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STAR TREK IS DYING

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It is official; Nielsen confirms: Star Trek is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Star Trek
fandom when Nielsen Market Research confirmed that Enterprise ratings
have dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent
of all Nielsen households.  Coming on the heels of a recent TiVo
survey which plainly states that Star Trek has lost more market share,
this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Star Trek is
collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing
dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive netgeekdom poll.

 You don't need to be a time-traveler to predict Star Trek's future.
The hand writing is on the wall: Star Trek faces a bleak future.  In
fact there won't be any future at all for Star Trek because Star Trek
is dying. Things are looking very bad for Star Trek. As many of us are
already aware, Star Trek continues to lose market share. Red ink flows
like a river of blood.

 The movie franchise is the most endangered of them all, having lost
93% of its core developers.  The sudden and unpleasant departures of
long time script writers Ron D. Moore and Michael Pillar only serve to
underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt:
Nemesis will be the last.

 Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. 

 Star Trek leader Rick Berman states that there are 7000 fans of
Enterprise. How many viewers of Classic Star Trek are there? Let's
see. The number of Enterprise versus TOS posts on Usenet is roughly in
ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 TOS fans. TNG
posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of TOS posts. Therefore
there are about 700 fans left of TNG. A recent article put hardcore
RPGers at about 80 percent of the Star Trek market. Therefore there
are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Trek RPGers. This is consistent with the
number of Star Trek RPG Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles at Paramount, abysmal ratings and so on, Voyager
went off the air and was replaced by Enterprise which represents
another troubled rehash of the same theme. Now Enterprise is also
dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

 All major surveys show that Star Trek has steadily declined in mind
share. Star Trek is very sick and its long term survival prospects are
very dim. If Star Trek is to survive at all it will be among SciFi
dilettante dabblers. Star Trek continues to decay. Nothing short of a
miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical
purposes, Star Trek is dead.

Fact: Star Trek is dying
                         

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Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. ;-)
Incidently, if you feel the need to post any corrections to the
bald-faced lies above, let me just state in advance that YHBT.

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