Star Trek: Enterprise has been canceled

[Acid_crash]

I'm bummed. This show was getting so much better this season. Putting it on UPN was a death nail from the very beginning though. Looking at all the other shows and their focus Enterprise does not fit in with their schedule one bit. They should have just moved it to another station after this season.

I think what they should do is do something they have NOT done before. Have a Trek show focus on a different faction completely. Set it a few years after Nemesis, and focus the show entirely on the Klingons.

Having a Star Trek: Klingons show would be a great way to change the pace of the show. Change the focus from the Federation, put it on another race. Show the Klingon Empire, their cultures, and how they view things, their lives, etc.

Why does it have to be the Federation?

 

[Ranger REG]

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.

Ironic that Ron D. Moore is producing the re-imagined BSG which airs on the same night as this season's Enterprise run by Manny Coto.

 

[Ranger REG]

I thought the first season was decent for a new show and really showed some promise (minus the TCW stuff). The second and third season though...different story.

The first season wasn't decent, IMNSHO. The moment they showed a Klingon on Earth in the "Broken Bow" episode, I knew this is Braga's signature way of killing the show. You know what makes it worse for me personally? I gave him a second chance to prove me wrong after the VOY fiasco he made.

I never did see the season premier. What did happen to the TCW story line? Or should I ask?

Don't know if it concluded the TCW since we don't know who that mysterious villain, but we managed to witness of that Suliban ally. After that, we didn't go back to that again. Personally, I don't care if that will ever be concluded, I don't want to revisit the TCW arc.

 

[Ranger REG]

Bad news indeed, but like others, I'm not surprised. This was a long time coming. After the first couple of dreadful seasons, the improvement this season was definitely too late.

Is it truly too late? I mean you stated there is improvement this season.

 

[Ranger REG]

Having a Star Trek: Klingons show would be a great way to change the pace of the show. Change the focus from the Federation, put it on another race. Show the Klingon Empire, their cultures, and how they view things, their lives, etc.

Why does it have to be the Federation?

Sci-Fi shows that featured mainly aliens usually don't work, unless it's a comedy where the alien observe or experience human behaviors and foibles, like Third Rock from the Sun.

Even Roswell didn't fare well, having switched network and cancelled after three seasons.

You need to have human characters that can relate to human viewers.

 

[mojo1701]

Perhaps Trek does need a break, but maybe they should've gone the full 7 seasons. 3 more...

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I'm sad. The show had some great episodes and some real stinkers; I felt like I was going to get a surprise of some kind every episode, and just had to watch out for if it was good or bad.

IMO putting it back in time removed a lot of "magic wand" scenarios that I hated about TNG, DS9 and Voyager, but of course it caused continuity problems. The biggest one being the Vulcans... I simply couldn't stand them, especially T'pol. I would love to know why they chose such a good-looking woman to be a Vulcan series lead. They came up with all kinds of goofy ways to have her show off flesh and seduce Trip (in really stupid ways, too).

 

[Psychic Warrior]

You can picture me as the gopher from Caddyshack dancing away to the lustful strains of "I'm All Right".

Face it - Enterprise was awful. I love watching Trekkers defend it by saying 'well the first 3 seasons were bad but this fourth season; o-boy it's rockin'!". 3 years of crap and one year of not quite crap. And the only reason it lasted this long was because of the 'Star Trek' label smeared on its bloated, wart encrusted face.

Enterprise is dead. And good riddance.

 

[Ranger REG]

I love watching Trekkers defend it by saying 'well the first 3 seasons were bad but this fourth season; o-boy it's rockin'!". 3 years of crap and one year of not quite crap.

What do you mean "not quite crap"? I mean it's bad enough they're in a deep hole, you think they should pull out some kind of epic story to fly out? That's a stoopid and wrong approach for Trek, and you know it. They've been climbing out of the hole with good stories this season. Not epic, but good enough to impress even me, after those 3 years of crap. And I'm very hard to impress when it comes to Trek.

Nah. Someone said they're cancelling Trek as well as WWE Smackdown! (which have always done better rating because trailer park audience outnumbers sci-fi fans) because they want to change UPN's format.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Although the NG episodes haven't aged well. Having seen SG-1 since then has *really* raised my standards for writing, and NG just doesn't cut it any more.

This just goes to show how greatly tastes vary. When I think of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I think of:

Picard being tortured by Cardassians. "There. Are. FOUR. Lights!"

Picard returning to his brother's vinyard in France after being mentally raped by the Borg, and crawling in the mud, crying, at what they'd done to him.

Data creating a daughter for himself, only to watch her die when he is unable to save her from a critical malfunction.

And there are many more episodes besides those I've listed which were incredibly well-done. The writing on TNG has always been top-notch. And so has the acting.

In contrast, I've found SG-1 to be nothing short of a hack-job. Jack O'Neill doesn't have the leadership skills to guide a group of cub scouts through the service line at McDonalds, let alone command an "elite" expeditionary force across alien worlds, with the fate of the Earth on the line.

*shrug* Different strokes, I guess.

As for "Trek should take a break," well, I've had my break. Voyager and Enterprise were garbage, so I didn't watch them. I'm ready for a well-written, well-executed Star Trek series now. Or at least, as soon as possible.