UPN announced earlier this month that they were canceling Star Trek: Enterprise due to poor ratings.  No surprises there.

I’ve been an avid Star Trek fan since I was quote young, an obsession I can thank Mom for.  I loved the original series, The Next Generation and Voyager — and even enjoyed some episodes and story arcs in Deep Space Nine (although I never liked the series as a whole).  When Enterprise premiered, I of course found myself sitting and watching it with the expectation that it would be another seven-year run.

Much to my dismay, the series sucked.  It’s too drab (aren’t there other colors in the future besides blue and gray?).  The stories have been terribly boring.  The characters are flat and uninteresting.  The ship design is a cheap knock-off of the Akira class starship we saw in Star Trek: First Contact (simply flip the Akira over and you have the Enterprise knock-off).  The writing was horrific.  Shall I go on?

Despite attempts to save the series with pathetic season-long story arcs, cameos by Star Trek alumni such as Brent Spiner, and some advancements in technology, Enterprise was doomed from the beginning because the same tired people were in charge (hear that, Rick Berman?).

Having ruined the movie franchise for the Next Generation cast (every one of those movies should have been an episode instead), the so-called creative minds behind Star Trek had used up all of their creative talents over the last 18 years and should never have been trusted with a new series.

Although I tried to it, I just couldn’t.  A few episodes here and there were all I could take before I had to, for the first time ever, turn my back on the latest Star Trek series.

I bid farewell to a very bad show that never should have made it on the air.  If Paramount ever wants to try it again, start by getting new people involved instead of the same ol’ schmucks who saw to the demise of the Next Generation movie franchise and burned out their creative talents many years ago.