Enterprise's cancellation not due to a drop in quality says Braga

Report date: 3 March 2005
Source: StarTrek.com
Posted by: Trek

Enterprise Executive Producer Brannon Braga told students and faculty at a college east of Los Angeles that the shows cancellation may signal the end of Star Trek's current run on television, but the franchise will return and the rest will do it good, according to StarTrek.com.

"After 18 straight years on the air and 750-some episodes the current run of Star Trek is over. Which is a good thing. It needs a rest," Braga said. "I don't know for how long. It's not up to me, it's up to Paramount Pictures. It could be a couple of years, it could be eight years, I don't know. But it is over for now."

"But why did it end? ... I think literally people had just seen enough Star Trek. You know, 750 episodes. Even if this final episode of Enterprise is the best episode of Star Trek ever made, it's still the 751st." he continued, "There just comes a point when you need a break, and people have seen enough and they've devoted enough of their time and lives. Those people who watched Next Generation, we have found, were largely people in college who have families now, who are in their 40s or late 30s — they don't watch television as much. They had their Star Trek."

"I'm not going to stand here and say the quality of the show declined — I don't happen to think it did — I just think there was too much."

The full article is available at StarTrek.com.

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