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Posted: 08:02:27 on October 23 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com

The final ratings numbers are in for last week's first-run presentation of "A Night In Sickbay," the fifth episode of the new season. While inspiring a mix of sentiment from reviewers and fans and earning a slightly lower overnight rating than "Dead Stop," the unconventional episode proved salubrious for ENTERPRISE's ailing ratings and takes the spot for the most watched installment of the season.

Scoring a 3.9/6, the episode improves for the third week in a row, beating "Dead Stop" by a hefty four tenths of a percentage point (3.5/6). "Sickbay" is the highest rated episode of ENTERPRISE since January 30's "Sleeping Dogs" also managed a 3.9 earlier in the year.

Viewership skyrocketed for the first time this season, climbing from 5.4 million the previous week to 6.26 million--a whopping increase of 860,000 viewers. This is the largest audience for ENTERPRISE since November 28, 2001's "Cold Front" (7.11 million).

In demographic categories the show also demonstrated impressive gains. The Adults 18-49 rating of 3.1/9 is ENTERPRISE's highest since "Sleeping Dogs" and represents a 24% increase from "Dead Stop," or 745,000 viewers in this category.

You'll recall that "Sickbay" received a lower overnight rating than "Stop" -- 5.1 vs. 5.4 -- but yet the final numbers are significantly higher. Overnight ratings are only based on the top 53 markets in the United States and can be skewed by a preemption or reporting error, although what exactly caused the inconsistency here is unknown.

Alexander Chase's FINAL RATINGS: A Night in Ratings Heaven for ENT's Sickbay. Firefly on the brink.

The Wednesday print edition of USA Today has published the final ratings for the week of October 14-20. And what an intriguing picture it makes too! ENTERPRISE's "A Night in Sickbay" confirm a ratings turnaround for the newest Trek series as it soared to its largest audience in nearly a year with 6.3 million viewers; good enough for a 3.9/6 rating and share, securing 4th place for the week.

ABC's Alias and The WB's Smallville both managed to increase their audience from the previous week, again securing the #1 and # 2 slots. For Smallville, last week's red kryptonite episode was the most watched episode ever for that series with 8.9 million viewers; 100,000 more than the series premiere last season.

And the intrigue doesn't end there. For the first time since this correspondent has been doing these TrekWeb ratings round-ups (a season and a half), UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer was beaten for the week by its spin-off, The WB's Angel, in head-to-head competition. The WB's Angel rebounded from a lethargic 4.2 million viewers the previous week to break the 5 million barrier for the first time since Conner disappeared into another dimension.

With all players finally on stage plus a repeat presentation of FOX's John Doe on Tuesday night to boot, UPN's The Twilight Zone and Haunted and ABC's cancelled Push, Nevada were finally pushed completely out of the top 10; all below 4 million viewers. Bringing up the rear was Joss Whedon's Firefly, which experienced yet another drop in viewers despite blanket promotion during the baseball playoffs. Firefly finished with a 2.7/5 for 4.3 million viewers. Firefly is described by USA Today as a series "on the brink" of cancellation, along with UPN's Haunted; both are "likely to be pulled before the November sweeps."

Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy Genre Network Series
October 14-20 (based on number of viewers)

1) Alias (ABC) - 5.9/9 (10.1 million)
2) Smallville (WB) - 5.0/8 (8.9 million)
3) John Doe (FOX) - 4.0/7 ( 6.6 million)
4) Enterprise (UPN) - 3.9/6 (6.3 million)
5) (r) John Doe (FOX) - 3.5/5 (5.4 million)
6) Charmed (WB) - 3.2/5 (5.2 million)
7) Birds of Prey (WB) - 3.4/5 (5.1 million)
7) Angel (WB) - 2.8/4 (5.1 million)
9) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (UPN) - 3.0/5 ( 5.0 million)
10) Firefly (FOX) - 2.7/5 (4.3 million)

NEXT WEEK: Can Smallville continue to increase it audience against the World Series?

You can reach Variety's final ratings report here.

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