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[athelind]

UPN Cancels Enterprise

UPN and Paramount Network Television jointly announced Feb. 2 that its low-rated Star Trek: Enterprise has been canceled after four seasons. "This will be the final season of Star Trek: Enterprise on UPN," the companies said. The series finale will air on May 13. When Star Trek: Enterprise ends its run, it will mark the first time since 1987 that no new Trek series will appear on the air.

Enterprise becomes the first Trek series to end prematurely since the original Star Trek aired on NBC in the 1960s. All previous Trek spinoff series, including The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, have completed seven-season runs.

This year, new executive producer Manny Coto re-energized Enterprise's storylines with episodes that hearkened back to the original series. Last year, the series attempted an ambitious season-long story arc centering on the hunt for the Xindi.

UPN said that the prequel series will have produced a total of 98 episodes. The early cancellation announcement presumably allows producers to write and produce a series finale.

Revelations I'd like to see in the Enterprise series finale:

• The entire series was an aberrant timeline caused by all the temporal meddling of that "Time War" (and all the time travel done in the previous Trek shows.
  
• It's just a really cheesy holodrama in the Voyager era, well-known for being about as historically accurate as Xena or Hercules.
  
• (Insert Your Idea Here.)

At some point, I should mention that despite my complaints about the Parallel Evolution of Ties, I'm finding the new Battelstar Galactica to be quite impressive, much more so than I would have expected from the miniseries. I'll have more on that later.

Comments

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

It's just a really cheesy holodrama in the Voyager era, well-known for being about as historically accurate as Xena or Hercules.

Best. Idea. EVAR.

How about that...

[tealfox.livejournal.com]

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19537

I love this entry:

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

I still like my proposed ending where Riker travels back in time for some reason (pick a reason... it's Trek) and ends up on the old Enterprise, trying to warn Archer and crew about a dastardly plot by the Romulans to weaken the Federation by setting it at war with the Klingons. And it all starts with the destruction of Enterprise by a misinformed Klingon commander. But the Enterprise crew doesn't believe him (especially when he talks about the Klingons being part of the Federation in the future) and they think he might be a genetically modified Klingon spy. Finally, T'Pol offfers to mind meld with him to see if he's telling the truth. But as she's in his head poking around, Riker discovers she's a Romulan spy sent on a suicide mission to ensure the destruction of the ship and the blaming of the Klingons. Turns out she's been subtly manipulating the Enterprise crew into fuck-up after fuck-up for years, trying to set the pieces in place for this catastrophic event. And as the ship starts to blow up around them, Riker screams while T'Pol laughs a very emotional and indulgent laugh. Then Riker wakes up in bed next to Troi and tells her about the dream. But all she wants him to do is: "Tell me more about this sexy Vulcan woman." And it doesn't even have to be a Newhart ripoff "it's a dream" ending. Q could show up after Riker gets back to sleep and tell him: "I don't know what's more alarming, that you utilized a portion of the Q powers I gave you and then stripped away to unconsciously travel back in time and change history or that it almost worked." I'd forgive the whole series if we got an ending like this.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

Yes. I'm finding myself more and more impressed with Battlestar Galactica myself. Alot of the cheese went away, replaced with some seriously though-provoking plot material.

Who would have thought I'd ever be talking about a space opera like that?

(Though I still hope they come up occasionally with scenes like the escape near the end of the second episode. I've never seen a better illustration of how truly deadly full-on capship barrages can be to fighters, and each other).

-- ArchTeryx

-- ArchTeryx

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

Hey! When Hercules was in its first few seasons, back before it went horribly wrong, it was a pretty good show! Xena...not so much.

[darkkdragon.livejournal.com]

Good riddence. Personally I liked Enterprise the least out of all the series.
Hmm, hopefully they will at least give it a proper burial.

*flips his VCR to record Battlestar Galactica*

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Bobby Ewing is going to step out of the shower and declare it all a bad dream brought upon by wossname, pizza and anchovies

[ssthisto.livejournal.com]

I've got to come at this from the point of view of someone who loved Voyager... and say that I watched maybe two episodes of Enterprise, and one particular one made me say 'This isn't in the Star Trek universe'... the one where they meet the Ferengi.

Started off with a good premise - that the Ferengi knock everyone on the ship out, and steal stuff. Maybe one person stays awake and catches a glimpse of one, but can't stop him... but not 'Oh, and by the way, the peoples of Earth actually met the Ferengi (and insert other alien races here for the rest of the series) long before Next Generation did.'

That glaring continuity problem (and the intro theme music, which isn't at ALL 'Star Trek') put me off the series entirely.

By comparison, I _refused_ to watch the pilot of Battlestar Galactica, because I didn't think I'd like it - I'm not a sci-fi fan, I'm not into 'war' type films, whatever excuse I gave... But when the guys decided they were going to watch the first episode of the new series, I got kind of dragged along for the ride... and I'm glad I did. I don't like the series. I LOVE it... and I didn't have the background of seeing the original series to taint my views on it, either. The season finale (which has already aired over here in the UK) is stuff to make you scream at the television until they do the second season. And if they _don't_ do a second season, it will be heresy on the order of having not done a second season of Kingdom Hospital.

[nexaris.livejournal.com]

I thought Enterprise was an okay series and seasons four was a definite improvement over the past three. In my opinion, however, I do have to agree with everyone that it really wasn't up to par with the others.

My personal favorite Trek series is Deep Space 9. I just ordered the DVDs two days ago.

As for the new Battlestar Galactica series, they're doing a great job with it though it's not my most favorite show on the Sci Fi channel. That spot is still reserved for Stargate SG-1. :)

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

So far I'm batting 2-0 with Galactica. I start off all interested and engaged in the story, and then suddenly the universe tilts sideways and an extra large helping of melodrama is served up, causing me to wander away from the television with the intention of returning shortly. But I never make it back in time for the Thrilling Non-Conclusion!. Better luck next week, maybe. . .