CANCELLED

[General Kang]

Definitely a bummer. Leaves a hole on my Friday nights, to be sure.

I suspect that we have seen the last of Star Trek as a weekly TV series. Given the massive production costs, the vast, VAST amounts of other Trek series available on DVD and in syndication, the competition for viewing time among scifi diehards, and most importantly, given the absolute inability to please even the diehard Trek community (let ALONE reach a broader audience) there is no feasible way to get the ball rolling again once it comes to a stop.

On the other hand, this MAY heighten the desire for a Trek movie or two in a few years (though I doubt it).

Interesting... I spent so much of my childhood without new Trek episodes (TNG debuted when I was a junior in HS) and now next year will be the first in 18 years that there is no new Trek on television.

 

[Guest]

What a sad , sad day. I am in total shock. This is the first Star Trek series that I was able to watch first run and they cancel it. I loved this show and I would like to thank the entire cast and crew for four years of hard work that brought us some of the best hours on recent TV. It hurts to have to say Good-Bye to this ship and its crew. Only time...

One thing is for sure: UPN does not exist for me anymore.

monte.

 

[TheInsideMan]

I’ve said it before – I’ll say it again.

Season 2 killed, KILLED, this show.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Posted by Kevin Thomas Riley:
Now I almost feel foolish for my obnoxious Phloxian optimism!

Well, even though I'm normally a lurker I've always enjoyed your calls for optimism! Thanks for helping keep my spirits up.

While I'm at it, thanks to Coto, Sussman, the Reeves-Stevens, et al for a Megabadass fourth season. (sorry, I had to!) Looking forward to ten more great episodes! I'll cry in May.

 

[Kemaiku]

Posted by OmahaStar:

Posted by EMH Mark I:
So, how do you feel about the News Enterprise has been cancelled?

Giddy/overjoyed/ready to sing "If you're happy and you know it..."

*Gets out crate of beer and gets ready to join in*

 

[Picards Ship]

I don't care if they had cardboard sets and a super 8 if they got a season 5 in syndication.

 

[cooleddie74]

I am finished with UPN for now. Once the last ENT rerun airs at the end of summer I'm not going back to the network unless something else really worthy of my time is on...and right now KEVIN HILL and VERONICA MARS aren't it.

 

[LeandroTLZ]

Posted by Q2UnME:

Posted by Tom Servo:
Another raised glass...*To Enterprise*

*To Enterprise*

*Distributes glasses with Andorian ale all around*

To Enterprise!

 

[joe]

Well I'll have nothing on Fridays.

I say we all go to LA and raid UPN.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I just wanted to poke my head in here and tell you guys how terribly, terribly sorry I am that the show has been cancelled.

I personally lost interest in it a while back, but I've always been pulling for it.

ENT should have been allowed time and room to grow into its potential. I've heard that Coto was doing a solid job.

To the cast and crew who've put in their hard work, my condolences and a thank you for the first season. It was a fun ride.

Good luck to them all.

 

[MagicMirror]

I am NOT HAPPY

 

[joe]

Posted by MagicMirror:
I am NOT HAPPY

Join the club.

 

[cooleddie74]

Posted by joe:
Well I'll have nothing on Fridays.

I say we all go to LA and raid UPN.

You come up with the blueprints and plan...I'll gather 100 angry fans and effigies of Moonves.

 

[Scottys Bagpipes]

Ok, I usually just lurk on this site. But, this really really really pisses me off.

Go to hell, Les Moonves, and the rest of you idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I think I need a drink.

 

[blakbyrd]

How do you pronounce Moonves? I want to make sure I pronunce it right when I scream in anger!

 

['Shippy]

THIS SUCKS!

I'm sad to see the show end when a lot of this season's episodes have been good or great and setting up a prequel feel for the show.

I thought ENT would get another season since UPN has next to nothing of ratings value on it's network. So this floors me even more.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Posted by OmahaStar:

Posted by Yellow Rose:


I feel sick. I saw the news and felt my stomach sink.

overdramatic much? It's just a tv show.

If its just a tv show, why are you so glad that it ended? Why couldn't you just *not watch it*?

People enjoyed this show. They had optimism of seeing new episodes they would enjoy. Now something they've enjoyed is no longer around. Why can't you understand that?

 

[Barbados Slim]

Posted by The Realist:

Posted by lancemach:
I'm not sure why everyone's pissed at UPN. They did their best to keep this show on. Moving it to Friday was a great choice for getting a fourth season, which has been better than the rest.

The show never recovered from the first two and a half seasons of lackluster episodes. People stopped watching. Now that it's good, people aren't watching. It's the same process with all TV series. Enterprise has probably gotten more breaks from a network than any other series ....

I'm afraid nobody's listening. I said much the same thing, albeit less diplomatically, and it didn't even slow the kneejerk UPN bashing.

I'm glad UPN did what they could so TPTB could crank out some real prequel episodes.

People are whining about what a bad network decision it was to cancel it, but at this point with these ratings, it's a far worse decision to keep it around another year. The ratings are just going further and further down.

 

[23skidoo]

Posted by Bad Bishop:
I'm looking at the bright side. The loss of Season 5 might mean that we're one year closer to the next incarnation of TREK--be it on TV or film.

I won't be there. The next series will be treated even worse than Enterprise was and I refuse to put any more emotional investment in a show that gets treated like shit by its network (and I'm sorry -- UPN did NOT do everything it could to keep the show alive. Why would it allow affiliates to preempt it, for example?) and by a small but vocal group of "fans". My signature says it best. Star Trek ended today (or, to be more correct, will end when Episode 22 airs in a few months). After that I'm off to Doctor Who and BSG. Trek is done and it's the bean-counters NOT anyone involved with the creative side of the show (and that includes B&B) who are the guilty parties here.

Cheers

Alex

 

[dukesman]

Well, this SUCKS. I would go off in a wild tirade and blame Paramount and UPN and TPTB, blah blah blah, but it won't do any good. I think this decision was made a LONG time ago unfortunately. UPN as a network is a poorly run organization and will fail as a network soon enough - I guess that's redemption enough.

I am sad to see this show go, as it was my favorite and only consistently watched program over the last 5 years. At least I have my video tapes to watch over and over again until I find the DVDs in the used bin. Paramount won't be getting any of my money for a while...

Congrats to Bakula, Trineer, Blaylock, Keating, Combs, and all of the actors and crew who brought us great entertainment each week. I will miss ALL OF YOU and I hope they know their contributions won't go silently unnoticed by this fan! I can remember cringing at the thought of Bakula in the Captain's chair when I first heard the news...now, I can't see Archer as anyone BUT him...

At least we'll have books to keep us hungry fans satisfied for a while. If nothing else, Coto has given us very rich storylines that have laid the foundation to create multiple novels from in the coming future. I guess in that way, we really won't be without Trek even though it won't be on TV for the first time since 1987. There's still too many stories to tell, whether they be comics or novels or video games to NOT have Trek in some form out there. Have faith, my friends.

"You know, he's really not dead as long as we remember him."