Interview with Julie Gormly
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| Title: | Interview with Julie Gormly |
| Interviewer: | Susan P. Batho |
| Interviewee: | Julie Gormly |
| Date(s): | March 19, 2003 |
| Medium: | online as PDF |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek |
| External Links: | effect of commercialisation and direct intervention by the owners of intellectual copyright : a case study : the Australian Star Trek fan community by Susan Batho (2009) |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Julie Gormly was interviewed at Acacia Ridge QLD.
The interview was included in an academic paper by Susan P. Batho which addresses the effect of the Viacom Crackdown, TPTB, and Australian fandom.
Part of a Series
- Interview with Susan Batho
- Interview with Geoff Allshorn
- Interview with Julie Gormly
- Interview with Ruth Collerson and Joanne Kerr
- Interview with Shayne C. McCormack
- Interview with Ian McLean
- Interview with Tricia McKinlay
- Interview with Rose Mitchell
- Interview with Regina
- Interview with Jim Rondeau
- Interview with Derek and Sharon Screen
- Interview with Rachel Shave
- Interview with Nikki White
- Interview with Donna Hanson
- Interview with Bob Miller
- Interview with William Hupe
- Interview with Dr. Ann Hupe
- Interview with Fern Clarke and Jodi Williams
Excerpts
I think 'real' fans (those active in fandom) generally feel they are treated as a joke [Trekkies] and would like to be considered a little more in decisions made by the franchise owners. We often hear that it's the merchandising, rather than the show itself, which makes most of the money. Who do they think buys all the merchandise? Non-fans, perhaps?
Mostly I've felt somewhat annoyed at the attitude of the studios/franchise owners/tv stations and saddened by some of the things they have done both to the actors/writers/creative people involved in the show and with their general lack of respect for fans and for the show itself. Examples of this is the fact that there's so much merchandise which is below par - especially the novels which, throughout the 70a and 80s tended to be of reasonable, even high, quality. Recent books have made such gross and, to fans, unreasonable and incomprehensible errors as using the wrong names for major characters! Let alone making a hash of characterisations. The way some of the actors have been treated (eg how Terry Farrell [Dax] was treated when she was sacked) and behind the scenes people like Richard Arnold who was barred from the studio immediately after Gene Roddenberry's death, makes me feel some animosity towards the studios.