i can still sing the entire we didn't start the series song
And i can do it at 4 times speed
I would too if the movie trailer narrator started talking to me about Voyager spam while I was trying to find the best search engine ever.Holy crap, I hadn't seen that Voyager ad
I love how the dude just seems sort of... mildly annoyed when the ship flies over
The "Next Time's" on TNG were wild too
The narrators inflections on words are astounding
When Spike TV got the rights to DS9 and Voyager they literally aired them as their entire morning and afternoon block for one entire run of the series each. All seven seasons.Did they really air Voyager 5 nights a week? No wonder people got sick of this franchise at one point.
The Billy Joel song is wild, I wonder if they licensed the tune?
I would too if the movie trailer narrator started talking to me about Voyager spam while I was trying to find the best search engine ever.
When Spike TV got the rights to DS9 and Voyager they literally aired them as their entire morning and afternoon block for one entire run of the series each. All seven seasons.
I was working from home when DS9 happened and I watched maybe 95% of all episodes. Caught a ton of Voyager when that happened a bit later.It's such a weird narrative for a commercial! Even for the late 90s!
Man, I remember this. Coming home from middle school every day and just binge-watching a bunch of Star Trek while devouring a frozen pizza. My grandmother would tape the episodes that I'd missed while at school, too; I wonder where those cassettes ended up.
TV channels in the 1990s loved Star Trek because there were so many episodes that they could use it to pack their schedules.
Did they really air Voyager 5 nights a week? No wonder people got sick of this franchise at one point.
The Billy Joel song is wild, I wonder if they licensed the tune?
UPN was launched with Voyager as it's flagship and you better believe they actually did air Voyager five nights a week as soon as they possibly could.The glories of syndication reruns. Back when basic cable was on the rise and suddenly there were all these new channels that needed programming (plus random network affiliate stations all over the place), they would buy up rebroadcast rights to pretty much anything that wasn't terrible (and a lot of things that were) just so they could fill a full-day schedule. No one was airing Voyager first-run episodes five nights a week, that was still a one-per-week thing, but you bet tons of channels were eventually putting on an episode every day after the show finished its run. Probably right after the comedy block of old Simpsons, Seinfeld, Friends and Cheers or something like that.
UPN was launched with Voyager as it's flagship and you better believe they actually did air Voyager five nights a week as soon as they possibly could.
Did they really air Voyager 5 nights a week? No wonder people got sick of this franchise at one point.
The Billy Joel song is wild, I wonder if they licensed the tune?
Did they really air Voyager 5 nights a week? No wonder people got sick of this franchise at one point.
The Billy Joel song is wild, I wonder if they licensed the tune?
Heroes & Icons Network currently runs all five Star Trek series, back-to-back, six nights a week (Sun-Fri) as a five-hour block. They were even running the TOS animated series for a while as well on Sundays, so six hours of their programming schedule that day was Star Trek.When Spike TV got the rights to DS9 and Voyager they literally aired them as their entire morning and afternoon block for one entire run of the series each. All seven seasons.
"Nightmaaaaaare"
"Alien killing machiiiiiines"
"On Staaaaaaar Trek: The Next Generation."
I worked at a UPN affiliate in the 90's. I probably made the most 90's Star Trek: Voyager commercial of all time:
https://youtu.be/2tDvIuA4skw
EDIT: I admire the script of that "we didn't start the series" spot. Cleverly written for local work!
This commercial also led to a still-persistent rumor that "Wherever You Will Go" was at one point going to be the show's theme song.
Really neat to see someone who actually worked on some of these in this thread.
TV channels in the 1990s loved Star Trek because there were so many episodes that they could use it to pack their schedules.
For example, a random weeknight on Sky One (in the UK, and Ireland) in 1999:
That's two episodes of DS9, with the first episode (at 1700) being repeated at 2330. They did much the same thing with TNG and Voyager, and on weekends it was pretty common for them to just block out huge parts of their schedule with Star Trek.
(And yeah, that almost certainly contributed heavily to people getting bored with the franchise, and is one reason (of several) why Enterprise struggled - when it started filming, nobody really felt any lack of Star Trek to watch.
Wow. I guess it's probably an even cheaper way to fill the schedules now than it was twenty years ago, though there's now been enough other ways to watch Star Trek that I can't imagine many people would be viewing an uncurated stretch of episodes with ads.The sci fi channel in canada currently airs 8 hours of trek every weeknight. TOS on monday, TNG tuesdays, Voyager wednesdays etc.
This is like some live action Rick & Morty interdimensional cable. It's so fucking weird.
TV channels in the 1990s loved Star Trek because there were so many episodes that they could use it to pack their schedules.
For example, a random weeknight on Sky One (in the UK, and Ireland) in 1999:
That's two episodes of DS9, with the first episode (at 1700) being repeated at 2330. They did much the same thing with TNG and Voyager, and on weekends it was pretty common for them to just block out huge parts of their schedule with Star Trek.
(And yeah, that almost certainly contributed heavily to people getting bored with the franchise, and is one reason (of several) why Enterprise struggled - when it started filming, nobody really felt any lack of Star Trek to watch.
That reminds me of this Enterprise commercial.
This commercial also led to a still-persistent rumor that "Wherever You Will Go" was at one point going to be the show's theme song.
Mark Daley always nailed it on Citytv, which dubbed itself "You Federation Station" in their ads for it.
Ernie Anderson!That VO guy's title read was so iconic. I should see if I can find out his name. He nailed it the same way all seven years, too, ever since he started, on the pilot:
The "Next Time's" on TNG were wild too
The narrators inflections on words are astounding
I would have liked to see the preview of "The Measure of a Man".
""Mad scientist wants to shut down Data!!!!!"
"A Picard speech that sets off explooosions !!!! (of eloquence)"
"Data's going to die? Actually, he's not alive, so he's already dead!!!!"
Sub RosaI would have liked to see the preview of "The Measure of a Man".
""Mad scientist wants to shut down Data!!!!!"
"A Picard speech that sets off explooosions !!!! (of eloquence)"
"Data's going to die? Actually, he's not alive, so he's already dead!!!!"
Sub Rosa
"Dr. Crusher gets baaaad news."
"A stranger tells Dr. Crusher secrets of her past."
"Then. They. Fuuuuuuuuuuck."