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    he was hanging out with RVD back then I bet King

     

    Yeah.....The Dream was definately smokin' something :lol:

     

     

    The solution to this IC problem is obvious. WWE SmackDOWN is going to end on UPN soon enough. The show should be scrapped and it makes no sense to broadcast it on USA Network when WWE Monday Night RAW is already the flagship show.

     

    Unify the rosters. Ditch the US and World Heavyweight titles and one of the tag team championships and merge the rosters again.

     

    This is what I suggest:

     

    1- ONE roster. ONE world title. ONE mid-card title. ONE tag team title. ONE CW title.

     

    2- Hire some new fresh talent. Book them properly. Ditch the dead weight.

     

    3- Scale back the number of PPV's.

     

    Have the Royal Rumble in January, Wrestlemania in March/April. King Of The Ring in June. Summerslam in August. Survivor Series in November, and that's it for PPV's.

     

    Instead of having the brand specific PPV's, come to a deal with NBC for a new series of WWE Saturday Nights Main Event. Two hours of WWE action on late night network TV. The WWE accesses the kind of demographic that all networks value so the network and the WWE will make a killing with commercials. Also placing the WWE on network will bring them far greater exposure to a wider audience than they would have with those half-assed PPV's.

     

    The matches on SNME would simply feature matches between non-feuding wrestlers which could test the waters for possible future feuds.

     

    WWE Saturday Nights Main Event on NBC would be broadcast in February, May, July, September, October and December. Just once a month.

     

    Add all that to the international tours and it's enough.

     

    In wrestling, LESS is MORE.

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    However, if Voyager had behaved as the Equinox, why would you even want to go home anymore? You're just going to end up in a penal colony for years on end for breaking every code in the book. I'd rather stick to my integrity and ideals and see where they take me.

     

    Well you see, that's another issue that could have been addressed in the final episode.

     

    Would Starfleet throw them in prison for violating their code?

     

    Or would they feel obligated to celebrate them as heroes, despite the fact that the truth may be different?

     

    Perhaps it would have been decided to cover up the truth and instead tell the people of the Federation that they stuck to their moral principles in the face of such adversity. Essentially selling propaganda to the people.

     

    Would the crew be able to pick up the pieces of their lives and go back to normal? Or would they be forever changed? Would their own conscience's haunt them?

     

    Now.....THAT would have been the VOY for me. :lol:

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    Sure, it could have been all dark and gritty but then to me it wouldn't have seemed like Star Trek anymore. Star Trek is about an idealistic vision of the human future and Voyager was probably the greatest test of that vision.

     

    It really depends on what kind of vision one prefers. This will be the great divide in the fanbase, between those who want the Utopian kind of vision, and those who prefer the darker elements. On one hand, the Utopianism CAN work, because you can contrast the darker elements against it. The problem comes from making too many races in Star Trek utopian.

     

    It simply leads to blandness which was VOY's biggest problem. Personally I like the darker more conflicted vision of Star Trek for the sake of drama. What they COULD have done is show Starfleet idealism conflicting with the mercenary idea, but that seemed to die in the first episode where the Maquis got into their Starfleet uniforms and that was it. The whole drama of having two seperate crews and values ended right there.

     

    Here is a crew lost, alone, likely to die without ever seeing home again. It would have been far too easy to abandon Starfleet's principles (which, I may point out that if they had been so willing to abandon them, they would never have been stranded in the first place since they would have used the array right away).

     

    That itself could have been used as the focal point for the hostility between the two sides. The Maquis faction should have demanded they use the Array, but Starfleet values force Janeway to destroy it. But again it never happened. Janeway practically said "We'll destroy the Array" and Chakotay said "OK". It should have been written as a fierce debate which the Maquis faction never forgave her for. Also some dissent among the Starfleet crewmembers would be made them more interesting too.

     

    Instead, this crew sticks to their principles and they get HOME. Equinox abandons them and 5 of 78 crewmen survive (roughly 6% of her crew). Voyager gets home with roughly 2/3 of what they started with.

     

    To be honest, IMO watching the struggles of the Equinox crew would have been more interesting. To see a real fight for survival. Captain Ransom and his crew were infinately more complex and interesting than Janeway and her crew (aside from the Holo-Doc). The fact that most of Voyager's crew survived is another issue. Most of the crew should have died throughout the seven years. So when Janeway got the ship home, her "victory" would be bitter, because so many people didn't get home.

     

    Voyager touched on some of the survival issues but quite frankly with a replicator, there isn't a whole lot to worry about (sure they could have showed the construction of new shuttles and what not, or searching for an energy source).

     

    Which again took away drama from the show.

     

    Tuvok: "Captain, we are running low on food".

     

    Janeway: "It's OK, we can use the replicator and it's unlimited energy supply".

     

    It becomes bland and stale. There's no danger, no drama, no desperation. Which virtually rendered the fact they were marooned in the DQ pointless. They could have been in the AQ and it wouldn't have made much difference. The fact they didn't worry about anything WAS part of the problem.

     

     

    Most Starfleet vessels are designed for long tours of duty and Voyager was friendly which meant they could get help (much like stopping at a Starbase) without expending resources and killing people (and making even more enemies who would have destroyed the ship before they even saw the Borg).

     

    But a ship like VOY was supposed to be small and vunerable. That was the whole reason it was designed the way it was. So that they would constantly be outmatched and outgunned. Which increases drama. I never believed they would be in any kind of difficulty because this would always happen:

     

    Paris: "Captain, our shields are losing power and our warp field is collapsing".

     

    Janeway: "Prepare a final spread of torpedoes".

     

    Tuvok: "It's no use, their shields are holding".

     

    Torres: "Captain, we could re-route the phase inducers through EPS manifold and vent the reverse thrusters through the technobabble and the high gain antenna into the deflector shield to boost our phaser power by eight-hundred percent"

     

    Janeway: "Will that be enough power?"

     

    Torres: "I think so Captain".

     

    HRH The King: "Will it cover this lazy plot-hole?"

     

    Torres: "It's worth a shot".

     

    It was the same old same old week after week.

     

    Voyager was proof that Starfleet's principles and can stand up to whatever the galaxy throws at them.

     

    Which IMO severely damaged the show. It could have been so much more.

     

    I think VOY (with some exceptions) is always going to be the show that produces the "Meh" response from the fans. No one really loves it. But no one really hates it. It's just apathy.