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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."
Thank god.
As May West would say, 'Too much of a good thing is still too much.' and that's where the Star Trek shows have ended up being- too much.
I haven't caught much of this year's seasion, really don't care one way or the other, but then again, I feel the same way about most of TV.
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YES! I'd be soo happy if they cancelled that show. Startrek has been serving up crappy sci-fi for years and it time for it to just go.
Good news... Enterprise was the weakest of them all. The vulcan girl is a shallow ripoff of Seven of Nine, and the episodes are not that enjoyable. It's a bit embarassing for true trekkies to see a captain who's not very smart and seems to be ruled by emotion and prejudice. Instead of good stories it's just a shallow action show with lots of shooting and fighting now. It's the best thing to stop it now before it sinks to new lows.
No Flames just talk.
I must be the only one who is enjoying this new series judging from all the comments I see posted.
Maybe I'm just happy to have ST on TV. Who knows.
So yes if its cancelled I will miss it. (granted Spike TV still runs STNG) Speaking of, is it equal to NG, sometimes yes sometimes no. Lets not forget that the first few seasons of NG weren't all great.
To be honest I hated Voyager and skipped the middle seasons to DS9. But once DS9 got to the Voltra, Gem-hadar, Changeling, Klingon, story line I liked it. (btw: I know I messed up the spelling bad on all those names, sorry)
"There are better sci-fi shows out there: Bablylon 5, Farscape, Stargate SG-1, to name a few."
As for your statement above, again I must be in the minority because I couldn't stand B5 and hated
Far, but I do like SG.
So yes I agree, once DS9 ended, Voyager should have never been made, but IMHO Enterprise needs to at least finish their story. I've come this far and would like to know the ending.
They say that as if it's a bad thing.
I've watched a lot of dire sci-fi (War Of The Worlds springs to mind) in my time but ST:E really scrapes the bottom of the barrel. The characters are a joke (there's not a single one that I can empathise with or admire), and the storylines are almost entirely incompatible with the rest of the Star Trek universe (Klingons that look like TNG/DS9/Voyager rather than TOS, etc).
Frankly, I'm amazed it lasted this long. Personally, I think the decision to cast Scott Bakula as Captain Archer was telling: the producers and the network knew that the concept was so weak and limited that they needed an established sci-fi lead to help bring viewers on board. (All the previous Star Trek shows featured actors who were virtual unknowns at the time of being cast, and perhaps the shhows were that much better because of it.)
If I'd been in charge of pushing the Star Trek envelope and creating a fifth show, ST:E would have been the last thing that I would have come up with. Perhaps a series set even further into the future with a focus that included the temporal time directive would have been better - it's hard to see how it could have been much worse.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I like season 3 so far, it has a point.
However, I also loved babylon 5..about 3 years after it stopped being made.
Farscape..hated that crap, blah.
I assume this was only because I didn't see the first episode.. After seeing the first episode last week, I'm taping all the episodes now, and probably will buy the a few on DVD.
I watched one episode of babylon 5 years ago..Where the main captain of the station was being intarigated, and I had to watch the next episode..and I watched from there on.
DS9 was kewl to me, except for those ford commercials when it first came out.. I stopped watching for a bit, then me and one of my friends would get together to watch it, because the DS9 story arc was kicking some serious butt with the changlings.
I do hate Star gate though. Probably just waiting for the right episode to pick me up.
Earth, above and beyond? Not sure why I liked that series, it was original..and the last episode should ruled.
Earth Final Conflict?
Final, change the characters so nobody notices because they never aired those episodes which explain it on SPACE? Even though I still watch the damn show because it's maybe the one good episodic show out there, where you really don't have to know whats going on, but sit back and watch flashy lights.
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