Star Trek: Enterprise cancelled

Forgot to post this yesterday: Star Trek: Enterprise has been cancelled. The official press release from Paramount/UPN can be found here.

Considering how the world could very well do with an hour of hopeful outlook at least once a week, that’s a damn shame.

I certainly wouldn’t mind if UPN, the station that showed it and will air the remaining episodes as well, was cancelled instead. That station is such a mess that it was no wonder Star Trek was cancelled. The show kept being messed with by the “suits” who thought they knew what the show should be about, was hardly ever promoted even on their own network (not to mention CBS, MTV, SpileTV, Nickelodeon and all the other stations that are owned by the same company) and then was moved to it’s “death slot” on Friday’s (that’s where the original Star Trek was banished before NBC cancelled it in the ’60s). The franchise has been so thoroughly driven into the ground that it’s likely there won’t be a new Star Trek show for a while.

If you have a chance, catch the remaining episodes. This season has been excellent so far and made the entire show’s run worthwhile. The new (now old) executive producer Many Coto actually had a vision for a change and cleverly tied it into the existing shows rather than contradicting them. But that makes the end of the show even more bittersweet.

All in all though, I doubt that’s the last we’ve seen of Star Trek.