March 4, 2003

Trekweb has posted a snippet of Rick Berman's comments in issue 143 of Star Trek Communicator. He talks about the failure of Nemesis at the box office, and some of his feelings about Enterprise.

"It is really easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback. You can blame it on the competition, you can blame it on what month it was scheduled to be released in, you can blame it on the movie itself, you can blame it on the fan base deteriorating to some degree," Berman told Dan Madsen. "I think it is silly to make a guess as to what causes a film to do very well or not do very well."

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"Star Trek can be over-exposed; the audience can be saturated with Star Trek," he says. "It is definitely a possibility. But I think that if you look at the first night grosses of the movie,which are almost entirely fans, the fact that those first-night and second-night numbers were considerably down from previous movies tells me that the fans were just not coming out like they were before."

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Although he says the studio has not begun discussing the fate of the STAR TREK movie franchise, Berman thinks taking advantage of the now five television series with a mixed-cast movie could be feasible.

"I have discussed it with a few people," Berman says. "It’s possible. Obviously, we did that with GENERATIONS. Now that we have The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, I think the sky is the limit in terms of mixing and matching... If people knew what it would take to make box-office hits they would be very rich. Whether it means a change in cast or a partial change in cast, or whether it means a longer wait, or it means a drastic change in concept, I don’t know.

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Regarding Enterprise...

"We’re working our way towards the end of the season—-we’re hoping to have a terrific cliffhanger at the end," Berman told the Communicator's Dan Madsen. "I think as these characters getmore complex, because they have a season and a half of back stories now,it’s getting more fun to develop the interrelationships between them."

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