Add It Up March 03 2005
Trekkies to the rescue
Amount “Star Trek” fans are trying to raise to keep the recently canceled “Enterprise” on the air ... $32 million
Amount they’ve raised so far ... $3,065,000
Largest single donation ... $3 million
Approximate hours of psychotherapy $3 million could buy ... 24,000
Days it will take Trekkies to raise $32 million at their current rate ... 102
Days before UPN, the channel that airs “Enterprise,” tears down the show’s sets ... 3
Cost incurred by SaveEnterprise.com, after discount, to run a full-page ad in The Los Angeles Times ... $15,900
Full-price cost of the ad ... $35,000
Number of episodes of the original “Star Trek” series that NBC ran in response to a 1968 letter-writing campaign to save the show .................. 24
Minimum number of people who attended Dragon*Con 2004, the Atlanta-based sci-fi convention ... 20,000
Number of other U.S. sci-fi conventions to draw more than 20,000 people, according to Dragon*Con ... 0
SOURCES: SaveEnterprise.com, EnterpriseProject.org, www.sfi.org, www.dragoncon.org??