StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Posted: **2003-10-29 10:16am**

The UPN sci-fi standard-bearer and ABC cop show [LA Dragnet] hit ran last in their respective time slots in the TV week ended Sunday, posting numbers that paled next to once-promising premieres.

When Enterprise (news - web sites), now formally laying claim to the Star Trek suffix, debuted in September 2001, 12.5 million witnessed the launch of the allegedly flailing franchise's fourth series. Last week, it sputtered to a 116th place finish, with just 2.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Yes, the Wednesday episode was a repeat, and, yes, it was up against a World Series (news - web sites) game on Fox, but Enterprise wasn't traveling at warp speed prior to the playoffs. Despite efforts to steam up the three-year-old sci-fi show with a disrobing Vulcan vixen, Enterprise is averaging 3.8 million viewers, down from the 4 million or so it drew last season.

What will it take to get B&B fired?

Posted: **2003-10-29 11:11am**

A sign that the universe is angry...

Really not until this thing runs it course, Paramount is somehow appeased...who knows why.

Posted: **2003-10-29 11:42am**

Yahoo got the number of Star Trek series wrong. They state that ENT is the fourth series of the franchise, when it is really the fifth.

Posted: **2003-10-29 12:09pm**

I originally wrote about the reference to "series" being like the British use of the term, where it's like a season on American TV. When I reread that article, it did refer to Enterprise as the 4th Star Trek program. It was just that well-written. Also, the writer refers to Star Trek as a suffix. Isn't the show now called Star Trek: Enterprise, which would make Star Trek a prefix? Does Yahoo have editors or fact checkers, or can anyone write what they want and they'll put it up?

Posted: **2003-10-29 12:22pm**

....

Huh?

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Enterprise running dead last

Enterprise running dead last