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Trinneer: Don’t Blame “Enterprise”

Trinneer: Don’t Blame “Enterprise”

August 11, 2011 By Michael Hickerson 5 Comments

It might be easy to blame the demise of Trek on television on the perceived failure of Enterprise.  When the show debuted many assumed it would run seven seasons like the other three modern Treks that came before it.  But then UPN pulled the plug on the show after four seasons, ending the franchise’s 18 year run of new episodes.

Actor Connor Trinneer, who played Charles “Tripp” Tucker on the show says the series itself isn’t to blame for the end of Trek on TV.

“Look, as far as I know, if our ratings weren’t equal to Voyager or to DS9, they weren’t very far off. We were doing the same thing as far as fans, people watching our show, that everybody else was doing in regards to the business side of it. It didn’t seem that different to me,” he tells StarTrek.com. “If you look back at that network and what was airing on that network, we were just the elephant walking through the room. We were not the thing that that network was looking to do by the time we showed up. Voyager was the cornerstone for it. So was our show, for the network, in certain sense, probably in a matter of making money.”

“But in terms of the audience they were trying to get, it certainly wasn’t a science-fiction audience. You know what I mean? And that didn’t help. When you have shows on networks, you want people to stay there because they watch advertising, show after show. You had to go watch our show. That’s not to say that other shows don’t have to have that happen as well, but at the time, on the network we were on, that was the deal. If you were looking for young teenagers doing whatever and then we showed up, you were going to change the channel. But if you were looking for us, you’d watch it,” he added.

“Responsible for any demise? I think that was nonsense. When you look back on it, all of the shows took a couple of years to find their sea legs. And I think, absolutely, we got our sea legs. Is there an argument that you can only go to the well so many times? Absolutely. It’s also an argument I’d agree with. How many years in a row can you keep it going? We happened to be the show that, for whatever reason, they said, “Stop.” They were expensive. They were all expensive. But in terms of what we did and what we accomplished, I think everyone involved with it, myself included, has nothing but pride for what we did and we hang our hat on that,” he continued.

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About Michael Hickerson

Michael was a contributor to Slice of SciFi, as both a news curator and assistant editor, under the tutelage of former News Director Sam Sloan.

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Comments

  1. Chris says

    August 11, 2011 at 9:17 am

    Enterprise was a good show with a great cast. I think under a different producer it could have been much more fresh. The network did not like it and of course the fans were a bit harsh, but with the Romulan War which would have been driver for seasons 5-7 it had a great arc. The mistake was keeping the same leadership over the series as TNG, DS9 and Vgr – Enterprise could have been the reboot.

  2. REM1701 says

    August 11, 2011 at 9:44 am

    Star Trek: TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT >>> IDIC: Infinite Diversity in infinate combinations. Real “Star Trek fans” understand this….

  3. startrekmom says

    August 11, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    It also didn’t help that it was on a network that was not available in all areas of the United States. I liked the show and still miss it.

  4. John says

    August 11, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    I figured it was the producers who just simply got tired of doing it. They burned out after nearly 20 years of shows.

  5. Ben Ragunton says

    August 22, 2011 at 5:55 am

    It breaks my heart that Star Trek (like so many other shows) got the axe far too soon. Once it found its footing it really picked up steam, and the final season of Enterprise was clearly some of the best I had ever seen and really added a lot to the Trek Universe… It would have been nice to see it continue for AT LEAST one more season to see where it could have gone instead of that hacked and hurried ending it got…

    Enterprise became a great show. It’s just a pity that Paramount didn’t see that.

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