ANOTHER STAR TREK SHOW BITES THE DUST

From some email list via This is not a compliment, a quick article by comic book writer Warren Ellis about Enterprise's demise:

And so another Star Trek show descends into TV Hell. I met someone last year who'd been brought in to pitch a new Trek show: but, more than half a year down the line, I haven't heard anything else. So my suspicion is that Star Trek is gone from our screens for a comfortingly long time.

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I do love Star Trek, so one might think that this news would be cause for a few tears. Alas, such is not the case. Some years back, after Star Trek: the Next Generation had finished its seven year run, it became increasingly difficult for me to find time to watch Deep Space Nine and Voyager. My motivation had run out, and I'm still not sure why. When I did manage to watch an episode or two, I usually enjoyed them. Perhaps I had developed other interests. I don't know: what I do know is that I just didn't care anymore. When Enterprise premiered a few years later, I liked what I saw, a more Kirk style Trek, with lots of sexual tension coupled with lots of fist and phaser fighting. Captain Archer was cool, as was the rest of the cast. I was especially fond of the engineer from the South, Trip. So I watched for a couple of seasons, but then the same thing happened. I lost interest, and I don't know why. As with the other two shows, whenever I did tune in, I enjoyed myself, but I never really made much of an effort. Most of this has probably more to do with my watching less television overall than with the quality of the shows, but here we are with Enterprise being cancelled. I feel like I should be bummed, but I'm just not.

Ah, well. Live long and prosper.

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