Comments on: Enterprise Cancelled

By: LC

LC — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:05:39 +0000

I Totally agree, the ratings killed it. I personally watched every show, but as far as ratings go, my voice doesn’t count because I’m from the UK. (I’ve been following season 4 on the net) Television in the US seems to be all about selling advertising space, it’s fast becoming that way here too. By law in the UK, if you own a TV you must pay a license fee of around $300 a year. That money funds our BBC which usually buys star trek. No longer sadly, enterprise is sold to subscription only channels first. My point is, it’s all down to you fickle americans! If everyone who gets UPN tuned into the rest of season 4, the execs would have to take notice!

The future of star trek is in YOUR hands my friends, the rest of the world can only hope you will do the right thing.

Incidentally, how anyone who has seen the magic of shatner, nimoy & kelly can describe TOS as the worst trek, is beyond me. With no recourse to CGI and other glossy, style over content directorial rubbish, the producers had to concentrate on characters and stories. Low budget sci-fi works best! Look at our own “Doctor Who” and “Blakes 7″ The FX were laughable, even by TOS standards but they were great shows. ST:The Motion Picture – Budget $77 million (a STUPID amount of money in 1977) Dull, boring film, all style-no content. Wrath of Khan – budget $12 million yet it was one of the BEST trek films ever! My point here is that if enterprise hadn’t cost so much to make, if the producers had concentrated on stories and not tried to make every episode into an expensive action movie, I believe enterprise would have lived long and prospered. Look at episodes like “Vox Sola” one of the best and I’ll bet you it was also one of the cheapest to make. Ah well, no point crying over spilt romulan ale. If trek ever does go into production again, I hope lessons have been learned. If we don’t learn from our mistakes, we are forever doomed to repeat them.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:17:05 +0000

Ok this is what I don’t get, why do you guys like TOS at all? It was the WORST Star Trek ever created. The only thing I liked about it was the fact that it paved the way for all the other series. But honestly, I don’t know HOW THE HELL it did that.

I’ve watched TOS and all its movies, but I just don’t get it. What do you guys see in that series? I actually wonder when I watch it (TOS) if Star Trek fans are really as smart as people say they are to have believed that such a HORRIBLE show was good.

It was crap, plain and simple.

And to you all who think that Enterprise is being cancelled because of “unimaginable writing” or “bad acting”, you are completely wrong. The execs at CBS and UPN don’t give a rats ass about that. The show is being cancelled because it has low ratings. It’s being cancelled because Star Trek fans abandoned the show. It’s being cancelled because of fans like you guys who gave up on it in the one moment it needed you.

And if you think that it’s all ok and that Star Trek will be back then you can keep dreaming. Star Trek is dead (and I say that with a heavy heart because I loved ST) Star Trek: Enterprise is being cancelled and it is the final nail in ST’s coffin.

RIP Star Trek, it’s been great.

By: LC

LC — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:13:41 +0000

Ok, my critical savaging of enterprise was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek. I did however, mean what I said regarding Jolene Blalocks acting. TERRIBLE! Leonard Nimoy played a vulcan how a vulcan should be played, many other supporting actors did a damn fine job too, Blalock did not. Yes, some of the scripts were bad but most were ok and some were actually quite good. Imagine what a competent actor could have done with that part, the emotional turmoils, the addiction storyline and so on. It was a gem of a role, wasted. Yes I agree, Blalock is gorgeous, with a body that must have launched a million wet dreams. I’m sure she’ll have a great career post-enterprise. Seymour Butts should give her agent a call.

By: Nelix

Nelix — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:20:51 +0000

The mistake was made by pitching the shoe BEFORE TOS.

Todays tech is more advanced than TOS so it is maddness to accept that the doors on the ship don’t open by themselves. It was down hill from there.

By: Mad and Sad: Mr Two-Tone

Mad and Sad: Mr Two-Tone — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:56:48 +0000

Wow – what a love / hate group. I liked Enterprise and it could have been very refreshing – had it not become super-serious. TOS was best at exploring new frontiers, TNG seemed very diplomatic with neo-sciences, DS9 seemed stuck in space and Voyager was lost in space. Enterprise had bad science ( remember the Rogue planet – breakaway planet with a tropical plant background and no Sun? ) Temporal time travel? ( What no zipping around the sun anymore ) and writers who believe more in drama than just having fun ( Like 1:19 with the Feringi pirates ). Too bad season three went continuous – I like story, plot and solved ending in an hour with some continuity in later episode. Season four was shaping up to be a better format, still too dramatic but shorter plots. Yep, I agree that I’ll miss a good weekly trek show but they need to rest for a whole long while – and hire better writers ( someone who knows a biy o’ science ) and PLEASE no more Nemesis-type movie-wannabes. The Borgs at the end of season 3 on TNG was one of the better movies-that-could-have-been. My two-cents

By: StarTrekking

StarTrekking — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:26:19 +0000

Enterprise was a horrible show, very disappointing. BattleStar Galactica, as much as I want to like it, is following suit. How can you take genocide followed by a desperate flight and make it boring? The new cylons are a joke, terminators aren’t as cool as cylon centurions.

Anyway besides Jolene Blaylock there was never any reason to watch Enterprise. Mr. Quantum Leap is a terribly wooden actor with two modes: mad and sad (sound familar DS9 fans?). The ship was boring, I always cheered when it was shot up. Good idea wasted. It’s probably for the best, Trek needs a vacation from itself, it’s gotten too watered down and stupid.

BTW – TNG sucked monkey nuts. It was one moral crisis, one staff meeting, one holodeck program after another. Very little of it was interesting.

It’s worse than that it’s physics Jim!

By: Andres

Andres — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:32:50 +0000

LC, please Blalock is great, how can she act with that script? It was stated that she had to be half naked half of each season, come on. Remember she will be the only one with a carrer after this show, or do you wanna bet with Trip.

By the way, She has a gorgeous body

By: TJO1971

TJO1971 — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:51:13 +0000

I like all Trek shows and i own almost all movies on DVD. When i saw the first episode of Enterprise with that stupid song and the name Star Trek missing from the title…i had a bad feeling. But as some of you said, between watching the same old reruns and having a brand new Trek thing going on….there wasn´t much doubt left. I started enjoying it.

I will miss Enterprise.

By: Moon

Moon — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:15:11 +0000

OK, yeah, the theme was awful. Couldn’t they have fixed that after the first season? Might’ve saved the show.

By: Moon

Moon — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:06:55 +0000

Really don’t understand where all the savaging is coming from. At it’s worst, Enterprise was way better than any part of Voyager. Derivative? Who cares? Most Trek is derivative in one way or another. It was decently written, well produced. Are you people looking for high art or something? This is Star Trek–no more, no less. Even the Xindi season was perfectly entertaining. The show deserved a better fate.