Unless they decide to do what most of the fans want and put new people in charge of Trek and put a new writing staff in place, I dont see the ratings going up.
They have scared people away and i think there is so much on TV these days, people are not going to watch sub par TV (unless its reality TV).
Even there stab at an AIDs allegory wasnt well conceived and it just prooves that the writers are just hashing out product.
Its assembly line Sci Fi now and thats all it is.

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People, everyone on this website. I honestly believe that Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been for a long time now, a few apples short of a fruit basket. Every once in a while they will have a moment of clarity, but are generally trapped in their own minds. But, now .... Now they've don't lost their damn minds. Where have these two been living, under a rock on a deserted island? AIDS has long sense been disassociated with homosexuality. Heteros get AIDS too you know. I say this because "Stigma" was so blatantly about homophobia. If they want to do an AIDS episode they really, really needed to depict a disease epidemic that was spreading through a culture that was ignorant to the disease. A story that depicted miseducation, rumors, and lack of awareness. Depict babies being born with the disease. Seriously, I mean come on.

On the other side of the coin, if they wanted to depict an episode that dealt with PREJUDICE and BIGOTRY, then the answer to that comes from the aftermath of 9/11. After 9/11 many Americans were so angry that they began to vandalize, oetresize, and attack Arab Americans. We've come so far in America, but as soon as a group from another culture does us harm, we immediatly pull our bigotry out of the closet and blindly bash the nearest person with it. That's social relivance. Not this crap.

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This is indeed very good news. It helps back up Paramount and Berman in their point that NEMESIS "performed in line with expectations". The promotional Enterprise trailer before showings of NEMESIS certainly must have helped- even I admit the trailer was much more exciting than an actual episode of Enterprise itself. They can also point out that no decline in ratings means that the "debacle of NEMESIS" failed to turn fans away. Excellent. This helps support the idea of another movie. Their consistency would now allow both even and odd number movies to be similar in quality- no more inconsistency! NEMESIS, for all its faults, helped to finally break the inconsistent trend and have all mediocre movies all the time.
In the next movie, they should have the latex guy hold up a sword- after all, in history's battle, the leader uses a sword to spur on his troops. They should also create a new original movie, like a plot where that deadly radition in the nebulla actually created life, and seemed to somehow miraculously restore Data's body, but not his mind. Taking a damaged Enterprise, Picard risks his career to join B4's Data memories with the body of Data. But some rogue Klingons, seeking the secret to this phenomena, also go out, ready to destroy anyone who stands in their way...this would raise the franchise with an appropriate title like "Star Trek: Resurrection- The Battle for the Box Office has only just begun".

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OOOOOOOOO! The Trek rating are holding flat durings sweeps!!! OOOOO NOOOOO! Does the fate of Trek hang in the balance? And what of the fate of manned space flight? Is the "vision of Gene Roddenberry" at an end? Will the "conquest of space" really be "Mankind's manifest destiny" after all?

The entire prevailing ethos of the 20th century was "Science Uber Alles." As we advance into the 21st century, from observing fact and fiction, it becomes increasingly apparent that that vision is exhausted.

I know the above is blasphemy of the Trek Religion. Fire away, Trekkies.

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Last night, I watched Star Trek Enterprise, and I was utterly horrified. I will never watch the show again. The whole point of the episode was claiming that it is "prejudice" or "bigotry" to be against sick perverts commiting bizarre lewd acts of sexual perversion. The Vulcan mindmeld was being used as a thinly veiled metaphor for sticking your penis up another person's anus. They were advocating revolting abberant deviant lewd acts. Gene Roddenberry would be spinning in his grave. I implore UPN to cancel the show, and for advertisers and viewers to boycott it.

Jeffery Winkler

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I enjoyed the episode last night. The subject matter was thought provoking but I felt some of the cliches would have been better implied than stated. I especialy liked when T'Pol assumed Archer's role at the end when she decided to contact the high command on Yuris' behalf.

The workplace harrassment metaphor between Easel Phlox and Trip was amusing. Trip's conversation with the Doc, after Reed's warning not to, brought a good sense of honor and believability in the character. The chuckle the Phlox and his wife had at the end, "Humans...", really expressed the diversity of their species vs ours.

I was glad to see a tribute to the seven HEROES we lost on Saturday. That event made watching the opening scenes of the credits difficult to watch.

Next week looks good too.

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