Star Trek: Enterprise has been canceled

[Darrin Drader]

As much as I loved Next Generation, I think the farther they moved away from James T. Kirk, the Enterprise (1701), and the Federation, the more watered down the franchise became. It lived a good life. I'm not sad.

There is supposed to be a live action Star Wars TV series coming in a year or so. Between that and the new Battlestar Galactica, scifi will continue to live on.

 

[Ghostwind]

Damn. Another show I liked cancelled. No wonder I rarely watch television programming anymore.

 

[DaveMage]

I'll miss the show because since B-5 left the air, it's been the only sci-fi show I've been interested in.

However, I think it was a mistake to go prequel. Gene Roddenberry was all about the *future* and to put a series in the (relative) past kind of took the "what happens next" mystery out of things.

Should Star Trek ever resurface on TV, I think it would need to be set in TNG's time, a few years after the events in "Nemesis." They could kick it off with Picard's retirement or somesuch. However, they should bring in a JMS-type who will give the show a kick in the pants, and change the style a bit. Otherwise it may not get any more attention than it is currently.

Either way, I'm looking forward to the remainder of the Enterprise season.

(Of course, the real reason the show didn't succeed was that god-awful song in the opening credits. )

 

[Orius]

I think it's a shame too, but I'm not really surprised. At least this last season had some good episodes.

I still say a lot of it's UPN's fault too. Star Trek should have stayed on syndication where Roddenberry put it. He got burned by networks twice, and learned his lesson. Let's hope Berman has learned the lesson now too. Sci-Fi rarely succeeds on network TV. And when you got a wannabe network like UPN that doesn't even have affiliates in many parts of the country, well of course ratings will suck. It didn't help that UPN found a programing niche that didn't really have a place for Star Trek. What did they expect?

I think the big problem is the whole TCW idea they started out with. Fans didn't connect. They were expecting prequel material and we only started getting that in ernest this season.

 

[John Crichton]

I am dually dissappointed and happy.

The show was finally starting to really entertain me. Watching 3 seasons of sub-par Trek was finally paying off. Coto and the writers got back to basics and started to make it feel like a real show. I hope that it goes off the air with a bang. I will miss it.

On the other hand...

Even before Enterprise started I was calling for a break. No Trek for at least 5 years, maybe more. No movies, no TV, nothing. Give the fans a break and let the desire for Trek start to build. Make some anticipation. Fire the shmucks currently in charge. Release some videogames and novels to keep the hard-core folks happy.

Then after enough time has passed start to work on a new project but try and keep it hush-hush (as much as possible these days). Get back to the roots of the show by setting it on the Enterprise. Get an actor with some chops to play the captain, maybe someone with established cred. It all flows around him. Set it 2-3 generations after TNG. Then hit us with a war. Make it the Klingons or some other established race. End the war within the first season or so. Slowly introduce a new threat while peace is being re-established. Get back some of the exploration aspects at this point. Then hit us with another war. Something that actually breaks the Federation. Have the rest of the series pick up the pieces and fight back.

No time travel (even though I love it in general as a theme), no elaborate gimmick like "we have to get home" or somesuch. Just flat-out Trek. Do it in story arcs like late DS9 and this season's Enterprise.

Oh yeah, and get Jeff Combs to play either a regular cast member or one of the Big Bads.

Is this too much to ask?

 

[Ranger REG]

This kind of sucks. I don't get UPN and only got to see 2 episodes of Enterprise. While they weren't the greatest things in the world, they didn't suck like, say, Voyager. Honestly, I can't imagine how that show lasted.

For the first three seasons it did suck like VOY (at least the latter seasons, when Rick Berman hired Brannon Braga as replacement executive producers).

Though their names are still there, they put Manny Coto in charge of this season's story lineup. He managed to quickly conclude the gawd-awful story arc of the third season, and put some good thoughtful stories this fourth season. It convinced me enough to like it. Had you asked me a year ago, and I'd would have agreed with Viacom's Chief Les Moonves's today's decision, but now I liked it.

Now I have no choice but to "persuade" Les Moonves to change his mind, or hope his "replacement" will reverse the decision.

 

[Ranger REG]

Oh yeah, and get Jeff Combs to play either a regular cast member or one of the Big Bads.

Are you kidding me? I like him as Shran the Andorian. I also like him as Quark's Ferengi rival, Brunt.

 

[Allanon]

Great and good riddance. Enterprise was to Star Trek what Episode 1 was to Star Wars. A nice try with great eyecandy but a bad story and horrible acting.

 

[John Crichton]

Are you kidding me? I like him as Shran the Andorian. I also like him as Quark's Ferengi rival, Brunt.

I kid you not. Combs is awesome.

I just had another idea: A Garak spin-off. It would work. Seriously.

Star Trek: Tailor Assassin

 

[qstor]

I think its very bad news. The show was just getting good with Cottos writing and the Stevens writing. Berman hasnt been good for the show. maybe Ronald Moore and Cotto can save Trek.

Mike