Rick Berman interview on youtube

mac1701 · July 06, 2012, 04:27:03 PM

Forgive me if it's been covered elsewhere, but I watched an 3 hour interview with Rick Berman on YouTube today. It's from 2006 and im sort of surprised I didn't hear of it sooner. I can't say I ever had anything bad to say about the man except for the last episode of enterprise. I still don't care for it. With that being said, this interview was quite interesting. He really seemed to care about trek. I may be in the minority, but I respect him for what he did for us as fans. Especially in the early days of tng. He sounds like a nice guy who worked his way up from the bottom. The 2009 movie is great for what it is, but I'd much rather have a tv series.

Bryancd · July 06, 2012, 04:49:49 PM

Nice find. I have never been a Berman/Braga hater.

mac1701 · July 06, 2012, 04:51:16 PM

Me either. I don't get it. Glad to know I'm not alone!

Bryancd · July 06, 2012, 05:11:52 PM

Yeah, I think they did the best they could with what they had and were charged to do. And Rick Berman produced a crap load of amazing TREK and people just keep harping on Enterprise, which was GOOD!

ChrisMC · July 06, 2012, 05:27:31 PM

I have seen this, it's a fairly revealing interview and so interesting if you are a ST fan from that era. I never got the Berman hate either...Braga wrote First Contact! Not to mention All Good Things, Data's Day, uhhh.... The Inner Light. And many more. The guy is talented.

mac1701 · July 06, 2012, 05:32:58 PM

In my mind upn was the demise of Enterprise. In my area it was always bumped off the schedule because of sports, not to mention it just didnt fit in with the rest of the programming. Season 4 was great. It went before its time. Would have been great to see the romulan war and the founding of the federation. How is it that there are so many "fans" of trek that freely admit that they haven't actually watched enterprise? I was there to the end and still think it had a lot of life let to it.

mac1701 · July 06, 2012, 05:44:11 PM

I'm with you. There is threshold from voyager however. But I can forgive it. We need another "spock's brain" here and there. Especially considering all the good stuff braga wrote. I can watch cause and effect over and over. No joke intended.

saunders · July 26, 2012, 02:03:30 PM

This is a good interview. I don't have a problem with Berman either. People forget all the great things he did for Trek. TOS is my first love and I'll be the first to admit that TNG became better when the TOS folks headed out and Berman's team took over. I think the problem with him is that he was around too long. If he would've left after DS9 people would have a much different opinion of him. I think we just had the same people's vision carry over into different series for too long and it became a little stale (in my opinion).

Ktrek · July 26, 2012, 08:06:35 PM

I think Rick Berman did an excellent job turning TNG into a successful series and I think without him it may not have lasted the seven seasons it did. And even though I like Enterprise I still think the weakest episodes of it's run were the episodes where Braga and Berman were too involved. Especially the episodes they wrote. The show got better the more the reigns were turned over to others. Too bad they had already lost too large of the Trek audience when the series got really good.

Kevin