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By: Dukat (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:05:44 on May 08, 2004

I just cannot see them cancelling Enterprise now. With Smackdown falling a bit in popularity, it just does not make sense for UPN not to pick up their best show, receiving popular and critical support lately, with the highest ratings (for UPN), and their parent company's prized franchise.

Now season five, that is a different story. And I could see that someone wise might still want to bring in Behr to manage the writing, leaving Berman to handle the business end.

Given the way some things have been played fast and loose with continuity over the past 3 years, I am not so sure that Braga will wrap it up in a way without some magic reset, and still address the historical problems. Behr stands a better chance of fixing some of the problems, while creating compelling television.

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By: Scorned (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:30:00 on May 08, 2004 | (1)

Quote:"I am confident that we are going to get a season 4 from UPN," Berman told the mag several weeks ago,

This guy is in charge of Trek and he doesn't know by now if ENT is getting renewed. Is this guy that stupid? The guy who runs the show doesn't know anything. How SAD is that? I guess he doesn't know, he missed the memo because he is too busy working on another non-trek sci-fi series.


Quote:"I would think that, just for the general sense of stability, our primary goal is to keep the show going on UPN. If it is not picked up on UPN and it could be picked up elsewhere, that would be a terrific thing as well."

Who else would pick up ENT? WB? NBC? ABC? CBS? FOX? No one will want it. There is no money to be made in it. They are expensive episodes to make and they have had to lower the running time just to get more advertisers to buy the show. The fact that the man in charge of Trek doesn't know anything about the fate of ENT is RIDICULOUS. This just shows you how incompetent Berman is. I think the studio has already made its decision and on May 20th will announce that ENT is cancelled. It has been listed on several Canadian stations already that ENT has been cancelled and will not be back. They are just keeping everything up in the air to make the advertisers not pull out the remaining ads. Who would want to keep support a show that has bad ratings and is going to be cancelled.

On May 20th if they announce the cancellation of ENT. You will no doubt see Berman put a spin of "we did a great show"....."those damn fans ruined it". Much like he did for Nemesis. Good job pissing off the fans. Such a brillant guy!! hahaha

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By: BYG-DAMN (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:06:17 on May 08, 2004

Mini Arcs sound good, so long as they are good stories, otherwise we could watch 4 episodes of one bad idea, I'd just tune out until its over.

There still the problem with dull characters, its getting better, but something is still missing.

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By: Picardd (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:01:37 on May 08, 2004

I whole heartedly agree, as a huge Trek fan especially DS9, I love episode arcs. Through the entire 3 seasons of Enterprise I have been watching and waiting for interesting arcs to be presented. but never posting myself now is the time to post I say!

I do have to say that Seasons 1 and 2 had their high points but nothing like Season 3 has been so far. My greatest hope though is that B&B have finally pulled their heads out and realized the need for great writing. Arcs won't do much without great stories to be told. Let's hope that the ideals of Trek are somehow remembered. To search out new worlds and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. And I would add the thoughts "to tell compelling and interesting stories which show humanities ability to find strength in adversity and come out better in the end."

Enuf said.


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By: motionblur (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:32:24 on May 08, 2004

I like the idea of smaller arcs. That would seem to be an interesting way to give a more detailed version of the "explore a new planet each week" concept.

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