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By: Scorned (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:39:38 on Jan 19, 2005

You sit there and say you want to start fresh with a new management team THEN you want Moore back??

Listen. You can't have "one" person write all of Trek for 20 years etc. Moore has his time...it is time to forget Moore! Let him go play with his silly revamp with the delusions of giving people "some new". haha

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This is probably it | Report this post to moderator
By: Balok (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:22:12 on Jan 19, 2005

In retrospect, it probably would have been better for Enterprise fans if UPN had cancelled it last season. Paramount clearly wanted to continue producing the show for another year, so they would have found an outlet in syndication or elsewhere, which means chances of future seasons would have been more likely. But I doubt Paramount still has the motivation to do that and UPN certainly sounds like it isn't motivated to keep it on the air even at the bargain basement price it's now paying. If UPN cancels Enterprise this season, that will be the end of it, and it's sounding more and more like that's what's going to happen. I expect we'll actually hear an official announcement one way or another in the next couple of weeks and not have to wait until May like last season.

I watch Enterprise regularly out of loyalty to the franchise, but I think only a few episodes out of the entire series were really any good. I won't miss the show at all. I hear a lot of people saying that this season the show is finally getting good. I've got to wonder if we're watching the same show. I can understand people enjoying the Vulcan Civil War arc (though I agree with Deus that it was kind of cartoonish) but it smacked more of damage control than anything else, an attempt to fix the problems created by Bermaga in the first three seasons. I didn't like the Storm Front arc at all and I hated the Augments story arc. The couple of standalone episodes, like Home and Daedelus were pretty bad. I think last season was overall much better, though that's not saying much.

If UPN defies expectations and actually renews the show, fine. But I really think Star Trek in general would be better off if Enterprise were to go away.

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All good things must come to an end | Report this post to moderator
By: Peacekeeper (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:09:49 on Jan 19, 2005

Mr. Moonves appears to have finally seen the light. Star Trek in its current state would continue a slow and painful death if they continue on with sub-standard tv series and critical/Box office movies. They better stop while they are still a litlle ahead, recoup and make a comeback when the time is right. The current competition is too much for enterprise and it doesnt help if the competition is more talented too.
I think its a good idea let star trek rest for 5-10 years and than bring it back with a bang. Let the old guard go for good and bring in new talent. In 5-10 years hopefull people apetite would be wet for some star trek and new blood at the helm of star trek at that point might works wonders.
I am a hard-core trekkie...but that doesnt mean i would let some people just grind trek into oblivion with uncreative and lack-luster production efforts so they can get a steady big paycheck. Better have star trek go with honor rather being a figment of its former glory.
Adieu's...the end in=s near..and its all good.

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That thumping sound you hear... | Report this post to moderator
By: DarkHawke (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:02:09 on Jan 19, 2005

...is yet another nail being pounded in the coffin of the Trek franchise. And as a life-long Trekkie, I say, thank you oh so very much, Mr. Leslie Moonves. If it's obvious to a television executive, blind folks ought to be able to see it: Star Trek needs a rest. It's been flogged mercilessly for 17+ years, with only an occasional care for quality. Let's have done with it for a while. Star Trek survived just fine for 10 years without any new TV series episodes or movies after its cancellation. In fact, it flourished, and became the phenomenon that it is. We need new blood to run the franchise, folks who have a deep love of what Star Trek was and can see how to take that grand tradition forward. We don't have that now, and the only way to get it will be to end the franchise as we have known it.

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On the edge of my seat.. | Report this post to moderator
By: Hbasm (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:25:25 on Jan 19, 2005

This is Star Trek's biggest "cliffhanger" really, and it makes me even more determined to fight for the shows renewal. There is still a slim chance to win...

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Early Warning | Report this post to moderator
By: AX (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:23:48 on Jan 19, 2005 | (1)

I for one would love to see the show continue. This year has been a good one for the show, and I think it would only get better. However one thing, that on the surface looks good, that bothers me is the idea of an early warning so that the show can end properly.

Last year Angel was given such a warning by the WB when it was canceled. This in turn gave the writers an opportunity to craft a proper finale for the series. That's all well and good, but recently it has come to light that if the WB had waited to determine the show's future later in the year it most likely would have been picked up. The television world is so tulmultous, and can change so fast, that even a difference of a month or two can make a vast difference.

I guess it's something of a trade off, but worth keeping in mind all the same.

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By: Ensign Ro-Your-Boat (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 09:47:21 on Jan 19, 2005

Good. The odds of a nice long reprieve for the franchise just go a whole lot better.

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Its Over | Report this post to moderator
By: NAFF (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:58:11 on Jan 19, 2005

Of course it will be canned.

NBC-Universal produce a slick and gritty Battlestar Galatica first episode and Viacom puts on a show that feels like it was written in 1987 about some sad old geezer in a wheelchair.

They have given up, along with half the cast and most of the audience.

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When will it end? | Report this post to moderator
By: W Epemenundus Edrastus Blab (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:30:20 on Jan 19, 2005

Are UPN really going to leave the writing team hanging again this year so they have to film alternate endings?

I thought these cancelation decisions were made about this time of year?

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