It's not that it's gone; it's that it lasted so long...

[caddyman]

According to Auntie, UPN has axed Star Trek: Enterprise.

The last episode will be number 98, two short of the mythical 100th usually required to let a show into syndication.

So, for the first time in 18 years, there's no new Trek.

Frankly, despite picking up in the current season, I'm rather surprised that it lasted quite as long as it did.

Comments

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

if those two jackasses berman and braga had any sense the last episode would end with Sam leaping into a new situation and Quantam Leap titles at the end of the show.

and Dean Stockwell too. he'd have to be in it.

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Right: now take the whip away from Rick Berman and get someone to take the poor corpse of the horse to the knackers yard to be boiled down for glue.

First time in 18 years there's been no new Trek, and first time in about 10 they haven't been doing the same thing over and over. The franchise hasn't evolved, tried to do anything new or interesting, or tried to keep up with its competitiors which since the late 90s and B5 have consistently and comprehensively outpaced and outclassed it.

The shame is not that Enterprise has been cancelled. The shame is that it survived so long while Farscape, Firefly and so many other clever genre shows faced Madam Guillotin.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

And yet, with Andromeda out there, it still wasn't the worst thing currently in the genre...

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

Good point, well made.

[sea-strands.livejournal.com]

I faded away from it about half way through series 2 but it will always be special to me. Monday evenings we would order Indian food and scarf it watching Enterprise. I still can't eat an onion bhaji without thinking of it.