Updated - December 26, 2005
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Mr. Doug Herzog
President, Spike TV
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 1
Mr. Herzog,
Please make Spike the new home of Star Trek.
Star Trek has seen me through every stage of my life. I watched TOS in elementary through high-school, TNG & DS9 through 10 yrs of college, VGR through my first struggles in the professional world, and ENT through my first three years of marriage and birth of my son.
My family and I are devoted to Star Trek in all its incarnations, and already watch DS9 and TNG on Spike. We would religiously continue to watch Voyager and Enterprise on Spike as well.
At my house, we have Spike programmed into the �Turbo� on our remote (one touch tuning in). We would love to press that turbo button even more.
Please adopt Voyager and Enterprise!
Sincerely,
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I am writing to show my support for Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek in general. I have been a fan of the original Star Trek since I was a child and my interest has been continually renewed by the 4 series� that have followed. It is a tradition in our house to watch Star Trek every week.
This series is very high quality and offers exciting, fun and thought provoking stories. It would be a big mistake to discontinue producing new episodes of Star Trek, especially since the Star Trek phenomenon is such a legend in American pop culture.
Thank you,
(sign it by hand and include your name and address typed underneath your signature)
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For magazines, news programs, etc.
To Whom It May Concern:
Please consider doing a story on the cultural phenomenon of Star Trek.
The Star Trek fans of my parents generation preserved the original Star Trek series for a third season with a letter writing and demonstration campaign. Their efforts made Star Trek a legend. Regardless of the number of seasons that the original show was on, the fan campaign is what made Star Trek into the phenomenon it is today.
There have been 4 subsequent Star Trek series� � a unique situation in television � new episodes have been in regular production for the last 18 years. Now it's my turn to save Star Trek for my kids. Although Enterprise has been cancelled, it might be possible to get new episodes in production, but even if that doesn't happen, the outcry from the fans has made an impact - and Star Trek will not die all together.
Star Trek is an American pop culture icon. Will this be the end of it?
Thank you for your time,
(sign it by hand and include your name and address typed underneath your signature)
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(my mom wrote this one, she's 75 years old. Please change it before sending it - just use it for inspiration, because it's very personal to her.)
To Whom It May Concern:
Star Trek has proven to be a living, versatile source of information and entertainment, as well as a wonderful source of worthwhile values that aren�t usually available.
Actors come and go, characters come and go, concepts are updated, yet always the view into the future is plausible and exciting. I have been a Star Trek fan since its inception. Before that ( in the 1930�s) my brother was an avid reader of Flash Gordon comic books. He had to hide his books from our father who thought they were a horrible influence on the mind of a young boy. In my opinion our father was short-sighted and wrong. Reality has far surpassed Flash Gordon. Don�t deny any of us the pleasure of seeing into the future and witnessing �good� overcoming �evil.�
Please don�t deny young minds the opportunity and guidance to think outside the box. Our young people need an example that makes them feel like they�ve been given permission to be visionaries, and Star Trek: Enterprise gives them that permission. They don't just want to watch the re-runs, they want new stories every week and new characters to get interested in. Enterprise is also very relevent to our times because it helps us see ways of thinking rationally and with compassion about differences between people and cultures, even when it's difficult and scary.
I don�t have many years left, but I want to continue while I can to see more of the possibilities of the future.
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My Life With Star Trek
(a letter to whom it may concern)
When Voyager was slated to end I was praying there would be another series - not just because I love Trek (and I'm the same age as Trek) but because my fiance of 6 1/2 years had just left me and the only thing that got me through each evening was watching like 4 or 5 episodes of ST (mostly TNG and VGR). I was living in a town where I didn't know anybody and only had a part-time job, so it was tough.
I decided to move back to my home town just before Enterprise started. I stayed with my mom for a few months while looking for somewhere to live/work, etc. There I was, watching the first episode of ENT in the living room of the house where I grew up, and here comes the theme song...I just sat there and cried. Not only was it so beautiful, but the lyrics were so pertinent to my life.
"It's been a long road..."
Star Trek has seen me through every stage of my life. I watched TOS in elementary through high-school, TNG & DS9 through 10 yrs of college, VGR through my mistaken engagement & break-up (thank you Tom and B'Elanna for helping me believe in romance again), and ENT through my marriage to my own "Tom Paris" and birth of my son.
Star Trek...I want you to be with me in all the phases of my life to follow. What more can I say?
Sincerely,
Pecanpie/Farmgirl3704
Please use these letters either as inspiration, or to quote from, or even word for word (except for the last two) - and please WRITE!
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