Save Enterprise

[The Batman]

http://www.trektoday.com/news/010305_02.shtml



well i was going to donate some money to Cancer research but i've decided to save a TV show instead. ;)

[SUPERECWFAN1]

http://www.trektoday.com/news/010305_02.shtml



well i was going to donate some money to Cancer research but i've decided to save a TV show instead. ;)


Should go ahead and donate It to Cancer Research. They have pretty much said the show Is dead. Unless Berman has rethought the Syndication Idea.

[Ontir]

Don't count the show out yet! Remember that fans saved the original show when it was on NBC, and the fanbase is what made every movie possible, and lead to the Next Generation. Money also talks loud. If a million fans, were to donate a dollar each, I think (as does a friend who works @ Paramount), that TPTB would have no choice but to revisit the issue!

[Donald M.]

The sad thing is, they don't seem to be doing this because Enterprise is a good show, but simply because it's trek.

I wonder if any of these anonymous donors from the "commercial spaceflight industry" (There'sa commercial spaceflight industry? Since when?) have seen even one episode of Enterprise?

If they had, they might have decided to save their money for something worthwhile, use it as toilet paper, or for lighting their cigars.

[Ontir]

The Commercial Space-Flight Industry began with the launch of the X Challenge a few years ago, and the success of Burt Ruttan's Spaceship One/White Knight last year, which lead Richard Branson to invest a vast amount of money into space tourism. There are also a number of companies who were working toward the X Prize, who are still working on their own ventures. It's in its infancy, but it's there, and if you think none of them are watching "Trek," you're out of your mind!

The beginning of Enterprise was certainly lack-lustre, and if they'd cancelled it last season, I wouldn't have missed it. The continued it on, though, and with Manny Coto as the Executive Producer. This one fact, makes all the difference in the world! Since he arrived, he's cut out all the crap that bogged the show down, and moved the series onto a solid path that really makes it a great prequel. It would be a real shame to lose this show now, when the Romulan war and the formation of the Federation is so close on the horizon. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm hoping that TPTB @ Paramount, can be prevailed upon to give Enterprise another chance. preferably as a weekly series, but I'd be quite happy with a few mini-series or TV Movies.

[Leslie Lee III]

What a ridiculous waste of money, I almost feel sick seeing that.

[Rabid Trekkie]

The Commercial Space-Flight Industry began with the launch of the X Challenge a few years ago, and the success of Burt Ruttan's Spaceship One/White Knight last year, which lead Richard Branson to invest a vast amount of money into space tourism. There are also a number of companies who were working toward the X Prize, who are still working on their own ventures. It's in its infancy, but it's there, and if you think none of them are watching "Trek," you're out of your mind!

The beginning of Enterprise was certainly lack-lustre, and if they'd cancelled it last season, I wouldn't have missed it. The continued it on, though, and with Manny Coto as the Executive Producer. This one fact, makes all the difference in the world! Since he arrived, he's cut out all the crap that bogged the show down, and moved the series onto a solid path that really makes it a great prequel. It would be a real shame to lose this show now, when the Romulan war and the formation of the Federation is so close on the horizon. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm hoping that TPTB @ Paramount, can be prevailed upon to give Enterprise another chance. preferably as a weekly series, but I'd be quite happy with a few mini-series or TV Movies.

You know if the show has to be cancelled I would like them to do a TV movie once a month or something to show the Romulan war. That would be cool.

[cactusmaac]

What a ridiculous waste of money, I almost feel sick seeing that.

Exactly. There are much better things to spend your money on.

http://www.redcross.org/index.html

[metr0man]

Its not even a very good show trying to save. Shows liek firefly and farscape and angel were excellent shows. When you try to compare Enterprise to any of those... or to past ST shows like The NExt Generation or Deep Space Nine... its not even in the same league.
Let "enterprise" die, let ST lie dormant for five or ten years until all the current execs and Rick Berman and all them leave, then let someone with some frikken vision do a new show that doesn't suck.

[Dr. Banner]

... then let someone with some frikken vision do a new show that doesn't suck.

