OT: A Dismal End For Star Trek

[Atrocities]

If there is a topic in the B%G forum we should move this one over there as well. And yes, it was a very insulting final episode for an otherwise fine series.

I am not a professional writer, but I can tell you that any one with any skill could have done a far better job with that final episode than what was done. It truly stinks and it was done dilibrately to punish the cast, crew, and fans of both Star Trek Enterprise and Star Trek in general.

This would have been a good single episode, say for the stupid part where they allow aliens to board without challenge and Trip commits suicide.

However this can be fixed by books and hopefully in the future, albeit an overly optomistic pipe dream, a real two hour final movie like what was done with Farscape.

When it comes to UPN, if the show doesn'talk getto talk, or have references to rap music or other "socially geopolitically correct" and sometimes racisit induendo, then it is not for UPN.

The season was to be 24 episodes, but in January they cut the shows budge by over half and the decision was made that that in order to try and keep the remaining shows up to the quality of the previous ones, they would have to drop to episodes. Everyone can see for themselves how the show suffored because of this. Normally a show like Enterprise would have a running time of 48 to 51 minutes, but Enterprise was little more than a half an hour show at an average running time of 41 minutes. You cannot develop a fan base for a show if it is consistantly being interupted by UPN commericals and crap.

Enterprise was a far superior show to that of say Andromeda, yet even Andromeda got a five year stint.

It sickens me deeply as a fan of star trek to have watched this final episode. It truly was an insult.