It’s Dead Jim. Oh No, They Killed Archer… Those Bastards!

It is ironic that Enterprise’s demise has come after Berman and Braga stepped out of the way enough to let some real writers make this season the best of the series, and more than distinguished in overall Trek history.

It’s sad that the killers themselves will be writing the series finale.  May they never be allowed to lay hands on any Trek project - if there are any - after that.

Frankly, the Enterprise setup lends itself to feature films, as it gets into the founding and early days of the Federation.  After loosing audience so avidly with the series before allowing it to be good, I suppose the Trek killers have precluded such films from ever happening.  What a shame.

UPDATE:  Aded to today’s Beltway Traffic Jam.

1. Ah, dude, that sucks.  It was finally really getting good.  Sigh.

   Posted by Deb  on  02/02  at  05:49 PM

2. It just never struck me as being very good from the start.  It was a great idea, but there is so much really good Sci-Fi being made right now—SG:SG1, SG:A, Battlestar Gallactica, Andromeda—that I just didn’t see why I should spend any time on ST:E.  Maybe it has gotten better lately, but against something like Andromeda that has been consistantly good and captures a lot of the same themes, it just wasn’t up to snuff.

   Posted by Phelps  on  02/02  at  07:50 PM

3. I think what I like so much about this season is that they’re finally making an effort to make the thing credibly fit into the Trek universe and tell the stories that one would expect them to be telling...some filling in the gaps, and some other, too...it’s as much a “feel” thing as anything.  Maybe it’s my love of TOS showing, in that I like that sort of kick-ass spirit and I love the “how we got here” stories...that’s certainly part of it.  But in some hard-to-define way, the last few story-arcs have felt like Star Trek again in a way that’s been missing from the show.

   Oh, and believe it or not, there are some of us who don’t have cable and so maybe do ahve a different focus.

   Posted by Deb  on  02/02  at  08:01 PM

4. I’ve been loving this season. I like the ‘how we got there’ stories, and I really liked the arc on Vulcan.

   Posted by Ith  on  02/02  at  11:00 PM

5. The SciFi Channel is producing so much stunningly good programming right now that it is well worth stumbling onto Bittorrent and getting some SG1 and Battlestar Galactica.  I only get basic digital, but that gets me Comedy Central, Spike, SciFi and the various Hitler channels, and that covers the vast majority of my viewing.  (And Pro Bowling and Paintball on ESPN.)

   Posted by Phelps  on  02/03  at  02:19 PM

6. Oh, and one of the local affiliates here (I think the CBS channel) shows SG1 in syndication late nights.  Thought I might mention that so you could check your listings.  Zap2It has a good search function (which I haven’t used since TiVo did online scheduling, but did before.)

   Posted by Phelps  on  02/03  at  02:23 PM

7. I’m not quite sure how anyone could think of Andromeda since Robert Hewitt Wolfe was fired as anything but downright awful. Wolfe was an excellent writer, and when he was with the show it was one of the best scifi shows on at the time. It was definitely better than Enterprise was at the time. I’d go as far as saying that years 3-5 have been some of the worst scifi ever made. The stories make no sense. The continuity with what Wolfe set up is shot. The Nietzscheans all act like big lugs with no Nietzchean philosophy behind it. The cast don’t even understand the scripts. It’s scientifically and philosophically ignorant when compared with Wolfe’s intellectual sophistication. The original threads they’d been setting up got completely transformed into nonsense. The original fans have all been alienated, and the best Andromeda fan sites lie abandoned. It’s basically driven by action and effects now, but there’s nothing behind it.

   The reason Enterprise isn’t doing well is because they got really good right when they moved opposite the show with the highest audience in scifi history. I think the idiots who put it there must have been deliberately trying to kill the show. They had a whole fall half-season to move it to avoid facing SG-1, and they decided to cancel it now instead of moving it somewhere where it won’t conflict with the lineup of the other three of the four best scifi shows on right now.

   Posted by Jeremy Pierce  on  02/07  at  10:13 AM

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