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[ManaByte]

Saw this on The Digital Bits this morning:

As I mentioned last week, Star Trek fans are going to be staging a number of rallies tomorrow morning (Friday) in an effort to save Star Trek: Enterprise from cancellation. Here in L.A., fans will be gathering outside the gates of the Paramount Pictures studio lot at 9 AM PST. There's expected to be a LARGE turnout, and if that's the case, we've been told that some of the cast and crew will come out to show their support for the effort. The last day of production on the show is 3/8 and the sets will start coming down shortly thereafter, so time is of the essence. In New York, fans are going to be gathering at the Ice Rink (at 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at 7 AM EST to march on CBS, Viacom and the SciFi Channel. If you're a Trek fan reading this post and you're in L.A. or N.Y., please do whatever you can to make it. Given our successful fight against Divx back in the day, I'm a real sucker for a good grassroots effort. So let's see how many Bits readers we can fill the crowd with. Saving the show might be a long shot, but you never know. In any case, you can at least send a helluva message to the powers that be at Paramount and UPN. The lousy bastards. Visit Save Enterprise, The Enterprise Project and Trek United for more. Save Enterprise in particular has all the details on the rallies. Maybe I'll see you there.

It's a 2 hour drive to Hollywood for me, and I have to go up to LA two days next week, so I won't be making the drive.

 

[B'z-chan]

Sorry, i told them this would happen.

 

[Escape Goat]

"The line must be drawn here! This far! No farther! And *Iiiii* will make them PAY for what they'v done (to star trek)!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[COCKLES]

Let it go...rest it for 5 years then bring it back for the new century around 2010 with a kick arse new storyline and production team.

 

[DarienA]

When is the "Make Sure Enterprise is Really Dying" rally?

 

[BigJonsson]

Haha

I saw some flyers for this thing posted around my school....and I go to school in Toronto!

 

[ManaByte]

startrek.com has an article up about it:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/9656.html

Today's rally at Paramount began shortly after 8:30 a.m. when fans began assembling outside the studio gates with their handmade signs and their enthusiasm. Motorists driving along Melrose Avenue would frequently honk their horns in solidarity.

Several Enterprise production crew came out to witness the event and show their support, including Manny Coto, Mike Sussman, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Andre Bormanis, John Eaves, Doug Drexler, Mike and Denise Okuda, Dave Rossi, Ron B. Moore, Vince Deadrick Jr., Alan Kobayashi, Brad Look, and Jim Van Over. Even Anthony Montgomery ("Travis Mayweather") hung out with the crowds and thanked them for their support before reporting to work.

Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene, was there with a camera crew to record the demonstration for "Trek Nation," his ongoing documentary project. "Star Trek has been something that I've learned from you guys, not from watching it on TV," Rod told the crowd. "You guys have told me some of the most amazing stories and I've met some of the most amazing people. If I could do anything about this I would definitely keep it on the air for you, because I think the ratings are a bunch of nonsense. I don't want you guys to give up. I want you guys to keep fighting for this. I'll tell you what, even if Star Trek lays low now, it will come back again. Star Trek will never die. You guys will never let it die."

 

[BigJonsson]

Tonights episode rocked again

 

[Drozmight]

Glad to see people have their priorities straight.

 

[evil ways]

Fucking geeks.

 

[Triumph]

Man, Robert Smigel should send Triumph the Insult Comic Dog out there to cover this. I can't be the only one who thought this...

 

[Bog]

Pathetic.

 

[shoplifter]

I've known it would be cancelled ever since it hit the Friday night slot of doom. Sadly, it's actually gotten good since the hacks left.

also, obligatory 'people who post on videogame boards calling people geeks/pathetic is hilarious' post

 

[DrForester]

 

[Socreges]

also, obligatory 'people who post on videogame boards calling people geeks/pathetic is hilarious' post

Phrasing it that way doesn't pardon the fact that it's a shitty comparison.