not necessarily. whatever gets ratings, gets air.
As long as there are Sci Fi fans...there will be a Star Trek...
I liked it, but could never find it after the first season. With 100 and something channels it's extemely important for television networks to make sure that a show doesn't move out of a time slot. They could get away with this with fewer channels, but now shows just get lost.
Understand that the NYT is upset because there Utopian future is finished.
Me I would rather have the B% universe with its untidiness or the mirror universe with its nastiness.
The sixties are finally dead.
Kill Ensign Crusher.
"As Jolene Blalock, who played the Vulcan officer T'Pol on "Enterprise," explained: "The stories lacked intriguing content. They were boring." A lifelong "Star Trek" fan, Ms. Blalock said she was dismayed by early "Enterprise" scripts that seemed to ignore basic tenets of the franchise's chronology, and that offered revealing costumes instead of character development. "The audience isn't stupid," she said."
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My opinion of Ms. Blalock just went up a notch. I always hated that ridiculous outfit too, as well as the mangling of the chronology.
..actually, the last couple weeks of ST:E have been quite entertaining. :/
"Star Trek" has earned its death. Let's hope the upcoming "Star Wars" series will not suffer the same PC fate as their sci-fi cousins.
There's too much good Star Trek already out there to put on a mediocre show and expect people to watch it, let alone several mediocre shows in succession. The two guys in charge are a couple of Hollywood fossils.
It was too PC for my tastes. All sorts of agenda programming.
Someone had to say it.
' "Star Trek: Nemesis" was the series' first bona fide bomb '
My knuckleheaded buddy dragged me to this disaster. Within the first 15 minutes some idiotic android / robot thingsmajig started singing at a wedding. I knew this was going to go dowbhill from there. I had visions of wringing my buddy's neck. Even my buddy started laught at one point and we left half way through. Holy Mackeral, was that a bad movie.
Jean Luc and company were the zenith of the series. I put up with THEIR occasion "agenda" and "messages" ONLY because the characters were the best.
And, after all these years I began to see the newer shows repeat the same ole stories from the original Star Trek. The show had lost its ability to come up with the cash to pay for one or two of Hollywood's 10 good writiers.
Enterprise was actually a good idea, going slightly back in time, but they destroyed it with the unbelievably boring trite old cliches with women and gender. It got downright annoying to watch. I know the guys loved the briefer and tighter twit-tit-butt-crotch-clothes with the more and more lurid, weird sex scenarios, but, for me, enormous yawn-o-rama.
The show was three past its prime, waiting to die.
R.I.P., Star Trek.
Thanks for the memories!
I tried to like this show, but I just couldn't get past Scott Bakula. He's good actor, I liked him a lot in Quantum-Leap for which I thought he was perfect. He really made that part his own. But, in STE he just always seemed to be acting.
That's not what they said. They said UPN's primary demographic is female's, that made it difficult to build Enterprise audience because most of the people that were showing their "free" commercials to (commercial time in other UPN shows) were not in the demographic that watches Star Trek, it also meant no spill over from the previous show, and meant Enterprise didn't provide spill over to the next show. Thus why they kept shifting it in the schedule, add that the previous season really wasn't very good and you've got a major flop situation on your hands.
Really they need to shut down Star Trek for 10 or 15 years, let it rest, let the audience re-juvinate, pick up the next direction of scifi and fit Star Trek into that.
I thought Star Trek was pretty much over when Next Generation ended.
I don't know how they did it, but the Original Series (Kirk, Spock, McCoy) was somehow imbued with that 'Space Race' optimism and "can-do" attitude. Nothing after that felt as compelling, though the Next Generation came close at times.
I couldn't stand Deep Space 9. I mean, I know what a soap opera is. Puttying up noses and claiming it's in space doesn't make it any different.
The two times I tuned into Voyager and Enterprise told me that the staff wasn't capable of assemblinbg even a bad Doctor Who episode.
B & B killed Star Trek. Enterprise never had a chance sadly. Instead of making more Trek, they decided to write a time cops story about somthing which never ever existed in trek before.
A prequel still could be done right - and it can appeal to new viewers. Whether we are talking about the romulan-human war, or getting back to space exploration (the way roddenberry did it in the orginal star trek or even TNG/DS9).
If you ask me, Trek has been in decline since voyager.. essentially since paramount made it to where you could see it on UPN only. Syndication is what MADE Trek viewable. Stations could plug it in where its audience could find it.
anyways..