Sigh. It wasn’t the best Trek by any means but it was improving by leaps and bounds over the past two years and was easily better than Voyager, a series that went its full seven seasons on the same station, ever thought of being.
That it’s being cancelled so late in the game won’t even give the writers enough time to give it a proper send-off either.
While I realize a lot of people, many Trekkies included, don’t like the show at all, I’m still going to miss it and am infuriated by the decision to let it go, especially when the station has nothing else on it that pulls respectable numbers except for the idiotic America’s Next Top Model bullshit.
At least it lasted longer than the original series. <sigh> This is partly my fault…I’m pretty much never home in the early evening during the week. I used to catch the show on Saturdays, but since my local UPN station moved the repeats around, I never do anymore.
I doubt we’ll see it on Spike as their treatment of DS9 makes it clear that they don’t particularly care about the franchise sans TNG.
I don’t even know why Spike has any Trek on it in the first place. It doesn’t exactly fit in with pro wrestling, James Bond, Japanese game shows, and 80s action movies.
Kinda sucks - even the craptastic theme song was starting to grow on me. This might be the final nail in the franchise’s coffin, thanks to Berman and Braga.
I just recently started watching the show - the first one with Data’s ancestor was the first one I’d seen, and I was kinda getting into it. That sucks.
At least I’ll still get to find out what happens with the RC Romulan spaceship that looks like the gooberfish from TPM.
I got the impression that Spike is trying to make Star Trek appear more “sexy” based on their “the women of star trek” ads. I did think that trek seemed a bit out of place for this network.
Spike wanted to corner the geek guy market. The Sci-Fi Channel wasn’t doing it at all.
I find Enterprise to be less than engaging for some reason. It has no memorable breakout characters like Spock, Bones, Worf, Data, the first Dax, the Doctor or Seven of Nine. And the plots were much less than innovative. It is well that it has to go.
Is there any particular reason why this show was canceled? I had a UPN sales rep give a presentation to one of my marketing classes last year and he said that Enterprise was their most watched show by their target male demographic (America’s Top Model held the target female demographic). Maybe the show was too costly? Or the network is taking another direction? It just seems bizarre.
It doesn’t matter if the show is their highest rated if it’s also their most expensive. A show that pulls in 30% more ad dollars will be a loser even compared to a program that draws half the audience but costs twice as much to produce.
Speaking for myself, I saw this as pretty much inevitable, and while it’ll be disappointing in the short term there are some major organizational problems behind the scenes that need to get worked out. If not having Trek on the air for two years or five is what it takes to get the Bermaga out and completely revamp the artistic environment, that will be a positive step in the long run. Yes, the show was displaying signs of creative life recently, but it’s pretty obvious they’re still humping a dead horse and fighting with themselves; the friction on the sets is a fairly open secret. In some ways, the recent improvement may have been achieved despite the problems, rather than as a result of those problems being addressed.
I’d probably feel worse about this if we didn’t already have Battlestar Galactica as a more-than-worthy holder of the “best SF on TV” crown.
So I’m sorry, guys, but I’m not going to be participating in any rescue effort. The problems with the franchise are chronic and systemic and I’m of the opinion that a break at this point is unavoidable for getting those problems addressed. I’d much rather let the cancellation happen and then weigh in with the “what we expect from a revitalized franchise” debate. See my long post in the middle of page two of the current “Babel One” thread for one aspect of my opinion on improving Trek’s storytelling, for example.
On review, this sentence sucks Targ cloaca. I hope my intended meaning was clearer than my wretched construction. I’ll restate it if anyone is confused.
