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."

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Star Trek: Enterprise to be cancelled?

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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.