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The series finale of "Star Trek: Enterprise" has finally been broadcast in Australia (almost a year later than in the US, on a Tuesday night at midnight - thank you Channel 9 :rolleyes:). I managed to avoid spoilers, so I was blown away at the finale - although I kinda guessed that the Enterprise would be destroyed in battle (I mean, why else would you stop a series mid-war?).

Anyway, it got me thinking: what if the Sci-Fi Channel didn't buy the rights to "Enterprise" off UPN, so the show was cancelled in 2005 instead of playing out its full seven seasons? Almost certainly we wouldn't be getting the Romulan War TV miniseries they're making now (which should be pretty cool, BTW - I really like the multiple-ships idea, rather than just centering it around one crew), but what would we get instead? A new TV spinoff? A new movie? Nothing, even?

Another thing - what about the production team? Might Rick Berman have quit Star Trek if Enterprise had failed? If so, who would replace him? Or maybe the opposite would have happened: might this have made Berman persuade Brannon Braga to stay?

In case you're wondering, the reason I picked season 4 rather than 3 is because, from what I can tell, if Enterprise had been cancelled after three seasons then Star Trek would basically have been killed off permanently. Season 4 showed a huge increase in quality: even if it weren't enough to save Enterprise, it still might have been enough to save Star Trek.

(OOC: "CoP" = Coalition of Planets, the forerunner to the Federation. If you haven't seen "Enterprise", the Coalition of Planets was formed at the end of season 4)
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