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Rick Berman on Cancellation, Did Not Expect ENT To Get a Fifth Season

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By GustavoLeao / 09:29, 25 April 2005 / Enterprise

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The latest issue of the STAR TREK Communicator magazine, just out in the US, features an exclusive interview with STAR TREK producer Rick Berman, in which he talks about the cancellation of ENTERPRISE. Here are a few excerpts :



Rick, how did you get the news that ENTERPRISE had been canceled?

Berman : I got a call directly from UPN. To be honest, I did not expect the show to get picked up for a fifth season. In a way, I am happy that we found out at the beginning of February, as opposed to the beginning of May, and the reason for that has nothing to do with me "" it has to do with all the people who are involved with the show. All of our actors now are able to go out and read for pilots. Our crew is able to go out and find work on pilots. It is very possible that they might not have mentioned the cancellation until the beginning of May, which would've made both of those things impossible. So that was a sort of blessing in disguise, I guess.

How did the cast and crew find out that the show had been canceled?

Berman : Brannon and I called the entire cast one at a time. We then spoke to each of the department head - there are about 20 of them - and that allowed them to go and speak to all of the people who work for them.

Is it a bit of a somber set these days, or have people begun to accept the news and move on?

Berman : We still have another month of work to do [filming ends March 8, then post-production] so I wouldn't exactly call it 'moving on,' but I think people are accepting the fact. The television business is a very itinerant business. Most people tend to work on a project for a year, two years, sometimes three or four years and then they move on to their next project. We have quite a unique situation here in that we have so many people who have worked with use for 10, 15 and even 18 years. This has been, for a lot of people, their career. It makes the whole 'moving on' concept a little bit tougher.

This has to be a new feeling for you because you've never been canceled or had to tell your staff this kind of news.

Berman : That's very true. We have had a very lucky run - 18 years - and seven of those years we were producing two shows. I think a lot of those facts are practically unheard of in this business.

Berman comments on STAR TREK XI can be found here.

Thanks to 'MvRojo' for the excerpts.

To read the full interview, get the latest issue of STAR TREK Communicator magazine at your local newstand.



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By: falcon (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:43:19 on Apr 26, 2005

You know, for all the bad-mouthing that Rick Berman and Brannon Braga get for the way Star Trek: Enterprise was handled (or mis-handled, depending on who you talk to), it couldn't have been easy for either one of them to learn that their show had been cancelled -- and not only that, but that all the people who had worked on Star Trek in one form or another for 18 years had to go find new jobs.

Laying blame won't bring the show back. Even new leadership at Paramount won't guarantee its return. A new direction, less reliance on Gene Roddenberry's "vision" (while still maintaining a hopeful tone for the future), and better storytelling are just about the only things that will.

Let's hope Manny Coto's pitch for the show (in a couple of years or so) is a strong one.

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UPN angling to dump series, also | Report this post to moderator
By: kzoodata (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:52:20 on Apr 25, 2005

Yup, B&B have done their best for the series, and like Roddenberry did (or was forced to do), should have allowed someone else to step in and carry on (think Gene Coon, Harve Bennett, Leonard Nimoy, and even Berman in th e early years). But as Mr. Bakula mentioned a few times before, UPN's corporate think tank has gone into overdrive and is looking for shows that can be produced for 10 cents.

Our anger should probably not be aimed at B&B's lack of imagination but their inability to let go of the reins. Take a clue for the next movie, boys.


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Berman is irrelevant | Report this post to moderator
By: psp1 (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:02:18 on Apr 25, 2005

When Rick Berman speaks, no one listens.


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  • I really hope that Paramount is just humoring Berman (ntm) | Report this post to moderator
    By: Schpock (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:41:46 on Apr 25, 2005

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    To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big 'thing.' This is truth, to me.


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By: Schpock (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:39:34 on Apr 25, 2005

I would like to present an alternate perception as to why Enterprise failed to find success...

The sad story of Star Trek: Enterprise

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Agree in part, dissent in part | Report this post to moderator
By: The Flashlight (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:35:25 on Apr 25, 2005

While it may be true that Enterprise would have held on to a higher percentage of it's initial audience had the show demonstrated the heightened quality on display this season...

