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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: Michael (Odo's file, contact) @ 23:32:29 on Jun 03, 2004

People may tune in to find out about that ending, but they may not do that more than once. Really, who is going to be staying home on a Friday night to watch this? As for the Zero Hour ending, I don't think that the writers have figured it out. As for all those "clues" people are discussing, it's probably just bad research and sloppy writing. I live in San Francisco and that fly-over map looks like contemporary SF. The City has changed a lot since WWII and it wouldn't take a genius to figure out what year it is based on the constant construction of new large-scale buildings here. The only mystery is how the writers will come up with something plausible enough to not get laughed at. Sorry, I enjoyed the last few episodes of ENT, but Zero Hour was...well...a zero.



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By: fullermt53 (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:59:00 on Jun 04, 2004

Has anyone suggested thet tha e alien at the end of Zero Hour is tot a "bad guy". Just because he looks evil doesnt mean he is . I think it would be an interesting twist if it turns out he is there for something other then to mess up the time line.

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