“Enterprise” just got the axe. Read this:
Dave
Great news. Lets hope the stay away from the Star Trek Universe for good.
The series got worse and worse the further they moved away from the original concept.
Agreed.
Political correctness and the trend of Hollywood to take classic concepts and make them hip and modern has ruined a lot of cool ideas.
Star Trek: Enterprise…horrible [xx(]
Sorry folks, I’m a trek fan (you probably figured out) but Enterprise is just horrible. The Next Generation was the best, it had great sub-plots, thought provoking dilemmas and insights to society, not to mention great actors?). Has Star Trek gotten worse as the new series come about? Yes, but DS9 was pretty good in its earlier seasons. We need some screenwriters who understand Trek isn’t about the ships and the sci-fi as much as its a forum about society.
TNG was the best [^]
Don’t worry I also like Star Trek, but some of the newer stories/series and characters really rub me the wrong way.
After Deep Space 9 I think Star Trek was just beaten to death. Meaning the producers saw a Trek market and they just started to feed us crap. I think they should have called it quits after DS9, at least for awhile.
Dave
Never really got into DS9, for me it was just another soap opera transplanted onto space station.
Voyager, IMO, had good potential but that got killed quickly.
I never really could enjoy “Enterprise”. I’m worn out by all the prequel stuff coming out in movies and television. IMO, it isn’t necessary to know how everything in a movie/television show started out, after we’ve seen the end results.
Not sure what is worth a horrible prequel, an even worse sequel or a modern re-interpretation of a great movie(Rollerball, Planet of the Apes, etc). [:D]
That’s seems to be mostly what we are getting now in the cinemas.
Some stories can do with a well done prequel though.
I’ll miss it!
Although it was no where near the standards of TNG, the first few episodes of this year’s season were quite good and showed promise. Of course, after last year’s debacle, the series had to get better!
IMHO, both Voyager and Enterprise suffered from poor writing, but also suffered from horrendous promotion. UPN is a terrible network and Paramount should never have agreed to use them for the ST universe.
I’ll continue to hope for a Star Trek series that mirrors TOS and TNG in format.
I think George Takei wanted to do a Trek show where he is in command of the Excelsior. I’d like to see that if it is true to TOS and the early movies.
Dave
Interesting to follow the ‘jargon’ and terms thrown about to describe the show. “The Star Trek universe” (wasn’t Gene’s original idea that it was our universe and that we were just exploring it?) and “the Star Wars franchise” just turn me off more and more. I have to say that to this day, the original was is and in my view will likely always be the very best - buy a margin so large they should just quit trying with all the spin offs etc.
I hope the actors aren’t too miffed though - it seems many of the crew weren’t made aware of the cancellation right away either. Guess that’s the life in Hollywood.
The way I see Gene Roddenberries “future” of our universe is actually quiet a dark future.
With space travel mostly restricted to military crafts and so on due to the ongoing hostilities with other races. The Enterprise was simply a military exploration craft trying to find new resources and similar.
I guess we can pretty much forget seeing a 1/1000 NX-01 kit from PL.
Well I will defend it… As badly produced as it was by B&B… I found it a breath of fresh air to find out how the world worked before Kirk and Picards time!.. For me, as much as I love Stewarts Picard character, i just found that TNG DS9 and Voyager had gone too well, futuristic and advanced…
Every episode seemed to be the same, and at the last minute, they would try this, or try that, and warp this energy signal, and blah, de dad, de dah… They always got out of a situation by doing something miraculous and enginious, always at the last minute!..I was starting to feel as though there was nothing that they couldnt do, and that us humans must have been the smartest things flying around in space. Because we always saved the day!..
At least with Enterprise, they basically had thier balls in thier hands, and had to roll with the punches… The time travel stuff was a bore… But the rest of it was nice to see!.. I will miss it!.. To see them use a transporter work for the first time, and to have them scared of it… Seeing Malcolms face light up when they worked out about Photon Torpedos and high energy phasers and the like… That stuff is always cool… TNG always had all this neat stuff… But how did they get it?.. It didnt just appear… So Enterprise was good like that in a way!.. So dont go bagging it… B&B never gave it a chance… Blame them if you dont like… I will leave with this final word… Atleast Enterprise was new, and fresh… I know that Star Trek has been around for 30 years. But Enterprise was covering something never done before… On the other hand. Battlestar Galactica is a re-hash… And in my opinion, a really bad one!.. Richard Hatch’s version was always going to get my vote… But, that doesnt really matter, as most the people watching it now, would never have seen or known about the original… And i dont incluse us in that… We are the minority!.. It was developed for a new audience in mind in my opinion…
Chris in Japan
Chris in Japan
I consider my self a big Trekie (can’t wait for the big 1701-A kit from Polar Lights) but I could never get into Enterprise. I To me DS9 was the best Trek that ever was. After it went off the air that was the end of the Trek era for me. Some say it was soap but I think so much of real life is anyway.
Exec Ron Moore of the new Battlestar Galactica was a writer for some of the new Treks and had said that B&B had limited the writers in the direction they could go for stories. If a Trek could be done with characters as realisticly written as the ones in the new Galactica, I’d watch that Trek. Trek just needs a fresh approach to it’s story telling to make it interesting again.
I totally agree about ds9 and voyager, I have always wondered how everything got started in the enterprise unverse, how they got the phasers and when they started to use the transporter and such it was fresh to me to see this.
I think it was stupid for them to place enterprise on a friday because of stargate and atlantis and bsg, I missed a few episodes of startrek because of that. I will miss enterprise!
Cancelled? Too bad. I enjoyed what I saw of it, as I’ve enjoyed all the Star Trek shows.
TOS and ST:TNG are my faves, though. And some of the films.
In my opinion, it was about time it was cancelled. I’ve only seen a hand full of episodes and all of them, in my opinion, were horrible… not even bad, plain horrible. For the record i’m not a huge Star Trek fan but I did enjoy many Voyager and Next Generation episodes.
Thank God for Battlestar Galactica thats on Sci-Fi channel now… I can get my weekly dose of great science fiction.
I am a trek fan too.thought this was not to bad a show that would fill in a lot of history.as the klingons would say It’s a good day to die.