Star Trek was dying because the quality of the writing had declined. If Enterprise made it exciting again it would have retained much more of its original audience, at least enough to stay on UPN.
Didn't B5 plagiarized Star Trek before DS9?
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Declined and stagnated. Arguably, in many respects, throughout DS9, VOY, and ENT, the writing was the same that it was in late-TNG. But that was part of the problem: it remained the same.
I don't see why they couldn't hire some new writers.
I'm speaking to the issues of tone, topics, narrative structure, things like that, things that were dictated from "on high." Star Trek of the nineties and early 2000s had a look and feel that permeated all shows, and the powers that were wished to preserve that, which constrained all writing. It didn't matter which show it was, you could tell you were watching a Star Trek show, often at first glance.
To clarify my initial reply about stagnation, the effect was seen in the writing, but the individual writers themselves weren't necessarily the root cause of the problems leading ultimately to the cancelation of ENT.
It's as if they had hit the self-destruct button on that one.
I'm speaking to the issues of tone, topics, narrative structure, things like that, things that were dictated from "on high." Star Trek of the nineties and early 2000s had a look and feel that permeated all shows, and the powers that were wished to preserve that, which constrained all writing. It didn't matter which show it was, you could tell you were watching a Star Trek show, often at first glance.
To clarify my initial reply about stagnation, the effect was seen in the writing, but the individual writers themselves weren't necessarily the root cause of the problems leading ultimately to the cancelation of ENT.
I'm speaking to the issues of tone, topics, narrative structure, things like that, things that were dictated from "on high." Star Trek of the nineties and early 2000s had a look and feel that permeated all shows, and the powers that were wished to preserve that, which constrained all writing. It didn't matter which show it was, you could tell you were watching a Star Trek show, often at first glance.
To clarify my initial reply about stagnation, the effect was seen in the writing, but the individual writers themselves weren't necessarily the root cause of the problems leading ultimately to the cancelation of ENT.
Thirty-five times the writers were named Berman and Braga.
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