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Moonves Says CBS Is Open To Fan-Generated Ideas
June 20 - Retro Review: Disaster
Troi must take command of the ship while Picard struggles to work with three children and Worf delivers Keiko's baby.

June 6 - Retro Review: Silicon Avatar
A scientist pursuing the Crystalline Entity discovers that Data's brain holds her son's memories.

May 30 - Retro Review: Ensign Ro
A court-martialed Starfleet officer from occupied Bajor is sent to help locate a terrorist leader.

May 23 - Retro Review: Darmok
Picard is exiled with the leader of an alien race who speaks in incomprehensible metaphors.

May 15 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part Two
Picard discovers that Tasha Yar's Romulan daughter is influencing the Klingon civil war.

May 9 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part One
When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation, Worf resigns from Starfleet to fight against the Duras family.

May 2 - Retro Review: In Theory
Data creates a romantic subroutine to experiment with love.

Apr 24 - Retro Review: The Mind's Eye
LaForge is kidnapped and altered by Romulans to take part in an assassination plot against a Klingon governor.

Apr 17 - Retro Review: The Host
Crusher falls in love with a Trill, only to discover that his real personality exists in a small symbiont living inside his body.

Apr 11 - Retro Review: Half a Life
A visiting scientist falls in love with Lwaxana Troi, then reveals that he is expected to commit ritual suicide.

Mar 28 - Retro Review: The Drumhead
A famous Starfleet admiral leads a hunt for a traitor aboard the Enterprise.

Mar 20 - Retro Review: Qpid
In the middle of an archaeology conference, Q turns Picard and crew into Robin Hood and his merry men.

Mar 13 - Retro Review: The Nth Degree
After an encounter with an alien probe, Lieutenant Barclay develops super-human intelligence.

Mar 6 - Retro Review: Identity Crisis
LaForge learns that every officer on an away mission to Tarchannen Three years earlier has begun to transform.

Feb 28 - Retro Review: Night Terrors
The crew is trapped in a rift in space where lack of dreams causes psychosis.

 
By Michelle
January 16, 2007 - 10:19 PM

CBS announced plans last week to build a virtual Star Trek environment in Second Life, with the possibility of tapping into consumer-generated story ideas for future Star Trek productions.

CBS President and Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said in an address in Las Vegas that the company had made deals with both YouTube and Second Life to "extend the digital and interactive reach of our world-class assets" and build connections with the audiences that use new media, according to MarketWatch.

In addition, noted The Associated Press, the company is showing unprecedented openness in allowing snippets of its shows to be shown and "mashed" on the web. Moonves said that CBS would embrace technology that would allow viewers to take clips and re-edit them, something fans of Star Trek and other series have been doing for many years in making musical songvids and convention clip shows.

"If somebody spends the time to take 20 clips from 'CSI Miami,' I think that's wonderful," Moonves told a reporter. "That only makes him more involved with my show and want to come to CBS on Monday night and watch my show. And we're going to get paid for the clips this guy takes off our air as well. It's win, win."

Moonves said that his wife, Julie Chen, was partly responsible for his recognition of the value of audience-repackaged content. "You know what that meant?" he asked. "[The fans] were involved, they were watching, they were having fun with our content." And it drew in additional audience members.

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