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I'm not sure about this.

They finally get (well, if they do) get Shatner on board and they don't have him playing Kirk one last time ??

The words 'missed' and 'opportunity' spring to mind. If that particular arc doesn't turn out well, I'll be hard pushed to cut them any slack I think :(

It does sound as though they have a plan though!!!

But of course this could be pure misdirection for our benefit :blink:

Thing is though, this is probably going to be Shatner's last appearance in the Star Trek universe. To have him NOT playing Kirk, for me is a little sad. Likewise, if not Kirk, then at least one of his ancestors :(

This whole Shatner thing was ill-conceived from the start. Bringing Shatner into Enterprise can only be an anticlimax, and (unlike Nimoy in TNG) is so obviously a desperate stunt to try and save the sinking ship that is Enterprise.

Why the hell can't they just try and write 22 good stories that don't require publicity casting (hello, Spiner) and tryand save the series full time, rather than for a few weeks when they have a special guest star...

Let's face it, they could have an episode with Kirk, Picard and even Seven getting her assets out and it still wouldn't pull in bigger ratings than it's getting now.

Star Trek has never increased it's year on year ratings, not once. Not TOS, not TNG and not DS9. Now, Enterprise has to achieve this to stand any chance of surviving into a fifth year.

Not to sound too pessimistic but it's never going to happen. As such, like you say, forget the gimmicks, just close the show out with a grandiose arc. :rolleyes:

No... but that would be worth watching :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: ;)

Well that catsuit doesn't exactly leave much to the imagination Ken ;)

It would improve their showing in the lesbian demographic as well.

But pass me and the doc a sick bag.

Now Trip getting his kit off........................................

I don't care what it would do for the ratings but it would do something for me :shifty: :D :D

Good God, not Trip in his gym vest again...... :rolleyes: :lol:

hmmmmm!!!

Seven and T'pol in a lesbian romp, now that would improve the ratings no end I expect. :D :P ;)

Frankly I'm amazed that Berman and Braga haven't hit upon this 'sure fire' ratings winner yet :rolleyes:

Although, I guess there was that episode of DS9 where Dax gets it on with one of her former female lovers :thumbsup:

Oh dear, can't blame B&B for that one. Still, tastefully done, which is more than would be said for anything dreamt up by the chuckle brothers.

Never have you said a truer word!!!

It's funny. You can trace back just where Trek starting going down the pan, to pretty much the time when Seven comes aboard. Which is a shame, Jeri Ryan's a talented actress, it's just B&B seem to excel in exploitation :rolleyes:

and I thought the introduction of 7 was the highpoint of Voyager (hahaha!)

Well there's no denying that it bought a few points to the party :rolleyes:

Just a shame that they were so obviously 'look we have someone with big breasts, please watch us' material :rolleyes:

Which in itself wouldn't have been so bad, but the show completely relied upon Seven all to often. B&B just decided to pamper to the Mutant X crowd and thought that pretty girlies made up for a lack of plot. Pair of f*cking idiots :angry:

You know that, I know that, now we just need Paramount to know that!!

Pretty sure Paramount know that by now Ken ;)

Then why dont they blast the two a~~eholes into outer space or at least fire the pair of them!!!!

They're probably figuring why bother. Cancel Enterprise after Season 4 and then you don't need to sack them, just shuffle them out of the way, in time for a new Trek show.

Well, hopefully :thumbsup:

Hardly fair on the cast of ENTERPRISE though especially after all the improvements last season!!!

It certainly isn't, but network television rarely is :(

Compare, though, to the cast of shows like Firefly and Angel, where the show was cancelled as well, despite being a lot more popular and a lot more successful than Enterprise!

The Enterprise cast have been very lucky - had the series not got the Star Trek name, Enterprise would have bitten the dust years ago...

Plus, of course, it's their choice to stay on - they've known Enterprise is a sinking ship, and if they want to jump off before it dies entirely, they could always do it :)

Both Enterprise and Voyager have traded off the Star Trek heritage. Not even that would have saved Voyager if it weren't for the fact that UPN had trumpeted it as the network's flagship show. As far as Enterprise is concerned, look how quickly they've decided that it should have Star Trek in it's title ;)