORE'S TREKKIE STAR: GALACTICA" CANCELLED (??)........CANCELLATIONS INCLUDE SCI-FI CHANNEL ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING AND SYNDICATED SERIES SHOWN ON SCI-FI CHANNEL...."RONALD D. MOORE'S TREKKIE STAR: GALACTICA" HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED YET.....

"VAN HELSING" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."THE HULK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."CAT IN THE HAT" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."JOSEY & THE PUSSYCATS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."FLINTSONES" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIVA: ROCK VEGAS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."HOWARD THE DUCK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."PITCH BLACK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIRUS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE.....

WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS CANCELLED ALL OF THE SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AND REPLACED THEM WITH NON-SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, THEY NEGLECTED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE NETWORK TO SOMETHING MORE FITTING. "THE HORROR CHANNEL", "THE USA NETWORK FILM VAULT CHANNEL", "THE INFOMERCIAL NETWORK", "THE HORROR/ACTION CHANNEL", OR "THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORK" WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE TITLES.

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TRACK RECORD WITH FANTASY MOVIES ISN'T MUCH BETTER. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS USUALLY RUNS INTO PROBLEMS WHEN THEY TRY TO MAKE LIVE ACTION MOVIES BASED ON COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. THE "HULK" BORED AUDIENCES TO DEATH BARELY 10 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE.....TURNING "VAN HELSING" INTO A SUPERNATURAL "RAMBO" WAS TOO RIDICULOUS FOR WORDS....."CAT IN THE HAT" PROVED THAT 5 YEAR OLD KIDS WEREN'T READY FOR "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" HUMOR......"JOSEY AND THE PUSSYCATS" WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A "CHARLIE'S ANGELS" RETREAD BASED ON A 1970 CARTOON THAT NO ONE REMEMBERED......THE "FLINTSTONES" MOVIES PROVED THAT REBUILDING "BEDROCK" ON A STUDIO BACKLOT WASN'T ENOUGH TO DRAW IN THE FANS OF THE CARTOON.....SOME PROPERTIES SHOULD BE LEFT IN CARTOON FORM, WHICH "ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" PROVED......"HOWARD THE DUCK" WAS GEORGE LUCAS'S FIRST CAREER FLOP. HOW FITTING THAT LUCAS CHOSE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FOR THAT MOMENTOUS OCCASION......"PITCH BLACK" WAS "PITCH DULL"....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" DISAPPEARED FROM THEATERS FASTER THAN "FINAL FANTASY-THE SPIRITS WITHIN"......AND "VIRUS" PROVED THAT WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS MADE A MOVIE FOR THE SUMMER OF 1999, NO ONE CAME AND WENT TO THE BEACH INSTEAD......

THE MANAGEMENT OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS AN OPENLY HOSTILE REGIME TOWARDS THE VIEWING PUBLIC, SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, AND THE "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA" COPYRIGHT. THE ENDLESS GRAVEYARD OF CANCELLED TELEVISION SHOWS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AS WELL AS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ENDLESS BOX OFFICE FAILURES INDICATES THAT THIS IS A CORPORATION THAT DELIBERATELY LOST ITS WAY IN MAKING RATIONAL BUSINESS DECISIONS. ONE CAN ALWAYS HOPE FOR MIRACLES, AND THE PERMANENT FINANCIAL DOWNFALL OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS A DREAM SHARED BY MANY.
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Coming This Winter To Sci-Fi Channel
« on: October 28, 2004, 04:36:49 PM »

A new television series that combines the best aspects of "Star Trek" cliches with Ronald D. Moore's extremely limited imagination. A "Star Trek" sequel series that elaborates a bit further on the "Star Trek: Voyager" format while at the same time, borrowing with reckless abandon every original idea from "Babylon 5", "Space: Above & Beyond", "Species", and "Andromeda."

Universal/Sci-Fi Channel (The Anti-Imaginative Corporation) presents.....a Ronald D. Moore/David Eick "Star Trek" sequel series production:


"TREKKIE STAR: GALACTICA"


starring Edward James Olmos..................as Captain Picard
Mary McDonnell.....................................as Deanna Trois
Jamie Bamber.......................................as Tom Paris
Tricia Helfer..........................................as Seven of Nine

In the farthest reaches of outer space, the "Starship Voyager" has successfully returned home from the "Delta Quadrant." Unfortunately, the "Voyager" opened up a worm hole during its return home, causing a dimensional doorway to open between "Federation" space and the "Colonial" universe of the "Battlestar Galactica."

A massive sucking phenomenon occurred.  Like a vacuum cleaner, spaceships and characters from the "Colonial" universe were sucked into the "Federation" universe; creating a bold new, EXTREMELY CLICHED, alternate reality. Through some fantastic rearranging of DNA at the subatomic level, "Federation Starships" in the "Star Trek" universe now bear an uncanny resemblance to the "Battlestar Galactica" and her "Rag Tag Fleet."  One time "Federation" officers from the "Star Trek" universe now have the names of characters from the "Battlestar Galactica" universe. Perhaps even worse, the mighty "Colonial" universe of the "Battlestar Galactica" now has its original occupants spewing forth endless "Techno-Babble" in place of plot.

This mutated universe is not a pretty one to behold. "Starbuck" is now a chick. "Seven of Nine" has been mutated into "Six." "Boomer" is also a chick, the former precinct Captain from "Miami Vice"  now commands a "Federation Starship" called the "U.S.S. Galactica", everyone now wears "Babylon 5" uniforms, pilots mutated "Battlestar Galactica" spaceships, spews forth "Techno Babble" in both universes, and an alien named "Six" (who used to be "Seven Of Nine") now has glowing spine just like "Sil" from the movie "Species."

In an awkward attempt to seal the worm hole connecting both universes, the top brass at "Starfleet Command" and "The Council Of The 12" have formed an uneasy alliance. They have decided to use three captured prisoners who mysteriously appeared in the "Galactica" brig at the time of the "Worm Sucking/Vacuum Cleaner/DNA Merging" phenomenon and use their bodies to plug the worm hole. Captured prisoners Bonnie Hammer, Ronald D. Moore, and David Eick will be sacrificed by "Starfleet Command" and "The Council Of The 12" (their live bodies will be jettisoned into outer space, into the worm hole), in a valiant attempt to plug the worm hole and set both universes back to normal.  Grin


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