I've been coping with this dreadful news by trying to find some bright spots amid the gloom. Here's a few things that have cheered me up a bit:
* We got the excellent, totally great Season 4 when it almost didn't happen. Cancellation seemed imminent last year. So the best season of Trek in years is almost like a bonus.
* All four seasons of ST:E wil be available on DVD this year for high-quality viewing.
* The good folks at Pocket Books will hopefully create a series of Enterprise "relaunch" novels. They've done a great job with continuing the DS9 story, hopefully they will do the same with Enterprise.
* It seems to me to be the end of Berman & Co.'s tenure in charge of Star Trek. When the franchise returns someday, I doubt they'll still be running it. Perhaps someone with a fresh approach (one Manny Coto perhap??) will be tapped to create a new series.
* The advanced warning means the cast/crew behind the show can dedicate their all to making the final episode the best ever, and hopefully wrap up some things like the founding of the Fed, etc. And we don't have to worry about a "Farscape" fiasco of ending the show on a cliffhanger.
* Unlike when TOS was cancelled (long before my time, admittedly) there is some really good genre stuff out there to fill the void. I'm loving the new BSG, a Firefly movie is coming out, a new Dr. Who is being launched, etc. So my sci-fi fix can still be found.
All of that said, I'm going to miss Archer, Trip, T'Pol, Phlox, Reed, Mayweather, Hoshi, and most of all PORTHOS! I'm so grateful, though, for four seasons of this show, problems and all.