'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled?

Tycoon Guy writes "There seems to be no avoiding it this season: TrekToday is reporting that the Enterprise production crew has been told they will all be fired in March, after completing filming on another four episodes. If true, that leaves only very little time to participate in the Save Enterprise campaign. But even if Enterprise is cancelled, all may not be lost: Rick Berman said today he's working on a new Trek feature film that will have "a larger scope and budget" than ever."

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interesting....

[schnits0r]

Considering that there are 5 more episodes for season 4, they say nothing about it on the news section of the site either.

I was really hoping for it to continue, season 4 is by far the best.

Oh come on, cut the sensational CRAP out.

[Yo Grark]

First line when I go to read the article?

"Enterprise showrunner Manny Coto today denied a rumour that crew members had already been told of the show's cancellation."

Not only is the article based on a rumor, it was officially denied.

"As to the crew being let go in March," Coto said, "we've always been scheduled to finish production in March!" A DUH.

If they want to cancel it fine, just don't play this stupid media OH NO game slashdot. Please & Thank you.

Yo Grark

Hello, editors?

[iantri]

As I write this it is 2:12 PM. The article was posted at 2:10 PM. TrekToday has already retracted their story.

So what I want to know is, did anyone at Slashdot even READ the fine article before a story about it?

Re:what moron

[A beautiful mind]

Well, this may be true for season 1-2, but the end of 3rd season until the last episode i've seen (4x10) was great. They improved a LOT on the show since they started it. In season 1-2, T'pol was the 'thing' for a lot of fans, but since then the show gained momentum and started to rock. I enjoyed that they extended the storyline on the timetravel stuff and the Zindi parts were awesome. Its one of the 3-4 series i can actually watch without getting bored.

Re:Sad if true

[Anonymous Coward]

No, Sci-Fi's schedule was 8pm Andromeda (no one cares) / 9pm Stargate SG1 / 10pm Stargate Atlantis. With Battlestar Galactica it's now 7pm Andromeda / 8pm Stargate SG1 / 9pm Stargate Atlantis / 10pm Battlestar Galactica.

Re:Very sad

[Nighttime]

I agree, people don't realise Trek's always been inconsistent with itself. See TOS klingons vs future klingons.

That was sort of explained in the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations. Except they (Klingons) don't wish to talk about it :)

Rumor false ... for now

[Random BedHead Ed]

This has been a good season, so it was nice so see this Slashdot story contradicted by this:

http://www.saveenterprise.com/sfxrumor.htm

So at least this season will stick around. Of course writing a letter in support of the series can't hurt.

Re:NEEDED: Sci-fi business model

[tm2b]

Relax, that's a Brit idiom. What we call "seasons," they call "series." So it is the finale to the "first series," where we would call it the finale to the "first season."

Re:Archer and crew are fracked.

[Anonymous Coward]

The show has been airing in the UK for the past three months or so. And I being vague because I don't want to spoil it for anyone who wants to enjoy the show.

TrekToday Says Coto Denies Cancellation Rumor

[reallocate]

Hello? Anyone actually read anything?

TrekToday is actually reporting the showrunner's, Manny Coto, denial of the cancellation rumor. Rather the opposite of the Slashdot tease.

As for the alleged March production crew layoffs, Coto says Enterprise production always ends in March.

Re:Sad if true

[Rethcir]

Sorry, we're already there. Khan Noonian Singh and the gang were genetically engineered circa 1997.

Re:You're not alone...

[slashdot_commentator]

Nope, previous poster was correct. Berman (or somebody) pried the Trek franchise from Roddenberry's cold dead fingers.

GR fell ill of cancer around when TNG was released. GR was responsible for much of season one's suckiness. GR was a true sci-fi fan, who was more concerned with philosophic themes than entertainment. He also harbored a grudge against TV execs making his reign with the original series difficult. (You know, violence & T&A.)

Example: He thought that in the future, people would be more enlightened and think out situations before moving to action. So in the 1st season, you saw a lot of committees before anything was done. The betazed(?) was the other one. Human's, being emotional beings, would need to have all sorts of warm fuzzy, new agey crap to keep an even keel. Thus every starship would have a shrink. While Marina Sirtis provided a T&A quota, I couldn't stand her granola eating, "I have feelings, don't do what is necessary if it wipes out some bystanding aliens", blah, blah, blah.

Basically, TNG season one was the universe run by a 60's hippee liberal utopia. That was what GR forsaw. It might have made him happy, but it sucked dogsh*t for entertainment. Think of GR like that Trek episode where Kirk gets split into a good Kirk and a bad Kirk. Call the good Kirk "science fiction excellence" and the bad Kirk "soulless entertainment". Eg - Arthur C. Clarke makes excellent, dispassionate, cerebral sci-fi, but you can't really make any of his books into movies, they are so subtle. Bad Kirk is obvious, "zero artistry and logical consistency, but lots of space battles and crewwomen in miniskirts". You really need both, or the show sucks from either extreme.

So, Roddenberry called the shots in the first season, became fatally ill, and had to hand over the reigns to Berman. Whallah, more space battles, more T&A, more engaging stories, less sermonizing propaganda, less Wesley = entertaining show.

Don't get me wrong. I loved Roddenberry, TOS and even his other sci-fi spinoff (Final Earth?). But TNG season one sucked crap, and it was because of Roddenberry. Berman did a wonderful job salvaging TNG, and his mediocrity and desire to be popular allowed DS9 to steal themes from B5 and let DS9 be the series it was. But Berman has sucked the Trek franchise dry with Voyager & Enterprise, and has to go; much like a great ballplayer who is on the decline of his career.

Re:You're not alone...

[glarbl_blarbl]

Totally agree with you.. The three-episode arcs this season have been the best Trek I've seen since DS9. The mini-series within a series on Vulcan with the mind-melds a la the end of Wrath of Khan and allusions to Jesus and New Testament were terrifically enlightening IMHO.

When they brought out the idea of a temporal cold war (two LONG years ago), that just about blew my mind (thinking about chess games where you get to change the opening you chose as you're about to lose the endgame - ok, well I thought that was a good analogy but maybe RISK would be a better choice since it requires more players). I was somewhat disappointed in the execution, to say the least. Way too long spent on a prick-tease of a sub-plot.

The things I like best about Enterprise are 1) the characters of the Capt, T'Pol, and Trip are (nearly) always entertaining and T'Pol's addiction was one of the more realistic (not resolved in a week) portrayals I have seen in popular TV shows. 2) the technology looks a lot more like what we have now, it breaks down a lot- and is often poorly designed (look at the railings in engineering, for example- a little turbulence while you're going down the stairs and whoops! broken neck!).

From what I understood, Berman has the whole thing mapped out to seven seasons, with all the juicy bits featuring Romulans and Klingons to commence shortly after that whole temporal war thing... I'm gonna be writing an email to Universal telling them how loyal I've been and will be. It's the only show I watch on UPN.

-g