UPN Cancels Star Trek: Enterprise

[Enraged_Ape]

Star Trek: Enterprise will come to an end following the airing of an as yet untitled series finale on May the 13th, 2005.

UPN and Paramount today jointly announced the show's cancellation. "Star Trek has been an important part of UPN's history, and Enterprise has carried on the tradition of its predecessors with great distinction," UPN Entertainment president Dawn Ostroff said. "We'd like to thank Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and an incredibly talented cast for creating an engaging, new dimension to the Star Trek universe on UPN, and we look forward to working with them, and our partners at Paramount Network Television, on a send-off that salutes its contributions to The Network and satisfies its loyal viewers."

Paramount Network Television president David Stapf added, "The creators, stars and crew of Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their contributions to the legacy of Trek and commend them on completing nearly 100 exciting, dramatic and visually stunning episodes. All of us at Paramount warmly bid goodbye to Enterprise, and we all look forward to a new chapter of this enduring franchise in the future."

TrekToday sources report that CBS president Les Moonves himself yesterday reached the decision to pull the plug on Enterprise. Most Enterprise crew members only found out about their show's cancellation this morning.

For more gory details:

http://www.trektoday.com/news/020205_04.shtml

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It's about time, is all I can say. I told you they needed to get rid of the Tommy Lee Jones impersonator. No one ever listens to me.

I know some of you fans are disappointed. All I can say is that this is a good thing. This franchise needs a rest, then new producers/writers who know what the heck they're doing to bring it back. Berman, Braga, and company need to move on to something more on their level...like an "American Idol" kind of show.

[Ravenseye]

1. Sorry, This Sucks

I agree that Scott Bakula for some reason had 2 emotions on the show. Confused and Angry, and Just Plain Angry.

It's gotten so much better this season. They're cancelling it based on the fact that it had problems getting off the ground.

I don't know. Sci-Fi fans really fucking piss me off sometimes. We're all suck dreamers that unless a show is EXACTLY like we'd want it to be we get all pissy.

There's so little sci-fi on tv today. I'm not satisified with SG-1, SG-A, and BSG. That's not enough. Plus Enterprise also was on Friday. Every good show that's come on has failed becuase not enough sci-fi fans climb on board.

I like STE better than any Star Trek incarnation since TNG. This season at least.

What the hell are they going to do next? How long will that take? Why can't we have more than 2 or 3 sci-fi shows on tv at once.

[Enraged_Ape]

3. This too shall pass, Ravenseye

As a HUGE Star Trek fan since I was old enough to watch TV, I don't see this as being anything but a needed thing. Fortunately, unlike other good SF series that have been terminated before their time (e.g., Farscape, Firefly), there's still plenty of material around on tape or DVD to keep us going while waiting for the franchise's eventual resurrection. And it will be resurrected, I assure you.

The Star Trek franchise has long been mired in "Well, I can just restructure the positron flow in the forward warp coupling to allow for a repolarization of the phasers to defeat the enemy shields" mechanics that are somehow mistaken for plot elements. The hard-core fans have grown to accept and even love this kind of stuff, but unfortunately the rest of us are left out in the cold. I really think the show needs a break, and a chance for fresh minds and new storytellers to become involved.

[Ravenseye]

8. Yes Sensei

*bows head*

but seriously. I'm not saying a break and fresh minds wouldn't do good things for the franchise. I just really was feeling the show this season. Seemed like they had turned the corner and were really starting to get strong again.

[Enraged_Ape]

9. A lot of people liked it better this season

It's too bad they didn't realize that things were going wrong before they had three seasons under their belts.

At least you will get one good season out of the show, and they will have a chance to wrap it up well. (I hope they take it.) There is nothing worse than when a show is yanked without a wrap-up, and that seems to happen to good science-fiction shows all the time.

[FM Arouet666]

13. Fucking Ditto

I missed STE up until this season, and then got hooked. Now the damn show has been canceled. I think it is a mistake to cancel given the power of this season. A great loss.

[Beetwasher]

2. Bummer, Just When It Was Starting To Really Take Off

At least it seems they will have enough time to end it properly though...

