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."
A & E did the same with Nero Wolfe.
Its out on DVD. Rent them.
I'm sure it is, but I've invested so much time and interest in Trek over the years, another si-fi show just isn't the same.
Your loss.
I know. And I've heard lots of great things about it...But for some reason, I just can't get into any of the new si-fi shows.
A run down of my Friday evening.
First I watch Andromeda, then SG-1.
I then switch to Enterprise, and switch back to watch Battlestar Galactica.
Then I watch SG-1 over again and then Stargate Atlantis then switch over to Monk.
That is my entire Friday night. Never before has my entire Friday been so entirely full with good entertainment.
WOW that is nice!
I believe Jeri Ryan as a Borg is fondly known as 2 of 2.
LOL on the Borg 2 of 2.
WOW! Good Pic.
T'Pol must have been worked over by Dr Sun. Excellent results!
pabianice, howcum there's no Moslems in the future in any of these Star Trek series? We've got explanations why the Klingons didn't look like Klingons in the years prior to TNG because of genetic manipulation; we've got reasons why the vulcans and Romulans and Andorians are similiar but different. Where are the Moslems in humanity's future? Enquirering minds want to know.
Ask Braga or Berman. However, there is NO religious identification of ANYONE on Trek. You never noticed? Why would Muslims be identified as such?
You and I know that it is all in good fun, but to those already skiddish of the world of science fiction, it only serves to back up their blanket assumption that lovers of scifi are nothing but geeks without lives.
I can only recall Vulcans meditating.
Did you know that companies pay their employees to stand in line in waiting for the movie as publicity for the money they give to charity?
Initial contact between the Human and Klingon empire was with Human-Klingon hybrids...
The original ST Klingons were not full Klingons.. apparently there were other hybrids as well, i.e., Klingon-Vulcan, etc.. ( K-Ferrengi ? Echhh... )
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