UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise'

Tycoon Guy writes "It's official now: UPN has decided to cancel 'Enterprise.' The show's series finale, which may feature Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), will air on Friday the 13th of May. The show's fate was probably sealed when last Friday's episode reached only 2.5 million viewers - but even so, the people at EnterpriseFans.com are still trying to raise money for a fan campaign to save the show."

One Word

[fembots]

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

actually it's "YES!"

Now the question is, will it be rescued by Fox [ew.com]?

SPOILER

[Anonymous Coward]

In the finale, Q takes Riker to the past, present and future to correct the timeline and prevent Enterprise from happening.

Hrm..

[grub]

The 13th of May is my dad's 70th birthday. Do I have dinner with him or watch Enterprise. Decisions, decisions...

I can see the headlines now...

[dennbruce]

a DDOS attach brought down UPN networks late yesterday shortly after news that Star Trek: Enterprise would be canceled. No details were available at this time

Space-Time

[flahavin]

Just let the borg find a "ripple" in the space time cont., and assimulate all the enterprise cast before it all happens, and BOOM.

Doomed when it was moved to Friday

[madstork2000]

There was no chance ever of it being renewed. It was moved to Friday, which we all know is teh death nell for any SciFi show. I mean if FireFly could not cut it on Friday, how the heck is the worst Star Trek show going to have a prayer. B&B blow, and Joss rocked. Damnit bring back FireFly. .. . .

Re:One Word

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait to see how it ends. Will Sam Beckett finally get back home?

Its started with a song...

[computerme]

That stupid, stupid opening theme song..

WTF? Rod Stewart in outer space??

at least we won't have to deal with that anymore...

yet, the only thing worse than the song was the constant statements from the producers stating it would not change...

memo to future producers: when that many people complain about a show, perhaps its time to rethink things.

With apologies to JMS...

[Tackhead]

"Faith manages."
- JMS

"Rick Berman, on the other hand..."
- Trek's fanbase

Cause I've got faith - but no art,
Goin' where the ratings take me,
I've got faith to believe,
Borg chicks sell anything,
Branding strength - but no soul,
Finally the Nielsens break me,
I can sell - any script...
I've got faith... (I've got faith...)
Faith without art...

Save EnterpriseFans.com!

[roshi]

Looks like EnterpriseFans.com needs to start taking up a collection for more robust web hosting.....

Re:How?

[Blue-Footed Boobie]

Please be aware that your post violates Section 231.74 Sub-Paragraph Q23.9 of the US Patriot Act.

Your post will be deleted in 1 hour.

Have a nice day.

how many...

[ultramk]

Q. How many "Enterprise" fans does it take to save a TV series?

A. Both of them.

Thanks, I'll be here all week.

m-

Re:I can see the headlines now...

[rscrawford]

Really? Can one fan arrange all that?

Re:SPOILER

[Anonymous Coward]

Or... "Sam, thank God I found you! Ziggy says there's a 98% chance you've messed up the timeline and pissed off the fans. You've got to fix it before you can leap".

Hmm

[Staplerh]

the people at EnterpriseFans.com are still trying to raise money for a fan campaign to save the show.

Resistance is futile.

Seriously, in this case.

Re:Bummer

[mcc]

So in other words you want HARRY POTTER IN SPAAAAACE.

Re:Bummer

[EnronHaliburton2004]

to die at the hands of of their fellow classmates in horrible science experiments gone wrong, or fatal navigation errors while on internships, or in illegal flying stunts, or...

"Welcome Freshmen, to the Red Shirt Academy!!!"

ONE TWO THREE GO

[genrader]

Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaan!!!

DDOS?

[Fractal Dice]

Distributed Disintrest Of Startrek?

The ratings are so bad, I doubt even the script kiddies are watching it. Trek never really recovered from Shatner's "Get a Life" joke.

Yeah, there was awful writing at times (something Trek has recovered from before), few places left to boldly go in the Trekverse and geekdom's entertainment habbits were moving away from the tv forcing the networks to flail around in search of a new audience, but the "Get a Life" meme was a stigma that eroded all that was good and fun about the fandom.

Re:SPOILER

[mark*workfire]

Q takes Riker to the past, to kill the idiot that chose the theme song. Anytime that show comes on, and that song starts, my wife starts laughing, and laughing....... <click> channel change.

I told them, I told them, I told them...

[eomnimedia]

They should've done "Starfleet Academy: 90210," but they didn't listen to me.

That'll teach 'em.

If I never hear that theme song again...

[b00m3rang]

it'll be too soon. I knew it was doomed to fail the minute they gave up the orchestra for that "faith of the heart" easy listening crap.

