First off... Paramont has NOTHING that they can KNOW will bring in money like a Trek movie. Have any of the Trek movies FAILED to make money?
EVER?
Nope... they are a sure thing.
Nemesis came close to not breaking even. Video sales helped it out in the end, but the bottom line is that the guranteed profit margin for a Trek movie has dropped off considerably. I don't see them greenlighting another one now, and they didn't as the recent reports suggest. No, a Trek film is by no means a "sure thing" anymore. At best, it could work in the direct-to-video market, but those rarely earn enough to cover the budget of a Trek feature.
Plus, most fans have a beef with B&B, not Trek.
If that were the case, they would have came back to ENT when Manny Coto took over. So far, they haven't, and more still are leaving.
Trek will NEVER be something that Paramont will take lightly, and they will never give up on it.
That was definately true a year ago. Sherry Lansing, the head of the studio, is credited as the one who stuck by Trek through the recent years. However, she quit late last year and there are inklings that the attitude of the current management towards Trek is different than what it was.
This is it, J. If ENT doesn't start performing soon and if the studio decides to cut its losses, Trek is finished. Not for a year, not for five years, but for a really long time. And I for one fear that it'll end up just like
Battlestar Galactica; gone for twenty years only to return in a bastardized and unrecognizable form that doesn't deserve the name of
Star Trek.