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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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RE: The finale | Report this post to moderator
By: Steve Krutzler (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:10:23 on Jun 04, 2004

Actually, there are no scripts yet. They're just breaking stories now as the writing staff really just came back.

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It's a rip-off. / We're stepped on, and cheated! / We're flat, stone-cold lied to / But we're not defeated / No!

Halen. "The Dream is Over."

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RE: The finale by PG15 @ 21:56:15 on Jun 04
RE: The finale by Cyrus @ 14:28:42 on Jun 04
    RE: The finale by Steve Krutzler @ 14:30:43 on Jun 04
       RE: The finale by TRexx @ 18:09:47 on Jun 04

RE: The finale | Report this post to moderator
By: timmer33 (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:03:05 on Jun 04, 2004

How about a link to the Morpheus story where he says this?

How do you know TPTB didn't at least know where it was going? Just because no script had been written doesn't mean they don't know why there's an alien (Reman?) in WW2 germany. Don't be so quick to rush to judgement.

I'd point out that THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS part I didn't have an ending when the ep was filmed. The writers had to figure out an ending when they returned from the hiatus. It turned out okay. I'm sure Berman knew the general storyline (i.e. Picard will be saved but have real psychological damage). And I'm sure Berman knows where the ending of ZERO HOUR is going too. It just hasn't been fleshed out yet.

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