Subj : Re: Why Enterprise Failed
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From : stephen voss
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 03:39:34

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise


> Enterprise failed due to several reasons:
> 
> 1. There was less contact with new species - we had seen them all
> before.

Which is silly...Voyager had plenty of boring "forehead alien of the 
week" episodes and episodes where the alien was completely a special
effect which had gotten old by the end of TNG.

  Some of the best episodess of enterprise were about
the Vulcans and the andorians. They had TOO MANY new species when
we should have learned about the vulcans the andorians, and the 
tellarites(we didnt really learn ANYTHING about them).



> 
> 2. The series should have been set after TNG and DS9, the history was
> already known and there are still a lot of unknowns out there.

Yeah because noone wants to watch movies about WWII or the civil 
war(sarcasm).

Its not the overall history people want to watch its the STORY AND THE 
CHARACTERS. Apollo 13 everyone knew what happened yet it was a hit 
movie, because people cared about the characters.



> In effect, Star Trek had become a serial rather than a series of self
> contained stories over 1 or 2 episodes.  Unless you are an avid Star
> Trek fan, most people just got sick of it and turned off.

24, Babylon 5, Stargate sg-1, ... they were series that turned people 
off. (*cough* bulls--t *cough)

Enterprise turned people off because the series WASNT going anywhere
in seasons 1 & 2. Season 3 had enemies noone gave a s--t about.
When a series is well written and people can easily watch old episodes
they will go back and watch them. You can have both multiyear story arcs
and enjoyable episodes.


> I sincerely hope a new series comes out with better writing, more story
> lines and more unknown species.   It would be a shame for it to
> disappear.


How about better writing, fewer storylines and unknowns species ONLY 
when it serves the plot.

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