Enterprise will go the way of The Original Series

[John Vasiliou]

Bigger in reruns then in it's original run on television.

I seem to recall that the show that started it all wasn't really a ratings hit.

 

[JiNX-01]

Bigger in reruns then in it's original run on television.

I seem to recall that the show that started it all wasn't really a ratings hit.

I believe that too. Enterprise has been picking up fans (this board alone has a slew of new members who signed up here after watching ENT on SciFi or renting on Netflix, et.al.

 

[crouteru]

I'm not so sure...

There was nothing else like The Original Series back in the 60's/70's, but today Enterprise is hardly unique. I'm not bashing the show, I like it, especially the third and fourth seasons, but it will always be in the shadow of the previous four series. Plus, with the new movie being based on the original cast, any more live-action related Enterprise material is unlikely.

 

[pookha]

i dont think it will be to the scale of how more popular star trek was but enterprise not only is picking up new viewers and fans but people who have revisted how they feel about and decided they like it after all.
it did really well during at least the first two runs on sci fi often beating out new programing.

 

[SFRabid]

I agree. It is more popular now than it was during first run. The question may be which becomes the more popular episode, ANIS or "Spoc's Brain".

 

[ChristopherPike]

It's something that comes up often, but back in the day Star Trek wasn't the only sci-fi in town. Countless Irwin Allen shows (a good comparison of families with miltary undertones doing some exploring), The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits strayed often into Trek material... more often than not before Roddenberry etc did.

I'd like to think Enterprise has the right stuff to grow in popularity but there's just nobody out there influentual championing it. Sure Sci Fi are running marathons but they don't do a whole lot more. It's basically treated as filler cable programming in the way Mutant X or Jake 2.0 are. Occasionally a miracle happens and it sneaks ahead of BSG in the ratings but only when they're lax promoting it that week. By 1975, I understand The Original Series still did the rounds on network television and those executives believed in it enough to put on at peak times of the day. Sad to say, my favourite Trek is just crushed under the sheer weight of the 15 years that came before it.

 

[JoeZhang]

I just don't see it - it's bland, full of bad acting and has nothing original or interesting to say.

Yeah trek fans will keep watching it, but trek fans would eat a piece of shit if it came in a box that said "star trek spacefood".

 

[Trekwatcher]

While ENT is very unlikely to ever approach the syndication/rerun success of TOS, I do think the show definitely plays better on repeated viewings than it did during the original run. Even S1 and S2 come off a lot stronger when you rewatch them. I myself really liked ENT much, much more on my second run through the series that I did when it was on the air.

 

[Triskelion]

I just don't see it - it's bland, full of bad acting and has nothing original or interesting to say.

Yeah trek fans will keep watching it, but trek fans would eat a piece of shit if it came in a box that said "star trek spacefood".

Nuh huh! I like tang.

 

[Pensive]

(this board alone has a slew of new members who signed up here after watching ENT on SciFi

Like me

 

[Noname Given]

I just don't see it - it's bland, full of bad acting and has nothing original or interesting to say.

What? We're not talking about Star Trek: Voyager - there's a whole forum for THAT show.

 

[ALF]

My thoughts exactly on the eve of the original cancellation.

It's all good - in retrospect they had a pretty good run. Considering we're in the age of reality shit TV, etc.

The 23rd century just doesn't cut it, eh? What gives?

 

[Nebusj]

Bigger in reruns then in it's original run on television.

I seem to recall that the show that started it all wasn't really a ratings hit.

Well ... I suppose that's possible, although the Original Series did a lot better than Enterprise ever did (against, of course, vastly tougher expectations), and it swiftly carved out a space in the pop cultural lexicon for itself. What are the features of Enterprise which stand out as unique and special and memorable?

 

[John Vasiliou]

Well obviously the main thing is it's the first mission ,and secondly it's has a crew of people with no real code of conduct yet winging it as they go along.

lol there doesn't even seem to be a typical Star Trek command structure yet.

so there are curtain things that stand out if you look for them.

 

[number6]

I just don't see it - it's bland, full of bad acting and has nothing original or interesting to say.

That's how I feel about B5, but people here would defend that piece of trailer trash tv to their dying breath.

 

[1grandpa]

I agree. But, because of the way it ended, it will difficult for Enterprise to make the leap to the big screen. Although, in the hands of a studio exec who is NOT afraid of championing it and with the help of a creative producer, well...

grandpa

 

[Trekwatcher]

I agree. But, because of the way it ended, it will difficult for Enterprise to make the leap to the big screen. Although, in the hands of a studio exec who is NOT afraid of championing it and with the help of a creative producer, well...

grandpa

While I LOVE ENT, I assume there were never be an ENT movie, ever. All I expect at this point are a few good novels and to enjoy my DVD's.

 

[poundpuppy29]

I just wish that they would make a DVD movie and make it so TATV never happened. I loved ENT watched it relgiously just like TNG.

 

[SFRabid]

Bigger in reruns then in it's original run on television.

I seem to recall that the show that started it all wasn't really a ratings hit.

Well ... I suppose that's possible, although the Original Series did a lot better than Enterprise ever did (against, of course, vastly tougher expectations), and it swiftly carved out a space in the pop cultural lexicon for itself. What are the features of Enterprise which stand out as unique and special and memorable?

It lasted 4 seasons instead of 3, it competed against more than 2 other networks/channels, it did not get knocked off the air by Lost In Space, and ummm, ... the actor that played the captain does not make fun of Star Trek fans.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Even if it does go the way, it'll fall short of Enterprise The Motion Picture: The Search For Trip; Sorry Trippers.