Star Trek: Enterprise has been canceled

[myrdden]

The "Why Klingons have flat foreheads" arc, the mirror-universe 2-parter, and the whole convoluted Trip/T'Pol bond & baby thing prove that at least the show will go out on a high note and I won't be the only one sorry to see it go.

And this is why I prefer not to know what's coming ahead. None of those story lines really make me go "Yippee" and quite frankly a mirror-univers story line is far too much a blatant rip-off from TOS IMO. Regardless of how it may turn out.

 

[MaxKaladin]

I rather like Stargate. It does occur to me that RDA shouldn't be playing the special forces guy. With his sarcastic attitude, I'd think he should have been cast in some sort of civilian role -- perhaps a McKay type.

I liked Enterprise when it was new, then I moved where I couldn't get UPN and missed the last three seasons. One thing I did observe was that the pilot episode seemed to have a really cool '50s Sci-Fi vibe in places that reminded me of the original pilot to ST:TOS. I was sad to see them drift away from that in future episodes. I liked the characters but I didn't care much for the temporal cold war plot. I wish they had found different things to do with the crew.

Still, I considered it to be middle of the road Sci-Fi. It's not like it's Buck Rogers or something like that.

 

[David Howery]

I keep thinking just how neat Enterprise would have been if the current writers had been there from the very beginning, tying in this series with the others and ignoring the whole TCW thing. Even if UPN had still only contracted for 4 seasons, we'd have had 4 good seasons instead of 3 bad ones and 1 good one. There would have been time for all the story arcs presented this year, plus the upcoming Romulan war, etc....

 

[Henry]

And there is only one true Star Trek episode, "Spock's Brain."

*Waves hand in front of Ranger REG's face like a jedi master*

"There was no season 3."

*departs*

 

[Ranger REG]

Here's where I stand on the sci-fi thing:

DS9 and VOY are what I consider low-points in the Star Trek saga. Both were generally more entertaining than whatever else was on TV at the time, simply because of genre, but I could never get into either one. They were just boring.

How dare you clump DS9 with VOY?!?!!!

VOY is mega-crap!!! DS9 excels over that!!! DS9 has better story and character development than most of the contemporary Trek series I've seen, and they do that mostly on deep space station.

You poor, misguided alcoholic beverage.

Enterprise? It's the only Trek series since TOS where I've been able to stomach most of the episodes. I LIKED Enterprise. Still do. Good characters (Archer & Phlox somewhat, but especially Trip & T'Pol) make the show, and I'll be sorely disappointed if the Save Enterprise campaign fails as badly as the Save Farscape campaign did (which is likely, so I suppose I have sore disappointment to look forward to). On the plus side, everything I've heard about the upcoming episodes sounds very, very good and once the show gets past the admittedly marginal Andorian/Tellerite/Romulan arc, it's shaping up to be some of the best trek since TNG. The "Why Klingons have flat foreheads" arc, the mirror-universe 2-parter, and the whole convoluted Trip/T'Pol bond & baby thing prove that at least the show will go out on a high note and I won't be the only one sorry to see it go.

With the exception of this fourth season, how can you actually like Enterprise when it is run by the same two executive producers of VOY????

For the first three seasons of Enterprise, I see the same repeated ... Braga's trick ... I have seen on VOY. It's nowhere near TOS, and this is supposed to be a prequel. The only bright light is the appearance of Andorians, but that is not often used. The recent story arcs had more episodes about the Andorians in one season than the past three seasons combined.

I'm sorry for the cast. I like them, despite critics blasting Bakula's performance. But honestly, no matter how good the cast are, it's the story that matter. And Braga doesn't have that creative juice anymore.

 

[Ranger REG]

*Waves hand in front of Ranger REG's face like a jedi master*

"There was no season 3."

*departs*

* dispels and dismisses *

Yes, there is. "The Enterprise Incident" (Kirk & Co. stole a Romulan Cloaking Device), "The Tholian Web" (first appearance of the Tholian), and "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (a sci-fi spin on racism issue) are among the best episodes of Season 3.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

How dare you clump DS9 with VOY?!?!!!

VOY is mega-crap!!! DS9 excels over that!!! DS9 has better story and character development than most of the contemporary Trek series I've seen, and they do that mostly on deep space station.

You poor, misguided alcoholic beverage.

It only goes to show that tastes vary. DS9, as a whole, is my favorite Star Trek of them all. It combines all the best elements of TOS and TNG, as well as providing season- and series-long story arcs that were more prominent and well-developed than anything we'd seen before. It touched on religion and politics and moral ambiguity, all the while not losing what it means to be Star Trek.

Garak, Quark, Gul Ducat, Kai Wyn... There was so much richness to even the secondary characters on DS9.

Absolutely fantastic.

But as I said, obviously opinions vary.

 

[Orius]

* dispels and dismisses *

Yes, there is. "The Enterprise Incident" (Kirk & Co. stole a Romulan Cloaking Device), "The Tholian Web" (first appearance of the Tholian), and "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (a sci-fi spin on racism issue) are among the best episodes of Season 3.

And yet Season 3 also gave us such turds as "Spock's Brain" (dumb girl puts on helmet, becomes super smart and steals Spock's brain to run the computer running the planet), "And the Children Shall Lead" (a ghost kills the parents of a bunch of kids, and then uses those kids to try to take over the Enterprise), and "The Way to Eden" (space hippies hijack the Enterprise and take it to a "paradise" planet loaded with acidic and poisonous vegetation)

And while "The Tholian Web" was kind of cool in it's own way, "Day of the Dove" (entity forces Enterprise crew and Klingons to fight because it feeds on hatred and violence) is a much cooler episode.

 

[Ranger REG]

And yet Season 3 also gave us such turds as "Spock's Brain" (dumb girl puts on helmet, becomes super smart and steals Spock's brain to run the computer running the planet),...

Yes, I've already mentioned that episode on Post #119.

 

[Silver Moon]

Garak, Gul Ducat, Kai Wyn... There was so much richness to even the secondary characters on DS9.

That's an understatement. No other Trek even came close. TNG had some very memorable non-regulars but very few were recurring. I loved that fact that DS9 even managed to pull off an excellent 7th Season episode where none of the three main characters (Rom, Nog and Vic Fontaine) were even named in the title credits.