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Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled
jkcity writes "According to Cinscape.com The Star Trek Enterprise set is awash with rumour that it will not be renewed for a 4th season, It was previous told it was safe by UPN but so was Enteprise's lead-out show Jake 2.0 which was just Cancelled. Star Trek: Enterprise has also been reduced to 24 episodes this season by UPN, things don't look good for the Star Trek Television Franchise and after the flop of Star Trek: Nemesis it could be many years before we ever see any new Star Trek outside of books."
Shame, enterprise was the only good one.
Still, too many of them are too 'lets break all the rules, oh and against all the odds it all works out'.
and wtf kind of captain keeps risking his ship and thousands of crew to save one or two people?
plain stupid
Crossing my fingers....
and we will sick the borg on you and turn you into a FOX look alike.
captain's log: stardate 1982, brown with corn chunks. Rather relaxing if i do say so myself.
Whoopses. Sky over here in the UK is heavily plugging Jake 2.0 which is due to start in February.
Nothing like starting to watch a series which has already been canned!
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...just how much a (post-original) Trek show has to suck before they'll pull the plug.
Now that this has been empirically verified, let's never conduct this experiment again please.
News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters? Like hell.
Of course people care! What else will fat 40-year old virgins do on dateless Friday nights in their parent's basements than watch Star Trek and post on USEnet?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already discouraged and defeated Star Trek franchise when UPN confirmed that Enterprise has dropped yet again after Voyager showed to be a miserable failure as well. Coming on the heels of a recent Gallop survey which plainly states that Rick Berman has lost the peoples confidence in his ability to innovate and make progress, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Star Trek franchise is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the ratings.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Enterprise's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Enterprise faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Enterprise because Enterprise is dying. Things are looking very bad for Enterprise. As many of us are already aware, Enterprise continues to lose viewers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The Star Trek franchise is the most endangered science fiction franchise of them all, having lost 93% of its core nerds. There can no longer be any doubt: Enterprise is dying.
All major surveys show that Enterprise has steadily declined in consumer confidence. Enterprise is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Enterprise is to survive at all it will be among sci-fi dilettante dabblers. Enterprise continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Enterprise is dead.
Fact: Enterprise is dying
"Sky|One - Jake 2.0 - (Widescreen, New Series) - 12/02/2004 20-00
The Tech. Series 1, episode 1.
Christopher Gorham is Jake Foley, a very ordinary technician who suddenly becomes a super hero when he is infected by a 'computer virus' then suddenly dissappears mid-season without rational explaination as Sky yet again bets on another dubious US import, you can only guess what would have happened next"
you think enterprise was the only good star trek? no offense, but have you seen the other ones? o wait: your question re: what kind of captain risks the ship and crew to save one or 2 people clearly indicates you haven't. :>
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Truism:
Odd numbered star treks suck.
No way around it, they just do.
5, incidentally, is so bad that most of us write it off as not having existed in the first place. I think one trekkie described it best when he said "Kirk and god compare egos, god loses."
1 can't even compare to that.
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And we all know what Enterprise really needed was an annoying genius kid that plays with nanites and goes to booty town with Ashley Judd, making the thousands of teenage geeks watching even more annoyed with him, the lucky bastard...
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
Not as good as Daleks.. hmmm.... maybe Star Trek should license the Daleks and make a few eps with them as the bad guys!
What do you think of the possibility that Star Trek: Enterprise may be cancelled?
- "Who cares? Kirk rules!"
- "Who cares? Picard rules!"
- "Berman sux. I expected it any day."
- "Ahh... I just watched it for the hot Vulcan chick anyways."
- "I just wait for the Trek movies."
- "That's horrible, I just decided that Crusher was cool because he runs Linux, now this!"
- "It's all the fault of CowboyNeal and his Nielsen-connected TiVo!"
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ThinkGeek were foing to stock it, but the staff stole all of the first shipment and are too exhausted to put through a follow up order.
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I thought it was a crappy remake of Wrath of Kahn!
Let's blame it all on the theme song.
I want my Star Trek making me think. That's what Trek was always best at: making people think about things. What if? Why?
Yeah, like what if this hot green alien had huge boobies, and why then would it matter if she was green?
The writers threw out the concept of Human Sociatal Evolution which was supposed to be a major contributor to plot development in this series. When I first heard of the concept, I thought "awesome, lets see some hotheaded top-gun types handling the photon torpedo targeting!". It should have harkened back to scenes like classic Earth-Klin barfight scenes from the original star trek.
So, where they went wrong was having the sickeningly fair-minded Bacula for captain, when what they needed was a ego-maniacal, sex starved hedonist to play the part.
Now my idea for the next series is sure to succeed. Forget the federation, I want to see the crazy adventures of six 'buddies' (3 male, 3 female), who are in no way associated with the federation, and their only association with earth is that they are human. They have hilarious situations brought about by miscommunications, misplaced affections, and misguided sexual adventures.I think the market for this type of show is about to open up.
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The criminaly bad theme music.
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Star Trek has been crap for a long time, which makes me very sad. The only thing they haven't tried is to put Scrappy Doo on the show. I predict that next season, if they are picked up, we're going to see the addition of the following characters:
Scrappy Doo, Oliver (from the Brady Bunch), a "long lost cousin" of the Fonz, Neelix, and a monkey dressed in a dagget suit.
And Berman will be wondering aloud why people just aren't watching the show.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
Dude, the captain is the best. You just have to bang your remote from time to time and say "Al?" and the show gets a lot better. I like to mute the TV during the opening credits and sing "Love Touch" or "Maggie", to get me stoked. You're right though, the vulcan chick is hot. I can't wait for it to get cancelled so she can do some more mainstream work.
Maybe if UPN developed a Trek that fit their core audience, like Moesha in Space or something.... nahh.
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
Nailed it in one. It's quatro formagio with extra cheese. None of the other STs had such a lame effort.
I always thought it should start with a flashing blue light, a view of the main screen showing a klingon ship firing, and then cut to the captain who says "Oh boy!"
As I was watching the last Star Trek film, I was wondering, "why is this so boring" Then I noticed that most of the film takes place on the bridge, which is just a big room with a wide-screen TV in the middle and some swivel armchairs and formica covered desks... hell, it's just a badly furnished yuppie living room floating through space.
Put Wil Wheaton on the next week (maybe let Kirk kill Wesley Crusher? ahh, the visuals), that's another additional 200,000 viewers above normal.
Dude.
I would totally kick his ass, using the patented "pull the toupee over his eyes" maneuver, perfected (but never used) by Kahn.