LOS ANGELES - After four years, the mission is over for "Star Trek: Enterprise." The prequel to the original "Star Trek" science fiction series will air its final episode May 13, UPN and Paramount Network Television announced Wednesday.
The series will get a send-off that "salutes its contributions to the network and satisfies its loyal viewers," said UPN Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff. She didn't disclose details.
"Star Trek: Enterprise" debuted in September 2001. Scott Bakula (news) stars as Capt. Jonathan Archer, along with John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park and Connor Trinneer.
The series has been sold into rerun syndication in most of the country and is set for debut this fall.
Its end means that, for the first time in 18 years, no first-run "Star Trek" series will be airing. The franchise included "Star Trek" (1966-69, NBC); "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-94, syndicated); "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1992-99, syndicated); "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995-2001, UPN) and "Star Trek: Enterprise."
"Star Trek" movies also have been released.
While bidding a warm goodbye to "Star Trek: Enterprise," the studio hinted at more "Star Trek" to come.
"We all look forward to a new chapter of this enduring franchise in the future," said Paramount Network Television President David Stapf.
Oh well... I didn't really get the chance to watch too many of the episodes of Enterprise. I hope that the next installment will be after TNG, DS9 and Voyager. I think that would be exciting.
So long, Enterprise. Although I didn't get to watch you much, I DID like your first officer, and the show wasn't that bad either...
Yeah, I watched it, but it really didn't kick that much ass. It had potential, however.
I still say it was damn better than Voyager.
I cannot believe this is the first time in 18 years an installment of Star Trek will not be on television.
And also, how is crap like Stargate and Andromeda still on? I realize Enterprise is a network show, and those examples are cable and syndicated, respectively, but still.
I wonder if Enterprise can jump to the Sci-Fi Channel?
Oh, anything Star Trek-related will get to the Sci-Fi channel. Andromeda was from Gene Roddenberry, who created Star Trek, and I'm certain that it's on Sci-Fi now. I absolutely HATE Andromeda, but somehow it made money...
Stargate ain't so bad if you give it a moment... But ONLY a moment....
Wow, I just heard about it in the BS Gal thread. I went and read some news articles on it, and
Rick Berman is saying that the francise has been to the well too many times, that the market is saturated or some rot.
which is pure out bull.
The truth is Berman ran the francise into the ground. Enterprise is lame, I watched it every week, because I'm a nut, and I will make myself watch it.
but I was very bored by it.
Berman tanked it.
Of course he can't admit that, he has to blame it on the fans, the fans are tired of Star Trek.
Bull roar!
The fans still want it, it's Berman who should take the blame.
HOPEFULLY, paramount will get the picture, and get someone else in there to take over Star Trek and give Rick the long awaited pink slip that he deserves.
Ron Moore was the secret to Star Treks' success, and is proving it with BS GAL, the most successful show on cable now.
That Andorian guy was cool. If I remember correctly, he was the doctor in Reanimator, who invented the serum that reanimated dead people, but made them zombies... He was also Michael J. Fox's antagonist in The Frighteners, I think. That is who I THINK it is, anyway. I didn't bother to google this time...
One alumn said that they thought it would be a good idea for the franchise to lay off the direct approach, and move into other streams, like possibly an animated series... Major Kira (NEVER did I like her...) said that so much ground has been covered that in order to make any serious headway at this point, the franchise has to veer to the left or right and go with that new direction. So who knows what's in store?... I just hope it's good, and "reanimates" the franchise to a point parallel to its glorydays...
They need to stop trying to teach us a lesson and just tell a story.
Keep all that new age mumbo jumbo and put it on the shelf.
My least favorite Vogager episode, where Janeway powers up the mind rape machine for another 1000 years, so it can go on mind raping innocent space travlers, was repeated on Enterprise last season.
Archer is mutated into a alien, and relives the holocost of his race.
The doctor changes him back, but Archer makes him save the virus that caused this, I guess so others can be mutated and LEARN THE LESSON.
It's all a bunch of bull roar, just new age cheese.
I want to see archer fight the GORN, or meet a go go chick in knee high boots, or violate the stinking prime directive and get into some planets business.
I don't want life lessons from my dad, Rick Berman.
***Whidden breaths deep, counts to ten, searches for inner peace***
Good point. I'm the same way. I write a little, and that's one of the biggest themes of my stories. Life is REAL, not bottled up into cliches and story-like situations where good makes evil pay for it's actions everytime. Maybe that'll be the END result, but real life isn't always so boring and predictable...
Sometimes it's good to have a message, but like Whidden said, I don't need these 'Family Ties'-ish leasson's spoon feed each week.
A lot of people slammed DS9 for it's long war arc, but I felt is was some of the most compelling story telling Trek has ever done. There were some really dramatic moments.
They tackled several other issues too. The other day I watched 'Far Beyond The Stars' for the first time since it originally aired. That was a fantastic episode.
The only thing I retained from Voyager was anger, pity, and more anger.
Yeah, we need a non P.C. captain, that lears at the yeoman, and drinks to much, fires at will at alien vessels and thinks the prime directive is not so much a rule, as a guideline.
Two billion people dying of famine on a planet? Send them some damn food.
Roll up on a pre-warp world and they just had a nuclear war? Save as many as you can.
Some mutated alien monster kidnaps your crew? Dont try to talk to him man, just pull out your phaser and kick some Alien ass.
Enough of this new age politics. Star Trek should be escapism, not a Social Studies lecture.
We need a star trek to encompass some of the more intriguing subplots over the last few series. Wesley crusher was supposed to be a kid genius, right? Well how old is he now? Let's see him as an engineer, or second in command. Let's see Warf's son make his father proud as a Klingon/Federation officer.
Please pardon my pseudo-intellectuaphilisophicalismysiticality.
02-03-2005 04:32 AM
Whidden flip flops, yet again. 
