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"Zero Hour" Finishes Season With Above Average Viewership, Tops Last Year's Finale

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By Steve Krutzler / 18:38, 3 June 2004 / Enterprise

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE went out on something of a high note last week with the twisting season finale "Zero Hour." In addition to setting the STAR TREK world spinning with a cliffhanger ending out of nowhere, the episode also managed to stir more viewers than average to tune in.

Drawing an average of 3.91 million viewers for the entire program according to the final numbers published in the Hollywood trades, "Zero Hour" beats last year's finale "The Expanse" by about a hundred thousand viewers (3.88m). Furthermore, it was the most viewers for a first-run episode of ENTERPRISE since February's "Harbinger."

This also puts the final episode above the season three average of 3.8 million viewers. Other overachievers include the first five episodes of the season, "Twilight," "Similitude," "Harbinger" and a couple others. ENT earned over one million viewers since the beginning of its final six new episodes on April 21st ("Damage," 2.86m). This wasn't enough, however, to keep season three from going out with less viewers than came into it. "The Xindi" was seen by 4.07 million and the following four episodes all had audiences over 4 million.

In the Adults 18-49 demographic, "Hour"'s 1.7/5 is the best showing for the prequel since November's "Similitude" ran away with a 2.1/6. "Zero Hour"'s A18-49 figure beat all but "Similitude" and "Anomaly," "Extinction" and "North Star."

Additionally, viewership during the finale grew from 3.71 million in the first half hour, with 4.1 million eventually witnessing the monkey-wrench cliffhanger that hopes to draw viewers back in the fall.

Thanks to 'Cyrus' for recording the numbers and passing them along!



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By: Talkingdrivelyetagai (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:23:05 on Jun 07, 2004

Question…… Why bother to badge this as Start Trek at all
Answer ……. It pulls in the punters.

Questions …. How do you tie up a whole host of anomalous story lines that run totally at odds with other Star Trek series, especially the original.
Answer …… Time travel, this answer courtesy of a Prof I. Asimov who tied up a whole careers worth of diverse and contradictory story lines with this ploy.

Anyone see Turtledove in the new story line ?

My favourite Generations episode was the skip back in time to meet the tribbles. Quote from Worf on the difference in Klingons “we don’t talk about it”.

Quote for Enterprise “Don’t talk about it”.

Again why badge this as Start Trek


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By: timmer33 (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:45:22 on Jun 03, 2004

I think people will tune in next year to find out what the hell was up with that ending. Love it or hate it, you have to admit that you want to watch to find out just what is going on. Was it an alternate universe? Has the timeline been changed? Are they just back in the past?

HOWEVER, why the hell would they run EXTINCTION next week? That was the season's worst episode. They could easily skip it ... just forget that it ever existed. But no. Paramount is too dumb to see that they should be playing Xindi-only episodes that contribute to the arc. It would be a natural lead-in to the season premiere.

Seriously, why show EXTINCTION? It doesn't make sense.


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