ENT's final season would have started this fall

[Rat Boy]

Had ENT continued the trend of Trek spin-offs ending after seven years, the coming fall television season would have marked the beginning of the end. What do you think would have happened plot-wise up to now? How would the characters have progressed up to this point? How would it have ended?

 

[Noname Given]

Had ENT continued the trend of Trek spin-offs ending after seven years, the coming fall television season would have marked the beginning of the end. What do you think would have happened plot-wise up to now? How would the characters have progressed up to this point? How would it have ended?

Nope - it would have been LAST fall.

 

[zenophite]

damn already? time fuckin flies.

 

[Hermiod]

If Enterprise had been enough of a success to last this long it would have also been subject to the same milk it until even the most hardcore fans want to kill it policy that The CW inflicts on Smallville.

 

[ChristopherPike]

He's right it would've been last fall (depending on UPN still existing). Give yourself a brownie point for guessing that there might've been a year's hiatus while Paramount shopped TV Star Trek to another network... but sadly, they didn't bother.

 

[Jeri]

ENT's final season would have started...

Aw, that makes me so sad. I feel a sense of loss when I look at my lonely four seasons sitting there on the shelf. Four seasons is actually a lot; but I would have loved the full seven.

 

[theenglish]

Oh well, at least we didn't have to have thread after thread of discussions bitching that Enterprise's final season was shortened to fifteen episodes because of the writer's strike.

 

[kissthestar]

I suppose T'Pol would have had a relationship or near relationship with what few crew members she had yet to try on.

 

[cooleddie74]

Actually, this past May would have been the seventh-season as well as series finale. Not 2009. ENT premiered two weeks after 9/11. Seven seasons would have carried the show through the just-concluded 2007-08 television season with the finale having aired in late spring.

 

[SFRabid]

Oh well, at least we didn't have to have thread after thread of discussions bitching that Enterprise's final season was shortened to fifteen episodes because of the writer's strike.

I forgot about that. It would have taken 7 1/2 years to get the 7 seasons done.

 

[Bak_and_Blue]

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yep, they'd be getting ready to remake TOS for UPN or CBS and fans would be all worrying about design changes and the casting and canon issues.

Oh, wait a minute...

 

[kipron]

Four seasons is a mighty good run in this day and age, no matter how you slice it.

(And to my mind, also a much more manageable/attractive rewatch than the 7-season behemoths that preceeded it.)

 

[Anna Yolei]

I don't mind that Enterprise got four season. What was stupid was giving the previous two seven with the ratings they had. That whole "we've got plenty of time" mentality that I'm sure TIIC had coming into Enterprise lead to a lot of the lackluster episodes we got in the first two seasons.

"Oh, but other Trek series didn't find their legs until season three!"

Yeah, but other series came at a point where Trek was still loved and had a rather large market. Coming off the heels of mediocre Voyager, this show didn't *have* time to piddle about. I think the threat of cancellation is the ONLY reason Enterprise didn't become even worse off that it was, and why TPTB turned over the day-to-day overseeing to someone who clearly was excited about the job and despite some questionable plot choices in retrospect, did more with some of the characters in one episode than they'd gotten in three years previously to that.

If nothing else, any future series producer won't just take seven years of Trek for granted and will make more of an effort to write a strong Trek series.

 

[Jeri]

Niners set a lot of store by the last three seasons of DS-9; and 7 of 9 was a great character -- one of the best in Trek -- who didn't appear until Season 4 of VOY. I would have loved to see what happened on the last three seasons of ENT.

 

[cooleddie74]

The Earth-Romulan War getting started...Shran as a regular cast member(based on what was said by Manny Coto after the cancellation three years ago). Those two things along make me scream every time I think of the show being killed off too early.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

S5 - Tensions between the Andorians, Tellerites, Vulcans and humans are mitigated by the need to band against a common enemy. Season finale: Earth-Romulan War begins.

S6 - Entire season devoted to the war. Only Earth is fighting officially but Earth-friendly allies among the Andorians, Tellerites, Vulcans play a role. Lots of Shran and Soval. Unbeknownst to everyone, the Romulans have infiltrated Vulcan society enough to keep them out of the fight through duplicity and double dealing. Season finale: all looks lost for Earth.

S7 - Earth is on the ropes but Archer & the gang manage to cobble together the first incarnation of what will become the Federation as an alliance to save their butts. Season finale: Federation officially founded.

I dunno how long the war should have lasted canon-wise, but remember there's no reason that the rule of one season = one year needs to apply.

 

[ialfan]

S5 - Tensions between the Andorians, Tellerites, Vulcans and humans are mitigated by the need to band against a common enemy. Season finale: Earth-Romulan War begins.

S6 - Entire season devoted to the war. Only Earth is fighting officially but Earth-friendly allies among the Andorians, Tellerites, Vulcans play a role. Lots of Shran and Soval. Unbeknownst to everyone, the Romulans have infiltrated Vulcan society enough to keep them out of the fight through duplicity and double dealing. Season finale: all looks lost for Earth.

S7 - Earth is on the ropes but Archer & the gang manage to cobble together the first incarnation of what will become the Federation as an alliance to save their butts. Season finale: Federation officially founded.

I dunno how long the war should have lasted canon-wise, but remember there's no reason that the rule of one season = one year needs to apply.

That's more or less how I picture it as well. Maybe half way through season seven the war is ended and the rest of the season returns to some exploration with occasional talk about a more permanent alliance being negotiated not actually materializing until the finale 2 or 3 part episode set on earth with archer giving his speech perhaps with a story of Archer/T'Pol on the NCC-1701 launch to tie ENT into TOS neatly.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Looking at these ideas (and indeed recalling the many hundreds of posts I must've seen since 2005) it's a real pity we've never been able to piece everything together, co-operate and write our own scripts. How we'd get those episodes represented is another problem... maybe in fan fiction form, as an audio drama, or something altogether more ambitious.

 

[HRHTheKING]

I would have expected Coto to throw more fanboyish Star Trek references together, desperately hoping a coherant plot emerges from one of them.