Martok, you did the best you could do with a stacked deck that was dealt you. IMO, Rybrandt was well aware of what one is up against when one gets forced to go this kind of route, in which the true measure of what TOS fandom thinks about wanting continuation stories can not possibly be measured by an on-line petition that the rank-and-file of TOS fandom can not easily find access to. He was trying to come up with something to say with a sham air of legitimacy that what they're doing is just fine and wonderful, and only a bunch of malcontents in need of a life think otherwise. That is IMO all that's been demonstrated here, and not that there isn't a groundswell of desire for continuation stories in this medium.
What Rybrandt and company should have the guts to do is *do* a continuation storyline and see what the reaction is from the audience, because *that* would be a true test of its potential and not what's happening in this way the cards were dealt.
And you are right, that other show should not be part of the equation when judging this. But let's not forget that Rybrandt and company were the ones who rather senselessly brought it into the mix to use as part of their justification for not doing a continuation storyline, and that doesn't speak well of them anymore than those who would use the petition as an occasion to reopen that debate again.
You are to be commended for having tried to take a step, and for that a well-earned salute (I can't get the icon to work!) from all of us.
