Comments on: Star Trek Remastered Ratings Improving

By: Adam Cohen

Adam Cohen — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:39:48 +0000

Ron Jon,

Dude, we gotta hang out and watch this show!

Awesome.

By: Spockariffic

Spockariffic — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:29:39 +0000

Added rules:

Drink whenever there’s a new digital alien ship (twice if it’s a Klingon ship)

Drink when Kirk breaks the Prime Directive (Have lots of booze on hand)

Drink when you can se teh Bridge turbo-lift is misaligned

Drink when….awww just drink!

By: Ron Jon

Ron Jon — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:51:35 +0000

TIVO is for wimps! My roommate and I always stay up on Sunday nights (actually, Monday mornings) to watch Star Trek Remastered. We usually play the Star Trek: Remastered Drinking Game (TM).

Take a swig whenever:
- there’s a new digital ship shot.
- there’s a bad cut for syndication.
- Kirk is cooler than Picard.

Take two swigs whenever
- there’s a new matte painting.
- someone fires a phaser.
- Kirk kicks the badguy’s ass.

Take three swigs whenever
- anyone fires a phaser beam that is digitally remastered
- TOS contradicts anything in the later shows
- there’s an old special effect that SHOULD HAVE been replaced.
- Kirk gets the girl

Chug the entire bottle whenever
- anyone complains (again) about the stupid nacelle caps

By: Commodore Z

Commodore Z — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:22:59 +0000

Who cares about time slots? That’s what TiVO is for!!! I watch it when *I* want to watch it.

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:42:56 +0000

#13 well said :-)

By: An olde timey fan

An olde timey fan — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:02:52 +0000

That’s true — and why these figures are so impressive. To get a 1.6 share on a 40 year old program with no marketing budget to speak of, with crappy time slots and inconsistent scheduling speaks volumes!

- word of mouth is strong, thanks to Anthony and this site, for example

- regular late-night viewers are actually selecting it in preference to Girls Gone Wild and reruns of Law and Order

- it serves as proof-of-concept: Trek can still command an audience.

Imagine what Star Trek could do with even a little marketing support?

By: Xplodin' Nacelle

Xplodin' Nacelle — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:00:39 +0000

Agreed. It’s way too random of a time slot to be gauged with any accuacy. Here in Pittsburgh, it comes on between 1:30 am and 2:35 am. Most of the time it starts at 2:16am. This is so unpredictible that I can’t even feel safe recording it and going to bed. Once I tried it, & got half of Catspaw, & half of “Masterminds.” This really pissed me off. So Instead, now I stay up and deliberately pause the recording during commercials. I figure this way I at least won’t have to be inconveinenced twice. I hate commercials, but I’d put up with them on a recording, if I could feel comfortable believing that the show started & ended at a consistent time. So the advertisers loose me after the original airing. Eventually when they come out on DVD, I will buy the series, & be done with the network’s B.S. Sux to be them!

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:41:32 +0000

This whole ratings thing is nonsense.

I know in manyh markets it doesn’t even air in prime time. Here in Houston, it airs at anywhere from 11:30 pm to midnight. This is a slot where if they weren’t showing Trek they’d be showing Girls Gone Wild commmercials…Truly, only diehard fans like us would stay to watch or even TIVO such an airing.

I don’t know how they can measure ratings for a show when the airtimes and dates vary so widely.

It’s not like it’s in a consistent slot on a network for crying out loud…in primetime.

TTM

By: hitch1969©

This is very mac in the pants kind of news.

hitch out.

=h=

By: StarTrekkie

StarTrekkie — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:16:18 +0000

Picardsucks: (he doesn’t BTW) – It’d be cool if you took a picture of that billboard. It’d be cool to see =)