So Enterprise has been cancelled. Not a huge surprise, though it does seem to have come at a time when the show was finally starting to produce some good episodes (or so I hear - I’ve only seen the first two seasons).
With the panning received by the last Star Trek film, Nemesis, it looks like this could be last on screen Trek for some while. Probably not a bad thing. It’s been eighteen years since TNG started and television and the world at large has changed a lot since 1987. In many respect Trek has failed to keep up with those changes.
If there is another Star Trek TV series a few years down the line it can start afresh and reflect the views and hopes for the future of those years in the same way that TOS reflected those of the cold war/space race era and that TNG reflected those of the glasnost era.
One positive thing that may happen in the meantime is a flowering of fan efforts. Some of the most imaginative fan works (and also, it has to be said, the works that originally gave us the term “slash”) came out of the 1970s when there was no new Trek being produced. Likewise the most fertile period for Doctor Who fandom has been the years since 1989.
There is, of course, a Save Enterprise campaign.
