There is a very basic (and very stupid) question immediately in the heart of the animated MTV series in 1998 "Celebrity Death of Fame": Who would win the struggle? It was a series based very directly on the conversations held while Exceptional While talking about one's favorite/least favorite celebrities, and who would be the best to fight in hand. The "glorious death" visualizes such struggles in a well-organized, animated pro-dyeing, where celebrities could kill each other outside. For anyone who has ever taken a big rip and asked: "Do you think Marilyn Manson can take Charles Manson into a fight?

The series was created by Eric Vogel, who created the animated MTV seriesThe one broadcast with Maxx), and the couples that he and his writers invented were often ingenious. The fight between Penn and Teller and Sigfried and Roy is fun. Some felt as if they were allowing known pop cultural conflicts to actually resolve, like David Letterman against Jayei Leno or Spike Lee against Quentin Tarantino. There were political matches. Bill Clinton fought with Kenneth Star, and Hillary Clinton fought with Monica Levinsky. However, other team correspondence was only offensive. Dolly Parton vs. Ennenifer Lopez makes no sense on paper, until you realize that it is a "big breast" talk versus a "big butt". (The series has never made any claims to intelligence.)

However, some of the fighting made the perfect sense. Arnold Schwarzenegger against Sylvester Stallone is a competition that every action movie in the 80s can easily understand. Readers from the tabloids in the 1990s will surely get why Bruce Willis and Demi Moore would be drawn against Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

However, one obvious pairing has never happened. There was never an episode of "Celebrity Death" that surpassed Captain Kirk of "Star Trek" against Captain Picard of "Old Trek: Next Generation". On the web site of the animated world network in 2012Vogel explained very clearly why MTV avoided such an obvious match: its parent company did not allow it. What was strange, because the same parent owned the two franchises.

It should be noted that the show matches were completely unauthorized, presented under the auspices of satire. Celebrities were usually expressed by sound acousts, and it can be assumed that MTV took only any minimal legal precautions they needed to use similarities to a particular celebrity. Some celebrities refused to borrow their similarities on the road, of course, but since the show lasted an incredible 93 episodes (with three matches), the "glorious death of celebrities" was clearly able to easily bypass frequent litigation.

But in the case of "Star Trek", Vogel and the rest of the legal team of the show were given a strict decree. Indeed, Vogel said Paramount had completely dismissed him when he asked for Kirk's match against Picard. Paramount owned the rights of "Star Trek", though Paramon and MTV were, at the time, owned by Viacom, so the refusal was confusing. Also, Paramount has already made your own The Kirk-Pickard Film with "Star Trek: Generations". Vogel said it was one of the most enduring deductions he had ever received. He recalled the setup for the competition, writing:

"" The match was supposed to be displayed in our scientific spectacular and I am pretty sure that the training of the trays around the world would explode: Captain Kirk vs. Captain Picard. This match at the main event was far together in our pipelin, as I remember. I all remembered. The episode. "

Creski co-wrote several biographies of Shatner. It seemed that everything was ordered. Then, the people of Paramount called them and closed the whole episode.

But exactly when production was supposed to start, it was stopped. As Voogel remembered:

"And that is when Paramount pulled the plug. Viacom's sister company (which owns MTV networks), Paramount, was unhappy with us" f *** ing with their billion dollar franchise, "as they said. Pretty incredible, given that all and their mother. Our show. "

Things were obviously a little touching in Viamom for a while. The initial work of the "Celebrity Death" ended in 2001, but still had very bad blood in the company. All that bad blood contributed to the mass fracture of the company just a few years later. At the 2004 Super Bowl show, he could remember Etnet Acksecson and Justin Astinin Timberlake involved in the "wardrobe malfunction", with the key piece of Acksexone's house. Super Bowl aired on CBS, Viacom's subsidiary, but the show itself was produced by MTV. When the scandal broke up, the blame appeared around Viacom's audience, and the older company manager, Sumner Redston, decided to calm the companies for children who pushed them under special umbrellas. One company had CBS and all Paramount TV shows, while the other had pictures of MTV and Paramount.

The ironic thing? The Star Trek TV was owned by one company and other Star Trek films. Viamom may not have wanted the "glorious death of celebrities" to deceive "Star Trek", but the fight against the Super Bowl scandal proved that the company was insincere with Star Trek anyway. Companies would eventually get involved in 2019.