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Homestead
Topic Started: Aug 7 2007, 10:20 AM (260 Views)
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I'm such a cry baby! This episode just did me in, especially when Tuvok did his little dance steps at the end.

I hate seeing Trek series come to an end and I'm only a few eps away. :cry1:
 
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aww i know what you mean, especially with DS9 and Voyager which you could tell were leading to the end of something, where as the rest were more just "haha by the way, that was the last episode"

Homestead was a great episode i thought, i was really pleased for Kneelix, and also season 7 was my fav series so i was annoyed they were ending it.

btw, does anyone know why they decide to end trek on 7 seasons usually?
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fleshandblood
Aug 7 2007, 04:46 PM
"haha by the way, that was the last episode"

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seriously though, I the reason the others ended like that was because their premise was pretty much an open one, go off, and explore stuff

DS9 got a premise to fufull when they shifted it into the War arc, and Voyager's goal was get home, so atleast on Voyager's end it had to go that way with a definite ending, and DS9 with the war spanning several seasons they wrapped the whole show up with everyone moving on pretty much

TNG Berman decided he was ending and shunting over to the big screen by about season 7, if TNG had gone longer and then decided to end without movies being the reason to end it perhaps it would have had a more DS9/Voyageresk Finale, who knows
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perhaps, tng was very exploring a new thing every episode, where the others were less episodic and more story based, obviously TNG still developed characters and ideas, and kept to a timeline, however it was just given a whole load of episodes then stopped. i dont know why they needed to finish DS9 and voyager on season 7 though, DS9 finished well, it wrapped everything up, but still another season would have been good

voyager could have gone on as long as it wanted to really, it didnt NEED to end where it did, but i still liked how it did finish, what i mean though, was;

was there a decision that star trek series should end after 7 seasons, or was it just the way it happened?
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Aug 7 2007, 05:12 PM
perhaps, tng was very exploring a new thing every episode, where the others were less episodic and more story based, obviously TNG still developed characters and ideas, and kept to a timeline, however it was just given a whole load of episodes then stopped. i dont know why they needed to finish DS9 and voyager on season 7 though, DS9 finished well, it wrapped everything up, but still another season would have been good

voyager could have gone on as long as it wanted to really, it didnt NEED to end where it did, but i still liked how it did finish, what i mean though, was;

was there a decision that star trek series should end after 7 seasons, or was it just the way it happened?

TNG's format being open in nature meant that the show could basically go on forever, as long as the rating were good

really the only reason IT ended at 7 seasons was because Berman wanted to capitalize on it by sending it to the movies and hopefully make money, and the second reason was that durring TNG season 7 the writing and creative team was split between TNG, DS9, and the creation of Voyager, which is ALOT to spread yourself thin with, Voyager obviously would need the set space TNG occupied so TNG was ended at 7 seasons (with the movie actually being shot right after the season's filming ended with only minor changes to the set) then the sets were all revamped into Voyager's sets (if you look closely you can actually spot exactly how they changed the TNG sets into the Voyager sets)

DS9 like TNG I agree could have gone longer if they wanted to, but TNG ended after 7 years, and so DS9 did as well (I think they also did the same thing where they'd started working creatively on ENT about the time that DS9 was ending, that or the show had only been picked up for 7 seasons max to start with and they were good with that)
and Voyager I think was only a 7 year contract in the first place, always intending to only go 7 years max,.. which in a way was almost too long for that poor show, because you can really only ALMOST get home so many times, and be magically bad ass enough to beat up the borg (which no one else seems able to do) so many times before it gets a bit trying (I mean they blew up the borg queen like what? 3 times?)

Voyager had to end at some point and end in a definitive way, it's premise was lost ship tries to get home, so obviously once you get home it's all over

DS9 was about a space station, and TNG was about Exploring strange new worlds, new life and new civilizations bolding going where no one had gone before etc etc etc...
both of them were open premises that didn't have a definite ending, unless the Enterprise was told to stop exploring, and DS9 got exploded into space dust they could have gone on forever :lol:
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ok, thanks for explaining that, it certainly sounds like that could be what it is.
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