I have read in several trade papers as of late that viewship ratings for Enterprise are dropping and the show may soon be dropped by UPN a.k.a. CBS. And was wondering why. Now I know a lot of you will say that it is because ENTERPRISE sucks. I happen to disagree, while I do agree that the stories are not as though provoking or detailed as TNG and the last part of DS9. BTW Voyager was an absolute piece of crap and it lasted seven years.
Which brings me to another question. Why did B&B make the descion that all ST shows after TNG were going be 7 seasons just because TNG made it that long? I've heard them refer to the fact that DS9 and Voyager both could have kept going for more seasons but their seven years were up. Who they think they are? JMS?
But back to Enterprise. The ratings did not begin to drop until this the 2nd season. Why? In my mind it is because they keep skipping new episodes. In the last seven weeks there have been three new shows. So on Wed nights instead of watching Ent. viewers switched the channel (I know I do) and then find something else they didn't know was on but like better. So they stick to it. People forget to watch and move on. This is bad marketing on somebody's part. The first rule of TV is to never give your audienece the chance or reason to change the channel. They have done this and because of it are losing their show, which actually isn't that bad.
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