14 Million Viewers watched ENT's debut, so to say that the 4-5 million is a result of preemption and no advertising is plain wrong. (Referring to comment below)

the best thing for ENT would be to go for say 3 seasons like TOS did, close up shop and release Trek say 5 years down the road with new management, new writers, new series and a new attitude. Set it approximately 15 years after NEM, the Romulans are rebuilding and start off the debut with a Romulan joining the Federation episode and how they have been grateful for receiving such assistance after the Remans destroyed the Senate. Now that would be a great start, but this is just one of many ideas that they could do. But one thing is for certain that they need to do some major revamping and if they can't do that while a series is in midstream, then maybe they need to pull the plug first.

I hate to say it, but the ratings have got to reach at least or close to a 4.0 or better by the end of Season 2 or I'm afraid that it will have to do something along the lines of what I mentioned above.

*crosses fingers*

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Once you chase so many fans away with subpar episodes like ANIS, Marauders and The Seventh it's difficult to lure them back. Being on UPN with its limited advertising doesn't exactly help. Expect the ratings tonight to stay steady or to drop due to the many preemptions in major markets for professional basketball. I know that the Detroit area UPN stations are preempting tonight for the Pistons and I'm fairly certain that there are other major markets preempting Enterprise. How can ENT make any significant gainsm under those circumstances? ENT's audience has a core of about 4-5 million and it will probably remain that way. Scifi isn't that popular a form of entertainment in a mainstream audience that actually admits to watching reality television on a regular basis. Critically lauded though it may have been, Farscape's audience was smaller than ENT's audience. Buffy the overrated Vampire Slayers' audience is smaller. The best thing that could happen to ENT is if UPN went under and it went into syndication for its third season.

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