Manny Coto, anyone? :)

[Ontir]

The thing is, that if Enterprise were still the show it was at the beginning of last season, I'd say, "Good riddance." In fact, I did that through most of last season, and I'd never have participated in any attempt to save the horrific Voyager, but Paramount brought in Manny Coto, a producer who, for the first time in years, has a clue. He ended the boring temporal war, and got the series moving again. The show, this season, has been alot of fun, and the building arc of the Romulan War and the foundation of the Federation is something I really want to see carried out. I think they should at least let it continue until those arcs are resolved. Are there greater issues in the world than the continuation of a TV show, of course there are, but if you really feel that strongly about it, why are you wasting precious minutes of your life, which you will never get back, sitting in front of a computer, typing messages about non-existent people, who wear their underwear on the outside, fighting bad-guys with super-powers? ;)

[Deathstroke]

I don't know if this is true or not, but here's a potential spoiler for the final episode. (http://www.aintitcoo.com/display.cgi?id=19537)

[Spiff]

If I had to give money to a sci fi show instead of, y'know, real science, I'd give it to Babylon 5 first, then Farscape, then Firefly.

[Crowley]

I don't know if this is true or not, but here's a potential spoiler for the final episode. (http://www.aintitcoo.com/display.cgi?id=19537)

If the ending is indeed SPOILER:

Trip dies at the end and the episode is a holographic program on the holodeck of the Enterprise-D (yes..."D" as in how DUMB can you get!)which Riker and Troi are observing. The series itself is not a hologram program, but the likelihood of bringing it back after this bullshit is practically zero. You may now commense your saber rattling.
It's a holographic recreation. They could always write that it was a different scenario being played out, but the bottom line is...that this will be the final episode if this is the final season (which is pretty certain, regardless of the hard work done by saveenterprise and united trek). I would say that is a pretty shitty way to go out...especially for a Star Trek series.”


End Spoiler...

then that's a good thing... the series was AWFUL.

[marshal99]

U might as well donate the money to red cross for the tsunami disaster.

[ChrisII]

Regarding the spoiler


The D? how are they going to explain how the actors look older? If they're going to all the trouble of bringing Riker and Troi back, why not have it on their new ship, the Titan?

[Rabid Trekkie]

If the ending is indeed SPOILER:

Trip dies at the end and the episode is a holographic program on the holodeck of the Enterprise-D (yes..."D" as in how DUMB can you get!)which Riker and Troi are observing. The series itself is not a hologram program, but the likelihood of bringing it back after this bullshit is practically zero. You may now commense your saber rattling.
It's a holographic recreation. They could always write that it was a different scenario being played out, but the bottom line is...that this will be the final episode if this is the final season (which is pretty certain, regardless of the hard work done by saveenterprise and united trek). I would say that is a pretty shitty way to go out...especially for a Star Trek series.”


End Spoiler...

then that's a good thing... the series was AWFUL.

That would have to be the worst way to end a series, they need something better than that.

[Leslie Lee III]

I think see what the problem is. It seems like a nice way to tie Enterprise into the rest of the Star Trek universe. It's not like it's a dream sequence or anything.

[Sanagi]

That supposed spoiler sounds bogus to me. Unless the person describing it is missing the point.

[Deathstroke]

Trek United has ended their campaign to get a 5th season. Here's an article about the story. (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30847)

[Ontir]

The series wasn't great, then Manny Coto came aboard, and it was fantastic, but sadly other factors than ratings interfered, and Enterprise is no more.

[darkkeeperjr]

Trek United has ended their campaign to get a 5th season. Here's an article about the story. (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30847)
Damn i too was going to donate a million dollars if they were able to raise the other twenty nine million :rolleyes:

[Dr. Banner]

Regarding the spoiler


Like TNG's finale "All good things", if it's a good story (no proof until it airs that it isn't), then why couldn't they pull it off? Nobody looked the same in the "past" sequences for the TNG episode, yet it's a favourite to many.

People age in real life. Storytelling can only go so far. :D