Star Trek: Enterprise has been canceled

[Ranger REG]

Apparently, since the show was cancelled and the most recent episode had the lowest ratings yet for Enterprise.

So, the reason for the cancellation rested on the most recent episode's lowest rating? Why didn't they cancel the series sooner, when they didn't hire Manny Coto? The last 3 seasons were the worst, even for me! Why didn't they cancel it then? Manny Coto didn't make it worse, Dumb & Dumber did!!!

I thought I could not hate anyone more than B&B. Now I do: Les Moonves.

 

[Umbran]

I am glad to give it a break, some time to recharge and get new ideas.

The flaw in this position is quite simple - if you rely on a specific single person or small group to do all the writing, then they may need a rest in order to get some new ideas. So, a single author might need to take a break after writing three novels in a series, yes. But Trek isn't dependant on any one particular person.

You can hire new writers and producers, and have instant new ideas. I think Manny Coto's performance this season proves that you don't need time to get fresh ideas and solid writing. You just need the right people in the right chairs.

 

[Ahnehnois]

I like the improved Enterprise this season and I'm disappointed at its cancellation, but it's hard to blame the execs for doing it. The ratings just aren't there. More people should be watching, but they aren't.

Star Trek is not dead. DS9 proved post-Roddenberry Trek was possible. It was a completely original and different series, but it was still Trek, and it was great TV.

This "break" talk is nonsense. Trek doesn't need a break. Now that the new, betterise is gone, it needs a new show. Preferably moving the Trek timeline forward. And with the right people at the helm.

Without Trek, there would be no sci-fi as we know it. Without Trek, there won't be a single show on network TV that occurs in space (as far as I know anyway). We need Trek, but we need Trek done right.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Without Trek, there would be no sci-fi as we know it. Without Trek, there won't be a single show on network TV that occurs in space (as far as I know anyway). We need Trek, but we need Trek done right.

An overstatement of the facts. Like Tolkien is incredibly important to fantasy, Star Trek is incredibly important to space opera. However, your statement just isn't true. Star Wars -- which was developed mostly from fairy tales, not sci-fi -- proved that sci-fi, or at least what the general public thinks is sci-fi, can be profitable. Star Trek the movie only had a chance after Star Wars was made. TNG only had a chance after *that* was profitable.

Important to sci-fi television? Yes, very. Indispensible? No.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Without Trek, there would be no sci-fi as we know it. Without Trek, there won't be a single show on network TV that occurs in space (as far as I know anyway). We need Trek, but we need Trek done right.

Battlestar Galactica.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Battlestar Galactica.

That, too!

 

[Urklore]

If they do another series, they should do one focused around a different race. A series based on the Klingon race would rock as ratings show that everytime an ep involves Klingons it gets high ratings. Just my 3 cents of course.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I was really looking forward to Enterprise... Then I watched it and... well, it wasn't good.

In plain fact it was bad, very bad. All the problems that I have with science fiction shows wrapped up with a ribbon. Whey the heck can't they get decent writers for most S.F. shows? The last one I enjoyed was B5, and even there the first and last seasons weren't exactly great. (Though the other seasons were!)

The Auld Grump

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Whey the heck can't they get decent writers for most S.F. shows? The last one I enjoyed was B5, and even there the first and last seasons weren't exactly great.

Battlestar Galactica.

 

[Umbran]

Whey the heck can't they get decent writers for most S.F. shows?

Well, I think there's a few things going here...

First, really good writers are not the most common things around. You have to hunt them up, and find the right venue for them - a person who is a great writer for a mundane prime-time drama may not be suited for a genre show, and vice versa.

Then comes the simple fact that the writers are not necessarily at fault for everything. Producers and network execs have a great deal of influence on what goes into a show. And sometimes they don't know what they are talking about.

Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Babylon 5 and B5: Crusade, Farscape and Firefly all showed the figerprints of meddling (in various ways) by non-writers that cost the shows dearly. So, don't lay everything on the writers.