It is also irrefutable that the audience for Trek has been eroding for the past 10 years. There has been a steady decline in viewership ever since the end of TNG (and even TNG's ratings had slipped a bit in season 7). DS9, the series acclaimed by most fans as the best post-TOS Trek, never came close to achieving TNG's ratings. Voyager and Enterprise simply continued and accelerated the downward trend.

The only people currently watching Enterprise are the die-hards, those who would watch someone read the telephone book if it had the Starfleet insignia on the front cover. TNG was able to achieve what no one thought was possible - it bridged the gap between the geek audience and the general public, such that Trek enjoyed a period of pop culture coolness it had never seen before. But that general public audience moved on to other things long ago, and none of these other series was able to win them back.


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Star Trek Taking A "Rest" | Report this post to moderator
By: anti_proton (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:41:46 on Apr 25, 2005

Star Trek does not need a rest. Berman and Braga need a rest. They lost their spark, enthusiasm, and they lost their way producting Enterprise. I keep seeing comments by Berman and Braga saying that the franchise is burned out and needs a rest. That is bull! Enterprise has never been better..because someone who understands what Star Trek is about is running the show now. Enterprise has become the prequel we all hoped for. Up until recently, the stories were tired retreads of other Star Trek series stories, or worse, jumbled messes that didn't even maintain continuity from week to week, let alone with the rest of franchise. People didn't stop watching Enterprise because they were burned out on Star Trek; they stopped watching Enterprise because it WASN'T GOOD! Even if B & B wanted to go in a new direction, people would've watched if the stories were engaging or exciting. (But, hello, don't call the show a prequel if you don't intend to maintain continuity with a well established canon).

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I am tired of hearing that the franchise needs a rest. There are many stories left to tell; the franchise just needs someone with the creativity and vision to tell them

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    By: Sennik (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:46:15 on Apr 25, 2005

    As if we need any more proof that Berman is talking out of both sides of his mouth...

    "Our poor series Enterprise was cancelled in it's fourth season. I guess people are just tired of Star Trek, and we need to give the series a rest."
    [To my incredible astonishment, there were people on this board and others who actually thought he was being honest... and worse yet AGREED with the idiot!]

    Not more than a month later...
    "So we've got a group of producers, and a writer all lined up and we're in the development stages for Star Trek XI. It'll have a grand scope, be a prequel to the other movies, and we hope it'll be really good."
    [So much for "franchise fatigue" huh? And again, to my complete astonishment, there are people, on this board and others, who are looking forward to this movie, and some of them were actually ones who thought Trek needed a rest and don't see the hypocritical nature of saying that and then producing a big budget movie. Some people would follow Rick Berman to "Star Trek: Rambo Strikes Back" and proclaim it's exactly what Star Trek needs.]

    I personally DO NOT agree Star Trek needs a rest. "Franchise fatigue" is a pile of horse sh*t that Berman and Braga fed the viewers to explain the demise of their series instead of actually admitting that it's because they couldn't produce a good hour of TV from one week to the next. If anything, we're all suffering from "Berman Burnout." That's a far more plausible reason as to why Enterprise failed. Get this idiot away from Star Trek. He's already produced 2 flops at the box office, a 7-year series that is bashed for it's lack of intelligence by the majority of the fanbase, and gotten the latest attempt cancelled after 4 seasons. Also, the fact that the last season has been so dramatically better than previous years should make it very clear where the problem has been all along... Berman stepped back, Coto (someone else) took charge of the creative aspects, and fans actually like it.

    Berman is a burnt out old fool and needs to have Paramount retire him with some grace and dignity before he takes Star Trek down the tubes with his career.


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    By: HotStove (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 11:22:20 on Apr 25, 2005

    For all of my problems with B&B, all of the ranting and raving the past few years... Trek had a hell of a run. For this Star Trek fan who remembers the years from 1969-1979 where there wasn't even a movie every so often to whet the appetite, 1987-2005 has been a comparative smorgasboard of Trek. I appreciate the quality effort that all of the people associated with the production of Star Trek have put in over the years. In the words of James T. Kirk...

    "It was... fun."



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