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Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released
exley writes "Trek Today is reporting that UPN has released a synopsis for the final two episodes of Enterprise, apparently confirming some of the rumors that have been circulating in recent weeks." From the article: "Enterprise will be the first Trek series since the original Star Trek not to end with a special two-hour finale. However, UPN has decided to air both 'Terra Prime' and 'These Are The Voyages...' on the same day, Friday the 13th of May, in an effort to still make a special event out of the show's end."
The founding of the Federation did occur after the end of the war with the Romulans, and it did occur 6 years after season 4 of Enterprise, which corresponds to the year 2161.
This year is established by a TNG scene in which they are playing poker and Troi announces that the next round will be "Federation Day" in which 2's, 6's, and aces are wild. (Episode #117, The Outcast)
Sorry, you're living in denial if you think Enterprise is coming back; it isn't - it's cancelled for good, sorry.
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The Federation Charter was signed in 2161, according to an Episode of TNG (the one where Riker falls in love with a person from an adrongenous race, I believe). Enterprise started in 2152, and is ending if 2156, so we'll be missing Romulan War.
I was always hoping that if the show ran for seven years, the last two seasons would deal with the four years of the Romulan war, and the last (few) episode(s) of the seventh season showing the formation of the Federation.
It will still be good to see the formation of the Federation, though. The Romulan War is rumoured to be the basis of one of the plots considered for Trek 11, however, so not all is lost.
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I think most Slashdotters are too young to remember the lamest plot gimmick in the history of TV. A reminder to Star Trek fans that you don't need fancy pseudo-science to resurect people!
It's actually a reference to Church La Femme's famous fear of the Friday the 13th's.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Blasphemy!
I moved to the US (from Russia) about 10 years ago with my parents and my sister. Even my 45 year old mother enjoys DS9. And so does my younger sister. DS9 had by far the most interesting story line of all the Star Trek TV series. Great actors too.
Paul.
Season 1 of Enterprise was so-so. Season 2 (particuarly the middle third of it) was bad, but started to pick up at the end. Season 3 was good. Season 4 was very good, with the 2 or 3 part stories (which make up most of the season) being better than the standalone episodes.
Enterprise only sucks if you stopped watching before Season 3. It's understandable to stop then, but don't judge it now based on that. All Star Trek series start off on the bad side and improve as they go along, this one being no different.
I'd like some of that crack you're smoking...
You're supposed to get the crack when you get moderator points. So metamoderate. If you metamoderate you're more likely to get moderator points.
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Roddenberry pitched the Original Series as "Wagon Train to the Stars" which is why it had forst and foremost lots of action punctuated by an occasional fistfight or shootout. If someone would return to that formula instead of the "telenovela" style soap opera format of recent series then it would reurn to high ratings.
Both Roddenberry and George Lucas understood this. Roddenberry based Star Trek on old Westerns, while Lucas based Star Wars on old WWII movies. For an interesting exercise think about how you would rewrite "High Noon" as a Star Trek episode.
They can leave Hoshi, T'Pol, and the weapons/armor dude.(Reed?) I'm not too fond of the rest of the acting, though. The worst is the captains. In all fairness, maybe it's just the story that's bad and the actors are screwed and doing the best they can.
A show has to have 100 episodes before it can go in to syndication.
I'm not sure about that. The original Trek series has been in syndication practially since it went off the air.
But why is the rum gone?
/still pissed they killed off Data.
Brent Spiner wanted to kill him off. It took some arm twisting to get him to do the last movie or two. He felt that the character had run its course (I've never heard anything to suggest that he felt that the character had been painted into a corner development-wise).
They should have gotten the guy who played Lore or even Dr. Soong. Those guys could have passed as Data w/o pissing off the audience...
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What's the fifth one?
;) in the shower, complains about this horrible dream recanting what happened to Stewie the FG episode, to which Patrick Duffy replies, "Who's Stewie?"
The best parody of the Dallas one was from Family Guy, at the end of the Y2K episode, where Victoria Principal (the real her, not an animated one) wakes up, finds Patrick Duffy (not sure if he was animated or not
Not quite. Sleeping in Light was always ment to be the series finale. It was filmed at the end of the 4th season, just in case the show wasn't brought back. Once JMS got word of the 5th season, Deconstruction was written to take it's place as the last episode of season 4, and SiL was tucked away for a year.
Good, Enterprise was the only reason I ever watched UPN. Now I'll have no excuse whatsoever. Thanks UPN! Your channel sucks. I'm glad I can just imagine that it doesn't exist at all now!
Hopefully Sci Fi or someone else will pick up Enterprise. UPN is the ONLY channel in my viewing area that doesn't broadcast in High Definition. Thats very telling of the audience they are tailored to, and I hope the high-dollar advertisers remember that.