Star Trek: Enterprise Has Been Cancelled

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personally, i wouldn’t trust Skiffy channel much either, they have a past history of frelling over their good shows…

i predict that as soon as BSG gets a decent, loyal following, they’ll unceremoniously give it the axe in the middle of the season, leaving the fans with a cliffhanger ending…

there’s no reason to believe that Ent would recieve any different treatment

skiffy and upn, you’re a bunch of frelling drannits and you cannot be trusted with decent shows, you just frak them up royally…

(hezmana, i sound like a frelling fanboy, don’t i :wink: )

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So I’ll post an unwanted bash of Trek:

The franchise died for me during the second or third season of Voyager. I watched every episode of the original, TNG, most of DS9 and two seasons of Voyager. Couldn’t take the poor storytelling anymore. Put it in a vault and let nothing Trek be made for the next ten years. Dust it off and start fresh. It was turned into a money whore and worked till it dropped from exhaustion.

I am so freakin glad that Battlestar Galactica is so good. Finally, some decent science fiction to watch that is doing well in the ratings.

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Won’t someone think of Chef?
Sioux: I got that too. CBS is just making sure everyone knows that they and Viacom control Paramount and UPN.

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Sir, you are forgetting the Glowing Spine of Passion.

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How are my little space crackers today?

Ain’t no pointy eared Vulcan gonna tell me how to make my chocolate salty balls!

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I would just love it if they managed to get a shot of Chef into the finale, and it turned out to be Issac Hayes.

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No I’m not. I shall never forget the glowing spine of passion. I personally want a female Cylon since they appear to be rather horny in the extreme. I’m not picky, I’ll take a boomerbot. The one sex scene I remember from trek was in the last movie and made me want to vomit.

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That makes Balthus/Balthor/Whosis “Cylon Dectector” a video tape of the Chippendales. I consider that a major plot screwup thingie.

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As a Babylon 5 fan I have to echo the inscrutible Gobear’s comments. I loved Babylon 5 but the movies have all sucked, with the exception of In the Beginning, and the two spinoff series weren’t any good either. I say unto JMS that he should leave the universe alone and let us remember the good times.

Oh, this is a Star Trek thread. Oops. I had high hopes for Enterprise but they kind of ruined the series for me from the beginning with their lame ass temporal war story arc. There was so much potential and they ruined it by starting out with a cliche story about time travel. Egads!! I could only come to the conclusion that the writers were creatively bankrupt. Understandable given that they’ve gone through almost 40 years of books, movies, television series, and comics.

So let the series die while we still have fond memories of Trek.

Marc

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Explain please.

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Striving after wind… ;j

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Well, the show had potential, but unfortunately they blew it. I felt it was improving but kind of expected it to end.

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I tried to watch it, I’ve been following Trek since I was a preteen trying to folow TOS on a fuzzy cable chanel. Somehow I always seemed to tune in to the “filler” episodes where nothing much happens. They were always trying to save a crewmember from the Dark Planet of Packing Crates while being chased by the Cheap Costume people.

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Perhaps it is best to euthanize it now rather than allow it to continue wallowing for the rest of the traditional 7 years, at which point the network might be wary of investing in another incarnation of Trek.

Still, it was showing some promise in recent times…who knows what it might have become…

Thanks for the heads up, Aesiron. I probably wouldn’t have found out about this until much later…

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We can also expect all four seasons of ENT on DVD this spring.
But I wish…

I wish Coto had been placed in charge far, far earlier.

I wish that the Trek-hating, Sci-fi disliking Leslie Moonves didn’t have so much power.

I wish UPN would take some notice of how many viewers they will lose after May 13.

I wish the CBS/Viacom honchos would realize that on-fifth of the country has had no access to UPN affiliates, and how many viewers elsewhere have gone uncounted.

I wish for pie.

I hope the doggie finds work.

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One-fifth. :smack:
Did anyone ever hear that ENT is supposed to be syndicated? Or did I just imagine that?

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Poor little Panda…

We hardly knew ye.

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It figures everybody would be concerned about the dog’s career over Scott Bakula’s. :smiley:

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Syndication – that’s the only reason that John Billingsley even thought that the show would earn a fourth season.

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I watched TNG and ENT regularly. I was never able to watch a single full episode of any other ST series. The original gives me headaches with all the high pitched noises. I was burned out on ST after 7 fun-filled years (and a spectacular series finale) after TNG, so I wasn’t even interested in the ST universe at all until many years had gone by, which is when ENT began, so I watched ENT.

Because of that, I agree they should wiat 5-10 (10 would be better) years before the next one.

But I was seriously annoyed at ENT for putting on the stupid crap they did instead of fleshing out the already established backstories of the Federation. Why didn’t they ever do that?

Season One: Similar to actual season one, except without any time travelling. This season has the most “standalones”, except there are no lush jungle asteroids unless said asteroid is near an actual star. Oh man that episode pissed me off. Main themes would be friction with the Vulcans, inventing (instead of refining) and deploying transporter technology, and possibly scavenging alien technology to assimilate into the human arsenal.

Season Two: First Contact with the klingons. Ooops! As Picard said, it has “disastrous consequences”, so let’s see that whole story. Season opener shows us doing clandestine recon, getting found out, hanged for treason (lost a regular! Big cliffhanger for Christmas break!), and war ensues. Second half of season is brutal war with klingons (can you say ratings?). Season ends with major battle that cripples both forces, forcing a temporary truce that simmers over break.

Season Three: Wrap up klingon war in the early part of season. Transporter, phasers, and replicators now included on ship for first time in production form. (Season one would have been great if they had actual guns and no transporter at all.) Seasons have spanned multiple years, so crew gets shuffled (if not outright changed.) Archer stays on, but Trip gets his own ship, which constantly needs to back up Enterprise for the riskier missions. Ferrengi? Romulans? Cardassians? Oh my!

Season Four: Federation is established. Diplomatic missions (like last week’s episode) abound. Season ends on that huge ceremony we saw in the time travel sequence. TNG had countless “planet wants to join the Federation” episodes. Why didn’t ENT ever have even one? Sure, we’d be sleazy solicitors trying to form the Federation out of nothing, but humans are nothing if not snake oil salesmen.

C’mon, the ST universe has actual, known backstory! Why wasn’t it ever used? Xindi? Those lizard guys? Temporal wars? A full-blooded Vulcan being far more emotional than the half-breed Spock ever was? You’ve gotta be kidding me.

The bastards. I’d like the franchise to take a 5 year hiatus and come back with the actual Enterprise series we were promised. I would have been good, dammit!