Newsgroup: it.fan.startrek
Titolo: Raccolta fondi per produrre ENT

Dico la verità, la consideravo una patetica colletta, fatta da folli
utopisti. Quando ho letto questa cosa sono rimasto a bocca aperta.
$ 3,067,765.00
http://www.trekunited.com/
Investors in commercial space flight industry anonymously contribute
$3-million to TrekUnited
http://www.saveenterprise.com/3m_contribution.htm
Money pledged to fund a fifth season of Star Trek: Enterprise 
TrekUnited.com today announced that three anonymous contributors have
stepped forward with a $3 million pledge toward the campaign to ensure a
fifth season for the recently cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise.
Paramount Network Television and the United Paramount Network (UPN) jointly
announced on Feb. 3 that this would be the last season of Enterprise on
UPN. Fans pooled their skills, time and finances to form TrekUnited.com in
an effort to fight the decision by raising money themselves to pay for a
fifth season of the on-going space adventure.
The benefactors also added a statement explaining why they believe this
campaign deserves such a substantial contribution:
"We think Star Trek and especially its latest incarnation, "Enterprise" is
the kind of TV that should be aired more often. The people responsible at
Paramount think this is just a show and we want to tell them, it is not. We
are in the commercial space flight industry and would like to testify that
at least one out of two of all the actual entrepreneurs involved in this
industry has been inspired by Star Trek; and we are not only good at
watching TV sci-fi , we are also good at writing checks, big checks. The
people airing this kind of TV have a responsibility; inspiration. Star Trek
has inspired us, and particularly Enterprise, with its superb theme song
that tells so much about our struggle to move space travel forward and
closer to the public, this inspiration is so self evident, that Virgin
Galactic has ordered a 5-sub orbital ship fleet from Scaled Composites, a
100 million dollar investment, and the first one being built is going to be
christened ‘VSS Enterprise.’ Now doesn’t that ring a bell in Paramount’s
ears? Now, canceling the series so bluntly, for the sake of just ratings,
tells very much about the kind of thinking going on inside Paramount. If we
thought the same way, Paul Allen would have never funded the SpaceShipOne
program. Sir Richard Branson would never have funded Virgin Galactic and
Space Adventures would never have put two space tourists aboard the
International Space Station. Instead, we would all be at home watching
Survivor or some other reality TV show. Enterprise needs to be renewed, for
the sake of fan loyalty, for being quality TV, for bringing imagination and
hope for a better future to our homes, but over all that, for inspiring us
so strongly that we have fought all our adult lives to bring that future
closer to our children and to us."
TrekUnited Director Tim Brazeal also stated contributions like this one
brings the campaign much closer to its goal. "We are overwhelmed at the
generosity of these fellow Star Trek fans," Brazeal said. "We believe that
Enterprise deserves a future. With contributions like the one from these
generous individuals and those of millions of other Star Trek fans
worldwide, we will succeed."
Under the terms of the TrekUnited charter, the campaign will be able to
give the money to anything that will guarantee a fifth season of Star Trek:
Enterprise.
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 this campaign deserves such a substantial contribution:
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Potrò sembrare patetico a qualcuno, ma mi sono quasi commosso a leggere le 
parole di quel benefattore.
Se il mondo fosse popolato da più persone in grado di volare con la fantasia 
e spingersi con essa "là dove nessuno è mai giunto prima", questo sarebbe un 
mondo migliore, meraviglioso...
RP aka SotterratoVivo 

mondo migliore, meraviglioso...
E poi, se ci si pensa, che male c'è se una multinazionale stanzia 3 milioni
per produrre una serie tv? IMO proprio niente.
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fifth season for the recently cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise.
Come diceva Rockfeller "adoro il capitalismo, è il miglior sistema per
togliere soldi agli imbecilli".
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togliere soldi agli imbecilli".
Sembra che chi li abbia investiti sia quello della Virgin, che
finanzia anche il volo di Fossett...
o lui o Paul Allen, da quel che sembra.
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