Enterprise - the last Star Trek Show

mr.wiggle

Myself and the kids are watching the box sets of this at the nmo. Just onto the last season, getting all sad thinking about it coming to an end...
Why in gods name did they cancel this show, it's bloody great !!!???

Elmo

mr.wiggle wrote: »

Myself and the kids are watching the box sets of this at the nmo. Just onto the last season, getting all sad thinking about it coming to an end...
Why in gods name did they cancel this show, it's bloody great !!!???

Partly down to UPN merging with The WB and they decided against Star Trek on the CW.

Can't see Star Trek returning to TV for a while unless CBS or the CW take it on board, and with the re-imaging of the movie franchise by Paramount.

_Kaiser_

mr.wiggle wrote: »

Why in gods name did they cancel this show, it's bloody great !!!???

Unfortunately the majority didn't agree and the ratings kept falling. Season 4 did pick things up a bit but by then it was too late...


Few other reasons [SPOILERS AHEAD]:
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- Trying to lure new fans by dropping the "Star Trek" name until season 3 was a bad move

- Introducing already established races (The Ferengi and the Borg) and expecting the fans to accept the contradiction to established cannon because "technically we never mentioned their names" :rolleyes:

- While TNG was guilty of this to an extent, Enterprise was all about the Archer, Trip and T'Pol storylines. Mayweather/Hoshi who??

- Ridiculous verging on soft-core "Decon" scenes :rolleyes:

- Really bad choice of lead actor in Scott Bakula. Everyone just expected Al (Dean Stockwell) to pop up, and guess what.. he did!!

- A temporal cold war storyline that didn't really go anywhere for 3 seasons until it was abandoned for the Xindi storyline which WAS an improvement but by then I think a lot of people (me included) had long since given up following the show on any sort of even semi-regular basis


SPOILERS (as you haven't seen season 4 yet)

- Nazi aliens?? :rolleyes:

- The 2 Mirror Universe episodes.. not because they were bad (they were actually very good!) but because the characters and plot were a hell of a lot more interesting than the "real" versions we sat through every week (side note: this storyline is continued in the books and is actually a very good read too)

- The god-awful ending!!! Even though I thought the show was extremely poor, it did deserve something more than the send-off it got.
Aside from the pointless killing of a main character (which itself is then even diminished less than 5 minutes later!), they spend the whole episode building up to Archer's speech at the inauguration of the Federation... and then Riker (who we're supposed to believe watched all this during the TNG Pegasus episode.. despite being - and looking! - a hell of a lot older and fatter) "end program"'s the thing just as Archer is about to start!!!

About the only good thing about that last episode/series WAS the final scene.. Enterprise-D never looked so good and at least we got to hear some REAL captains one final time!

Cybercelesta

I agree with the above poster, Enterprise didn't really kick-off until the 3rd season. I did like the Borg episode!

AdmiralRazor

Isn't it almost an unwritten cardinal rule of "Star Trek" that mirror/alternate versions of the main characters *must* be more interesting than their primary universe counterparts?

Case in point: TNG - "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Parallels"; DS9 - "Crossover", "The Visitor"; VOY - "Year of Hell", "Living Witness", "Timeless", "Author, Author"; ENT - "Twilight", "Through a Mirror, Darkly".