Can it be brought back?

[Hopeful Romantic]

Flashback: Alien Nation, a critically-acclaimed but low-rated sci-fi series on the fledgeling FOX network, was cancelled after one season (even though the final episode was a cliffhanger). The show's producers, writers, and fans worked hard to try to convince FOX to resurrect the show, or at least give all the dangling plot threads some resolution. Scripts for two TV-movies were even written, but the network didn't bite.

But the people who loved the show persisted. Five years after the cancellation, Alien Nation came back as a TV-movie that resolved the series cliffhanger. That led to four more TV-movies.

So... never say never. But there are certain necessary ingredients to an Enterprise revisit: passionate fans, passionate filmmakers, and agreeable network execs who would greenlight a pricey niche project targeting loyal Enterprise fans. The existence of a well-received new vision of the Trek franchise does seem to be a formidable monkey wrench.

All that being said, I think an ENT mini-series dealing with the Romulan War would be kickass, and would serve as a bridge between the ENT-verse and both Prime- and Abrams-verses.

 

[Mach5]

Leslie Moonves...

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[Count Zero]

Farscape also came back, but that show ended on a sort of cliffhanger as well.
Enterprise, however, did have closure and I really don't know what stories could be told after 'These Are The Voyages', unless you disregard it, at least partially. It suggested that between the end of 'Demons/Terra Prime' and the founding of the Federation 2161 nothing of importance had happened. All of the main crew apparently survived the Romulan War completely unscathed, no one left for other assignments/life goals, hell, no one even got promoted. And Trip and T'Pol just didn't continue their relationship. It's remarkable how this one episode destroyed nearly all the interesting potential storylines that were present in 'Demons/Terra Prime'.

 

[Voyagerian]

I've read this discussion elsewhere,and there were two sides to it, of course...myself, my first reaction to the possibility...no. Not because I wouldn't WANT it to happen, in whatever form... but, yes, STE isn't as widely known as TOS, along with STV and DS9 in the gen public...and numbers numbers, numbers, that's the thing, isn't it? I certainly have gotten the picture that plenty of ST fans dislike or discount the series, which was to me a worthy prequel, with interesting and engaging characters and premise, and noone's going to change my mind about that...I'm no marketing expert or tv exec, so I can't fully discount a miniseries or straight-to-dvd option as mentioned...The fanbase as I've seen it at a glance may not have the amounts to carry enough worth to someone to make it anew...unfortunately. Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic...but my feeling is it won't happen. We'll see...

 

[Mach5]

It's remarkable how this one episode destroyed nearly all the interesting potential storylines that were present in 'Demons/Terra Prime'.

Sometimes I actually think that that was the whole point. You know, like when people who face foreclosure burn their homes down just so that there's nothing left for the bank... Or like when occupying forces poison the soil upon retreat...

 

[Guardian Bob]

As much as I wish it would, I find it hard to believe. I don't think we'll get a "season 5", but if interest in Romulans increase, it might be inevitable to visit the Romulan War. And Enterprise probably played a role in that, like the books are introducing. You could rename the show and re-do the sets.

But I think the main problem thats holding the show back is the low ratings. I can understand why a studio won't bring back a show that had low ratings, and that kinda breaks my heart...

 

[thedude]

I posted a similar thread a while ago, asking what was being done lately to bring it back... I was really excited to find out what people were doing, learned about some petitions, and generally got excited for nothing.

Look, I want ENT back as much as anyone... I feel it was ended too soon and ended unfairly (as I've stated before, there are 97 EPISODES!!!! And four lights...) but we have to be honest with ourselves... $257,704,099 says nobody cares about old Trek anymore. The future is here, and it's JJ. All we can hope for as Trek (especially ENT) fans is that the next two nuTrek films make BOGUS amounts of money, and JJ is a fan of ENT, and Les Moonves goes away, and maybe... JUST MAYBE... we get an ENT movie.

Although, I was talking with a friend the other day and the idea of a CG-based ENT came up... CHEAP to produce (all you gotta do is pay voice actors... not even the original people) and extremely easy to market to a network like SyFy. After the success of Clone Wars, I truly think this is the BEST option to see new episodes of ENT in our generation.

Also, I know it's not geared towards to ENT (RIP Dollhouse) but this might help those of you holding out hope...

http://io9.com/5405067/the-5-stages-of-fan-grief

 

[Yug]

In this new era of "infinite diversity" of media formats, any number of options can be done. Battlestar, Alien Nation, Farscape, even Firefly got a second chance. Sci-Fi is good that way, there's always a fan base out there. ('cept we're often prone to shitting on everything) A two night mini-series dealing with the Romulan war is a good start for Enterprise, it could lead to more or it could end there, so be it. I'm saying give them one more chance to see Archer's Enterprise... and there is potential for new stories. Not only Romulan first contact, but more Vulcans, Andorians, and other ideas, but also Archers growth as a true leader in Starfleet, his retaionship with T'Pol and her relationship with humans, including the event in her life of Trip's death. Trip was showing her more about humanity, and we could see a real change in her character that would be interesting to explore. The very beginning of the Federation alone would be a fascinating arc, not yet depicted in any real way. The last year of this fine show was a rush job, almost a garbage dump of everything they could have explored in depth... expand it, explore it.

Not to mention what can be done with us knowing their future will change with the arrival of the Narada and all it's effects, we can explore the Vulcans in a different way knowing that the demise of their planet is looming. Lot's more water in the well.

 

[Guardian Bob]

I agree, future trek is probably going to be with JJ. But they will have to do a TV show again, and I doubt its going to be with the new Kirk and crew. That would be really expensive.