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What this all means? With four more non-league games, the Crimson have some time to get the house in order for the paramount lvy schedule...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: M. Basketball Challenges Lehigh | 12/10/1994 | See Source »

...concealed offensive on Black students at Harvard. But then again, the official position at the paper was that such "vague and flexible standards of 'offensiveness'" should not be the basis upon which students, faculty members or administrators feel "repressed." "Free speech, "The Crimson's staff wrote, "must be paramount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Is No Friend of Black People | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...three seasons and 79 episodes were just enough to put the show's reruns into syndication, and there they were an enormous hit. By the end of the '70s, the success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind had prompted Paramount to give its TV space crew a crack at the big screen. Star Trek: The Motion Picture displeased hard-core fans. But it made a sturdy $82 million at the box office and launched a series of films that peaked in 1986 with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which grossed $110 million. Only Roddenberry felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...second-in- command, and co-executive producer Michael Piller took control. The show soon hit its stride, with an accomplished cast, better special effects and some of the most imaginative sci-fi writing ever for TV. The series was ended last May, at the height of its popularity, because Paramount wanted to switch it to the big screen exclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

None of which will matter much if the film is, as expected, a big hit. Then all that Paramount will have to worry about is trying not to squeeze too much out of its cash cow. The studio plans to produce a new feature film every two years, while keeping two TV shows running simultaneously. "Star Trek will do fine if they don't kill the goose," says Barrett Roddenberry. Berman acknowledges the danger: "There's always the question about taking too many trips to the well, and one of the tasks Roddenberry left me with was at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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