Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

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>,
 "GeneK" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Jaxtraw" <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
> 
> > 29/26 is 0.5?
> > 
> > Yay, the New Math.
> 
> "Cancellation" refers to when they got word the series
> would not be picked up for a fourth season.  That news
> came midway through the third season broadcasts, by 
> which time the majority of the season's episodes had
> already been filmed (I seem to recall reading somewhere
> that they filmed the last five or six episodes knowing that
> they wouldn't be back, but can't remember where I saw that).  

I recall that quite differently.  I understand that they got the axe 
during the filming of turnabout intruder.

> Back in the 60's, networks seldom pulled series off the 
> air halfway through a season.  Mid-season replacements 
> and series dying after four eps on the air wouldn't become
> common until well after TOS was off the network lineup.
> 
> GeneK

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