People ask members of Congress to take all sorts of action on space-related issues: support the Vision for Space Exploration, fully fund NASA, keep Hubble operating, save Enterprise. Save Enterprise? The TV show? Yesterday I stumbled across an online ad that linked to this page, part of a grassroots effort to revive the show from cancellation. It asks people to contact their members of Congress and ask them to sign an attached letter to Viacom president Les Moonves. “If Star Trek can show that is has supporters in Congress, as was done to save the television show Bonanza over 30 years ago, the executives at Paramount will surely take notice, and perhaps grant Star Trek a much needed reprieve,” the note to legislators claims. Maybe I’m just cynical, but don’t you think members of Congress have bigger things to worry about?
Well, I don’t know, Jeff. Star Trek is pretty important. But they did have a wrap party for the series last week, so it’s probably too late for Congress to make a difference… unless the government could somehow force the Sci-Fi Channel to pick up the franchise?
That’s the trouble with stumbling around in GoogleAds on space-related web places. You end up reading about anti-gravity devices and real estate offerings on the Moon