Enterprise has been a good show but it had three things working against it from the start.
1.) UPN. The show just doesn't fit with the other trash they play on that network and as a result got little to nothing in the way of advertisement. What commercials they did show looked like they were put together by monkeys and probably scared more people away then they drew in.
2.) Exec Rick Berman. I will be the first person to say that back when he started Rick did a good job running the franchise. Most of TNG was under his run and it was when he took over that the show really took off. At that point though he was just the producer. When Voyager started he began to take on a bigger role on the creative side of things and that is when he began to falter and take the show down with him. Enterprise has had many great episodes but barely any of them had Rick's name attached to them.
3.) One of the most annoying self-righteous fan bases a show could ever have. I have been a Trekkie for a very long time now but have only recently really started paying attention to what the other fans were saying about the show. I wish I has never looked as I discovered that most of them are the most vicious, ungrateful, egotistical (Thinking they could do it better), morons I have ever seen. There is no satisfying the majority of them.
The show it self started strong with one of the best premiers of any "Star Trek" show. It went on to have a fairly strong first season. It was definitely better than TNG or Voy's first season. Then in season 2 it went into a bit of a slump with a strong first 4 episodes followed by a very mediocre stretch lasting until about 2/3rds of the way through when the quality kicked back up again. Then in season three the show really took off with a very strong "Earth-In-Peril Arc" that was some of the best Trek since the end of DS9. Seaon 4 though it really what makes it ashame that the show has been cancelled though.
Thew new producer/writer Manny Coto has proved that he really knows what Trek is about and has delivered one of Star Trek's strongest seasons ever. The min-arc format works great for the show and has provided the opportunity for some of the best stories Trek has ever seen. I'm sad that the show has been cancelled right when it was on route to becoming a great series in the vein of DS9 but at least I have another four seasons of Trek to go back to over the years.
This isn't the end of trek. It will be back in some form and I will be there from the start. I just hope that it can be as good as "Enterprise" is now. Watch this great series. Check it out on DVD and realize why Paramount is a company run by monkeys. They are idiot for canceling this show.
1.) UPN. The show just doesn't fit with the other trash they play on that network and as a result got little to nothing in the way of advertisement. What commercials they did show looked like they were put together by monkeys and probably scared more people away then they drew in.
2.) Exec Rick Berman. I will be the first person to say that back when he started Rick did a good job running the franchise. Most of TNG was under his run and it was when he took over that the show really took off. At that point though he was just the producer. When Voyager started he began to take on a bigger role on the creative side of things and that is when he began to falter and take the show down with him. Enterprise has had many great episodes but barely any of them had Rick's name attached to them.
3.) One of the most annoying self-righteous fan bases a show could ever have. I have been a Trekkie for a very long time now but have only recently really started paying attention to what the other fans were saying about the show. I wish I has never looked as I discovered that most of them are the most vicious, ungrateful, egotistical (Thinking they could do it better), morons I have ever seen. There is no satisfying the majority of them.
The show it self started strong with one of the best premiers of any "Star Trek" show. It went on to have a fairly strong first season. It was definitely better than TNG or Voy's first season. Then in season 2 it went into a bit of a slump with a strong first 4 episodes followed by a very mediocre stretch lasting until about 2/3rds of the way through when the quality kicked back up again. Then in season three the show really took off with a very strong "Earth-In-Peril Arc" that was some of the best Trek since the end of DS9. Seaon 4 though it really what makes it ashame that the show has been cancelled though.
Thew new producer/writer Manny Coto has proved that he really knows what Trek is about and has delivered one of Star Trek's strongest seasons ever. The min-arc format works great for the show and has provided the opportunity for some of the best stories Trek has ever seen. I'm sad that the show has been cancelled right when it was on route to becoming a great series in the vein of DS9 but at least I have another four seasons of Trek to go back to over the years.
This isn't the end of trek. It will be back in some form and I will be there from the start. I just hope that it can be as good as "Enterprise" is now. Watch this great series. Check it out on DVD and realize why Paramount is a company run by monkeys. They are idiot for canceling this show.