Re:I can see the headlines now...

[Anonymous Coward]

just say the word (after the cheque clears, of course)

Re:ST needs a hiatus

[CrackedButter]

*cough* green pussy *cough*

And there was much rejoicing

[snuf23]

Seriously, I'm kind of bummed that they haven't completely pulled out all the stops to get any remaining Trek fans to watch.
Where is the show I want to see. You know the one where Scott Bakula and that guy from Texas fight a whole truckload of Gorn to save the green skinned Orion women from being forced into the green alien sex trade while Q causes a time and dimensional, universal shift bringing the entire cast of TNG racing into battle - only get this - it's the MIRROR UNIVERSE TNG, with Evil Picard and even Evil Wesley showing up.
Oh yeah and of course the Vulcan chick and Seven of Nine find out that, yes, they are in fact space lesbians.

hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone else notice the date of the last episode?

Re:Its started with a song...

[teamhasnoi]

But they did change it! The first season had a slower, more sappy feel - the second season, they added a doubletime jangly acoustic guitar in an attempt to excite the listener. Both sound like a diamond/beer commercial. Ew.

Either way, a surefire way to annoy my wife is me singing, "IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME...." at the top of my lungs.

Re:SPOILER

[thegreat682]

In the final episode will end suddenly when Dianna Troi wakes up frightened and runs into the loving arms of Will Riker. While explaining her nightmare, Riker stops to inform her that everything will be okay. He pauses for a second and then asks "Archer, who is Archer?" The camera will then slowly zoom in on his face. The end.

Re:Blame Voyager

[Penguinshit]

Sirtis is/was a slowly-inflating bag of pus with a hairy back. She was hips-n-tits in the first few seasons, but she joined Frakes in the "expanda-belly" club about the middle of the run. It was pathetic seeing her cinched into ever-tighter belts in a vain attempt to control the spread, only to see the skin bubble around the edges.

Re:ST needs a hiatus

[Tumbleweed]

Dude, if _any_ sci-fi universe's computers run on Mac OS X, it's Star Trek. Yeesh.

Re:I can see the headlines now...

[CrocketAndTubbs]

Actually the DDOS attack was occurring for the last month. UPN finally gave in to the demands of the attackers and cancelled Enterprise.

Re:Bummer

[MalachiConstant]

"Welcome Freshmen, to the Red Shirt Academy!!!"

Most of you will die long before graduation.

But a few lucky cadets, the cadets that excel, can look forward to serving on a real starship and perhaps meeting a real starship captain before being burned alive by a Horta, or absorbed by a vague energy cloud on some backwater planet.

Our fine academy will train you to be a specialist. We have no combat training or engineering classes.

You won't be needing those.

Here you will be trained to creep around a desert planet with a phaser in hand, or perhaps simply wander off on your own and touch any random glowing thing you find. Some of you may major in Provoking Reptilian Aliens, or Ignoring Repeated Warnings.

I myself majored in Agonized Screaming, though I've never had to ... had to ... AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHH... (gets eaten by a Gorn)

Here's the thing

[yoshi_mon]

Every time a thread like this comes up I see a lot of insightful, well thought out reasons on what happened in the past and why what is happening now is good/bad.

This is why most people here are clearly overqualified to ever be a TV executive.

Re:This is really sad.

[dgatwood]

It wasn't that bad. I mean, yeah, roughly half the episodes were direct rip-offs from either a TNG, Voyager, DS9, or TOS episode (and often were rip-offs of a Voyager ep that was a ripoff of a TNG ep), but at least we always got a good laugh out of it all.

And yeah, last season and this season were a lot better. They actually had something of a story arc, heaven forbid.... Of course, it got weird again at the season finale... (wait a second... alien Nazis? Isn't that an invocation of Godwin's Law?), but for the most part it is getting better.

Now that I think about it, I'm suddenly very confused.

Re:This is really sad.

[bechthros]

" This just goes to show you that when television gets better, less people watch it."

I used to watch STE, but once it was in a time slot against "the happy colors show" [tvtome.com] I knew I'd never see it again. Then "the happy colors show" became "a box full of puppies" which in turn gave way to "animal close-ups with a wide angle lens". [tvtome.com] But seriously, have you seen what this kid Craig is doing? He's a freakin' genius...

Re:I can see the headlines now...

[Anonymous Coward]

Posting anonymously for good reason...

I work for the firm that provides support to Paramount Pictures...

Last night I received a call by a user stating that her boss (president of televison for Paramount) was going to get a few thousand email the next day and wanted to know how to filter them out in Notes based on a subject with the words "Star Trek" in them.

Figured this was coming...