[wyldwolf]

4. We should petition SciFi to pick it up

[rogue emissary]

5. If this is true, it sucks big time!

Speaking as a fan of Enterprise, it'll be the last new trek I'll watch. Fans should boycott any future incarnation, to demonstrate how much we loved it. Of course I seriously doubt they'll do another series. I'll also stop watching UPN, which isn't too big of a sacrifice.:D I hope they let Coto do the final episode.

[Enraged_Ape]

7. The final episode is being written by...Berman and Braga!!

Or so the word on the street is.

Seriously, the Star Trek thing needs to go on a long vacation (maybe 5-10 years) until these two bozos are heavily involved in some other projects (like bringing Bewitched back to TV or something). Then Star Trek can be rebirthed in the true Roddenberry spirit, by people who care.

[rogue emissary]

11. The hits just keep on coming.

I'm not a fan of the Berman & Braga writing team, but I don't blame them for the demise. In five or ten years, if it came back it would be something I'd hate or not care about. Since they ended it, I say let it end. :(

[Orsino]

12. I'm unlikely to watch...

...whatever crap UPN comes up with to replace Enterprise, as I'd all but given up on broadcast TV years ago.

I agree that this was the best Trek since TNG. While I enjoyed a lot of DS9 and even some Voyager, Enterprise displayed little or no goofy melodrama that has plagued every other series. I really enjoy all the space suits and shuttle pods that connect Archer's lower-tech era to ours, and make even the most ridiculous deus ex machina plot devices more plausible.

There are no half-breeds or androids cluttering up the stories with all that angst. Enterprise is a more serious Trek of human dimensions.

I still think they shoulda named the series Prime Directive, as just about every episode underscored the need for that regulation. This crew's good enough to have received a less worn-out name for their ship; that's a point on which I believe the producers didn't trust us.

The shameless pimping of Park and Blalock, though, and the hailing-frequencies-open sidelining of Montgomery's character earned them a *lot* of bad karma.

[rogue emissary]

15. The pimping of Park and Blalock was inexcusable. n/t

[Technowitch]

16. Agreed. And I'm sick to death of "babes in skintight catsuits"

It makes ZERO 'logical' sense for T'Pol to be wearing something so impractical and distracting to her heterosexual human male crewmates (and any lesbians who might possibly be stowed away onboard... dunno though because the GLBT contingent seems conspicuously absent in the entire Trek universe).

So T'Pol joined Starfleet this last season? Put her in a damned uniform like everybody else's.

Of course, I had the same problem with Seven-of-Nine. Hotter than hell, she was, but as a former Borg, she should have recognized that her ridiculously oversexed appearance was "negatively impacting the efficiency and functioning of her new crewmates".

Oh well...

[rogue emissary]

17. I think in 'Twilight' she wore a Starfleet uniform.

It doesn't make sense that they didn't let her continue to wear it this season.

[Technowitch]

18. Reasoning for that was she'd been promoted to Captain of the NX-01

But I agree. She looked fine in the Starfleet jumpsuit -- they should've left her in it, the same way Ronny Cox (Captain Jellico) on TNG finally got Troi into a proper uniform.

I loved the way Jellico bit her head off for wearing civvies all the time.

[rogue emissary]

19. Same here . . .

Jellico's "I like a certain formality on my bridge" was priceless.

[TheDebbieDee]

20. That's one of my favorite TNG scenes.......

"And get that damn fish out of my "Ready Room!"

[Endangered Specie]

6. Noooooo!

[NewJeffCT]

10. As I posted in the Lounge...

As I posted in the Lounge, I watched just about every episode of Next Generation, DS9 and Voyager as they were broadcast originally. For some reason, Enterprise just never inspired me to watch it, despite Bakula & two hot babes in Blalock and Hoshi.

[FM Arouet666]

14. Try and save the series

The link below is off Star Trek dot com. It is worth a shot, TOS was canceled in season two, but was revived because of fan support.




http://boards.startrek.com/community/messages.html?s=14759cfc090150b044ebe607f34e454d

Go to the STE forum and How to save STE. They list a number of execs to write to. I gave it shot, we have nothing to lose, except the series.