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May 13, 2005

Enterprise Finale

Lame. Depressing. If I didn't like Jonathan Frakes and the Enterprise cast so much I probably would have turned it off.

[Light spoiler warning.]

You know the reason the finale had to end with "final" things (NX-01 getting mothballed after 10 years, Trip and T'Pol just being friends, a major character dying, etc.), right? So that any hope for reunion movie(s) are killed. I really don't think the series had to end this way.

However, the 8PM episode, "Terra Prime", was pretty darn good. The final scene with Trip and T'Pol was great. (Conner Trinnear, I will miss Trip.)

Comments

I just caught the final episode tonight. I agree that the killing off of Trip was unnecessary. I really liked the cast of Enterprise, actually I enjoyed Enterprise far more than I enjoyed Voyager.

I caught every episode this year, via Torrent of course. I think the full fan base of Enterprise will never be known. When you have a fan base that leans toward the technical side, you generally have people using technology to watch the show. As a result you have no idea how many people are truly watching. No other Star Trek series ever had to deal with the ability of it's fans to choose alternative ways of viewing the show.

I really would like to see this cast again, but I fear your theory is correct and we will never see any of these folks in these roles again.

I'd have to agree that killing Trip was crap. They killed him just for the sake of killing a major character.

I blame the crap that was Voyager for a large part of Enterprise's failure. I think it turned off a lot of people who potentially could have been viewers of Enterprise.

Finally... no reunion show or movie? Come on. They killed Spock and found a way to bring him back. No to mention every other Trek EP is about time travel anymore.

Disapointed. This was the nearest thing to the original series and without the captain getting mushy with the chicks... I guess like most fans, the new series had to measure up to the mythology of the previous shows, however, once you got used to the new crew, ship and aliens it was getting pretty good, the best trek in years, this and the previous season was just bringing the show into its own, I think the producers should have given it one more season, and they would have been on to a winner.

The actual finale.
Jonathan Archer became a galactic ambassador. He kept up a passionate relationship with his sweetheart, the captain of the Columbia II, whenever their schedules would allow.
Dr. Flocks became a professor of multi-species medicine and taught at several universities across the galaxy, using sub-space lectures.
Hoshi Sato became a linguistics professor and taught on earth.
Travis Mayweather piloted the first warp 7 ship, Intrepid.
Malcom Reed worked along side Ambassador Archer as his personal body guard. Malcom continued to blow things up, whenever he got the chance.
Charles Tucker married T’Pol. Together they achieved great advancements in perfecting the engineering of terraforming planets, beginning with Mars. They had 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daughters. They named their first daughter Elizabeth and their second son Charles. Their other 2 children had Vulcan names.
They all continued having adventures and once a year, sometimes on Thanks Giving, they all got together to celebrate each other’s lives.

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