It's been a long road...

After four (long?) years, Star Trek: Enterprise is coming to an end.

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I'm going to hide behind a multi-phasic shield and pretend to be surprised. Seriously, was there a trekkie out there who didn't see this coming?

That show was doomed as soon as the opening bars to their new "theme" started playing.

And if the sucky music didn't give it away, the addition of the name "Star Trek" soon after they boldy left the airwaves with just "Enterprise" confirmed that the shows, indeed losing.

It's a matter of formula, really.

Some viewers absolutely hate formulated shows, where everything happens to be predictable. But Trek--like always--defies this reason. In the same way that Trek, no matter how improbable it may currently be, still manages to convince millions of people that they are cadets living in the 24th centery and even get them to pay for the illusion.

Trek is like no other, and I think the producers made a mistake by trying to make it "just like the other shows".

So what if shows like the X-files and CSI and fuck, even Smallville, present some semblance of drama? It's still not Trek. Sure, Voyager and Deep Space Nine may not have lived up to the expectations of The Next Generation, but looking at the time and their respective demographic, who the hell can?

TNG was the only sci-fi show featuring something close to a ship at that time. Now you have at least two or three same themed shows to choose from, and there's also the other Star Trek reruns to compete with.

Personally, I thought the crew was just...boring. I understood the producers need to do something different, but I think their completely revamping the show just put a shocks to a lot of fans systems.

As for bringing in new viewers...why watch a semi-palatable space drama whose technobabble you can barely understand when you can stick to watching just plain ass drama in CSI? Sure, there's still those scientific mumbo jumbo, but you've got nice character drama on the side to give you your bit of soap and the cool 3D scientific explanations to cure you of the technobabble.

Plus, the Trek formula of bringing in the romance in the fourth season may seem a little cheesy, but fucking hell, it sure ass worked!

Not that Enterprise didn't try. But marrying T'Pol off when most of the people were holding out for a Trip-T'Pol union after they've been assured (and disappointed) that there will never be an Archer and T'Pol union just majorly pissed fans off.

Oh well, they've already hinted of something better. And hopefully there will be one.

Here's to ST: Enterprise. Who, after four years of boldly going where no Trek franchise has gone before, finally caved to the networks.