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...years after the original, introduced a new Enterprise crew and had a much bigger budget. But still there was turmoil: Roddenberry's insistence on rewriting scripts alienated many of the writers. Things settled down when Rick Berman, Roddenberry's 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...
There is more to a computer than its metaphor, of course. Charles Piller, author of The Fail-Safe Society, argues that it was the PC itself, not the so- called user interface, that drove the computer revolution. "The automobile altered society in fundamental ways," says Piller. "The automatic transmission did not." But it is not always clear where metaphor ends and reality begins. Linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest in Metaphors We Live By that when people accept a metaphor like "argument is war," with such attendant expressions as "attack a position" and "indefensible," it actually changes how they...
...faces from older series pop up: Enterprise captain Picard appears in the pilot, and another Enterprise crew member, Miles O'Brien, has transferred completely to become chief operations officer for Deep Space Nine. "The synergy between the shows will become immediately obvious," says the other co-executive producer, Michael Piller...
...Herrnstein confrontation was the perfect situation allowing the Administration to pin us against the wall and take away our status," Piller added...
...Piller, a sophomore at Iowa, said last night. "There is not one of 20,000 students here that has not at least heard of the Herrnstein issue and our protest against his ideas is having a tremendous effect on people and colleges all over the state...