Star Trek Mission is a wrap. {SPOILER TALK}

[Truth Seeker]

R.Berman has written the final nail in the coffin, for this timeline of Enterprise. Judging from the report, provided by Zap2it article. The jump in years, at the decomission of the ship and the beginning of the Federation, ends any chance of picking where they left off, if the series was ever to be picked up again.

Yeah I know, some people don't care less about the whole thing...but me . For me, this is a slap in the face, and I know I am not the only one that feels that. Here is SyFy Editoral response to the whole ending, *they must seen something in advance*, that I never posted as news.
Warning:Some Vulgar language is in the write up.

 

[myrdden]

Meh...

Not much else to say...

Meh...

To be honest with it's impending demise and the huge break between episodes, I have all but lost my desire to watch the show.

Meh...

 

[Mark]

Typical of the folks who always villify Braga and Berman. I'm not saying that they don't deserve some of the blame, but they just make too convenient of a target. They went in a new direction (TCW - Full series arc), and some people didn't like it. They went in a different direction (Xindi - seasonal arcs), and some people didn't like it. They went in a back-to-the-roots kind of direction (mini arcs with, IMO, too many nods to the past series), and some people didn't like it (or claimed it was too little too late). It's just too easy to complain these days and with the power of the Internet make a loud minority opinion seem like a prevailing opinion (and then become a self-fulfilling prophetic slippery slope of negativism). It's a shame that Enterprise couldn't have done better when it began with so much promise on its premiere. I was certainly enjoying it, and willing to allow it to find its own legs without being an Internet-backseat producer. I think if it had one major fault it is that it allowed the those self-same wannabes to overly-influence their decisions. It's the waffling, IMO, and not the choices that spelled its eventual doom.

 

[myrdden]

Typical of the folks who always villify Braga and Berman. I'm not saying that they don't deserve some of the blame, but they just make too convenient of a target.

I'll agree with that. I think some of their ideas simply just didn't jive with many Trek fans. Personally the TCW and Xindi plots just didn't appeal to me at all. Under a different banner, they may have worked. But it certainly didn't work for me as a Trek series.

They went in a back-to-the-roots kind of direction (mini arcs with, IMO, too many nods to the past series), and some people didn't like it (or claimed it was too little too late).

I agree with the "too many nods comment". I defintiely got the sense that the writers were trying really hard to pick up the series, push it in yet another direction, and over emphasize its connection with TOS. I have to admit to falling in the "too little, too late" category. If this approach had been taken in the first or second season (easing up on the "nods" but maintaining the mini-arcs) I think the series would be fairing better than it is. But really whose to say...

It's a shame that Enterprise couldn't have done better when it began with so much promise on its premiere. I was certainly enjoying it, and willing to allow it to find its own legs without being an Internet-backseat producer.

Even with the TCW, I thought the first few episodes (and the first season as a whole) wasn't too bad. Unfortunately the quality in episodes would swing way to wildly with some being really great to others being quite bad. It's too bad the show went the way it did as I see a lot of lost potential. The TCW and Xindi plots were a waste of that potential in my mind. But of course YMMV...

I have been enjoying this season but when I think back, I would say less that half of the episodes from the first three seasons were really satisfying for me.

It's the waffling, IMO, and not the choices that spelled its eventual doom.

I'll disagree here. I think it was a disparity between what fans expected and what the producers were offering. Also I think the TV viewer in general has evolved in their viewing expectations from TNG and even VOY airings.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I've only caught an episode here and there since I had quit watching at the end of the first season. The ones I've seen seem to be not bad to pretty good, IMO. Anything they do now, may be construed as "too little too late" by the masses of Trek fans. They should've had a steady focus on the show from the very first episode. And kept to it. It's not like DS9 where they shifted the show to compete with Babylon 5.... There wasn't much out there to detract SF viewers a year ago. Now there's Battlestar Galactica which I gave up on as if you missed anything, you're completely lost. I didn't have that problem jumping in the middle of B5.

Yes, there's going to be inconsistencies between it and TOS. Mostly due to viewer differences in the past 30+ years between the two. That and the social picture has changed dramatically in that same timeframe and TV producers have to cater to the masses to try to get and keep the viewers for their shows.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Crap shows get cancelled. So do good ones too unfortuanately.

Enterprise from the lame theme song to the bad stories was doomed. It made somes strided this season, but I had already pretty much given up on it and didn't make much effort to watch it.