Regarding SF: Why does Hollywood kill that which it doesn't understand?
Has anyone else noticed that Hollywood tries, deliberatly or not, to destroy any good SF that crosses it's path.Crusade, Firefly/Serenity, and nearly B5? I don't mention ST:Enterprise because that was killed by B&B. But I think that ST:E reinforces the argument since that pair of bafoons would have been permitted to keep things going for the standard 7 years if it wasn't so transparent that they couldn't tell a good idea if it slapped them in the face. And by that I do mean that ST:E's universe had the potential for good stories. It just wouldn't have worked with the ST franchise.
I wonder if there is some way, other than watching BSG as though it was a religion, of supporting The SciFi Channel. They are the only ones who are close to getting it in my opinion and had Crusade, or Firefly, or even ST:E found their original home on SciFi I think that they would have not only made it but in the case of ST:E I think that Manny Coto would have been on the staff a little earlier to save the show.
Just my $0.02
-- Chris
P.S. I'm here because I got the Crusade Boxed set for Christmas. After watching it again I've got to say that I find the show to have been so compromised as to be close to unwatchable.