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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."
Atleast Enterprise will get a ending. It took Farscape forever to get a proper ending and theres countless other shows that got canceled without a chance to conclude anything.
Braga is saying it's series finale. Furthermore, he states that "nobody is surprised by this." Of course, this explains why he and Brannon bailed this season, and turned the reins over to Manny Coto, who has actually written stories that fit in the canon of the Star Trek universe, without having to rely on time travel for bloody well everything.
I hope the Trek fans manage to salvage Enterprise - they should give Coto at least another season, and some decent advertising dollars, to demonstrate whether or not he and the rest of the remaining Enterprise team can put on a better show than B&B.
It has been a long time since we've seen a Star Trek TV series
launch. Maybe we've forgotten how awkward it can be that first year or so.
ST:TNG was painful to watch those first few seasons. Riker had starch in his jock, Troi was whiny had spoke too much for how little she had to say, and it was always "Federation Knows Best."
It wasn't until the series found its footing later that it became interesting. Warp drive wrecks space (we don't know everything after all), Borgs eat our lunch (we aren't so tough after all), and more.
Sadly, Enterprise was never given a chance to find its path. I'm a fan, though I was also critical of weak, pointless plot lines. But I liked the cast and thought the genesis of the universe we've come to know so well had potential.
I will miss it.
-- Scott
One thing I can't abide about Trekkies is their compulsive need to tie up all loose ends and resolve all inconsistencies, no matter how trivial or uninteresting. The purpose of background is to help tell a story, not the other way around.
The images flicker and disappear as the program ends. Riker and Troy exit the holodeck into the bustle of the Titan. Fade to black as the Titan continues its mission. Roll credits.
Cheesy, huh? That's what's gonna happen.Betcha.
Where are my Babylon 5 reruns?
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
The problem being, no matter how good the series is and could be under Manny Coto, it is tainted by what came before.
Let me put it this way - say you're building a house, and you end up with a lousy contractor that slacks off, does all sorts of code violations, and lets the foundation get water and termite damage. You fire the guy, of course, and bring in the best contractor in the world, with one condition - everything that was done before has to stay in place, because you don't want to start all over again with another new house. The guy builds the friggin Taj Mahal for you, but it's built on the crappy foundation the first guy laid.
The same goes with Enterprise. Manny's doing a pretty good job, but he's working with damaged goods. Oh, he can go back and brace up some of the sagging parts and he can build a fantastic new house, but it's still built on a foundation that was damaged by neglect by B&B. The other problem is - it's not really even his show. Oh, he's running it, but he's just the caretaker, it's still B&B's house.
This is why I don't get the fan campaign to save Enterprise. LET IT DIE. Let Paramount feel the sting of two Trek failures in a row under Berman's rule. After a while, even the dumbest of studios has to recognize a time for change, and maybe then we'll have a Trek series we'll enjoy. Then people like Straczynski (or however you spell it) and Coto and such can come in at that point and do fantastic work with that series.
Please let Star Trek die. Its time. There will still be
books with the occaisional interesting and original idea.
As someone who grew up with TOS and has seen much of the
subsequent incarnations I just feel it is well past time to
move on. Enjoy the reruns and DVDs and give your support
to new and different science fiction on TV.
At any rate, they're apparently going to involve the holodeck for the finale....it's like one big last "Fuck You Fans".
I think it's more along the lines of them trying to do a knockoff of Babylon 5's "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" than an attempt to irritate Trek fans.
It could actually be kind of cool. I am not a fan of Enterprise pre-season 3, but this may be a good opportunity for the writers to do some integration of the continuity with that of the other series.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman