Guess who wants to see TREK scrapped? (not me!!)

[Deja Q]

From an e-mail I just got:

>Source: World Entertainment News Network
>
>STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION star LeVAR BURTON has begged TV bosses
>never
>to make another new Star Trek show and allow the sci-fi series to rest
>in
>piece.
>
>The actor - who played LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GEORDI LA FORGE on both the
>big
>and small screens from 1987 until his final appearance in 2002 movie
>STAR
>TREK: NEMESIS - hopes the last series of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, from
>2001,
>will be the very last.
>
>And (LeVar) Burton is threatening to get nasty if executives ignore his pleas.
>
>He says, "Star Trek coming to an end is long overdue.
>
>"They ran it into the ground and made so much Star Trek that it ceased
>to be
>special. If they bring this back before a decade is out I will get a
>high-powered weapon and start picking off studio executives."
>(IG/WNTEX/GES)
>
>
>(c) 2004 World Entertainment News Network

Wow. I like him more and more!

[dbonds]

1. I am a big Star Trek fan and I tend to agree with him.

They don't do the topical issues in a different setting (so we can see them from a different angle) anymore. They are not even clever. Just space adventures. And they did time travel to death.

[underpants]

2. He gets cable on that visor thing?

Who knew?

[Sequoia]

3. I thought it was a hair clasp for women with lots of hair to hold back

[youspeakmylanguage]

4. He's mad because of the increased competition...

...for the autograph tables at the geek sci-fi conventions. That's how a lot of these former Star Trek actors make a living nowadays.

[Deja Q]

5. Well, as the TOS cast dies off that won't remain a problem...

:hide:

:-(

[motely36]

6. "rest in piece"?

World Entertainment News Network needs a proofreader!

:)

[youspeakmylanguage]

7. Slips like that are a pain to catch...

...because they slip by automatic spell checkers.

[Mutley]

8. I agree.

I've been a fan of Star Trek for as long as I can remember, but he's right. It's just been done way too much. They should take a break for several years before trying to do more with it. I don't know about the high powered weapons, though. :crazy:

[Dudley_DUright]

9. I think he meant to say "phasers on stun"

:-)

[edbermac]

10. Who cares about Geordi??

He was such a wuss with women; the only way he could get laid was on the holodeck. Wesley Crusher was a stud compared to him...