'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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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: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: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.