"Looks like we missed the boat, captain..."
Posted on 02/20/2005 6:43:05 PM PST by pabianice
"Timing is everything." We've all heard that one and it's true. Example: "Star Trek: Enterprise."
Paramount and UPN announced on February 2 that the show was being canceled at the end of this year's run in May. "Enterprise" had hit an all time low, with just a 2.5 rating the week before the announcement. UPN's decision to have placed it on Friday nights in the 'death slot' against the monster SciFi Friday lineup of "Stargate SG-1," "Stargate Atlantis," and a white-hot reincarnation of "Battlestar Galactica" almost certainly played a major part in the ratings drop for "Enterprise." However, weak to terrible writing until this season was also a big factor.
Well, the cancellation is official ... just in time for the new creative team headed by Manny Coto ("Odyssey 5") to have kicked in, and the change in the show is startling. The most recent shows have been fast, sharp, and nasty, breaking with the "I'm OK, You're OK" pablum spooned-out starting with Roddenberry's lobotomized "The Next Generation." This past week's "Enterprise" had espionage, danger, and an explanation of that 39-year-old riddle: why did the Klingons in the original "Star Trek" look so human when compared to later versions.
Now that the show has been canceled it is coming into its own with tight writing and interesting stories. Well, maybe Coto can find another show worthy of his talents. Paramount really screwed the pooch with they way they mishandled "Enterprise."
"Looks like we missed the boat, captain..."
I wonder if science fiction has a future. I don't meet many kids interested in science fiction anymore.
Oh Noooooooooooo!
LMAO!!
I stopped watching Enterprise last year; but I'm curious; what IS their explanation for that?
many kids are too busy getting fat not exercising and sitting on their fat a**es in front of whatever gadget is the current thing.........
My 11 year old daughter is interested in SF and she reads it all the time.
She can't stand Star Trek, though.
Overall, ST is a mediocre product people like because it's at least set in space. Farscape kicked its butt in every way possible.
"Boldly Going Nowhere"
They are growing up in a world that would have been a science fiction world when I was akid.
Now you got me interested, am a major film music fan. Who composed it?
The new Battle Star galactica is better.
You bet! I agree!
Not refering to the poster directly, but this is the reason Star Trek is laughed at by anyone over 16. I mean, Who cares??? They had a bigger makeup budget, that's why! "P
Maybe I'm old, but it just seems different to me.
Yeah it seems unless it's an xbox game, kids aren't really interested. I'm just going by what I see in the mainstream magazines,etc. There's nothing new coming out that's good. Or is there?
"Enterprise" was crap - too much PC garbage and it just plain sucked.
I miss Babylon 5. The new Galactica is great because like B5 its episodes can be woven into an epic.
Cy, that's not what I expected to hear from the borg!
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