Star Trek: Enterprise Creator Regrets Series Finale

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Star Trek: Enterprise creator Brannon Braga regrets the series’ controversial finale episode involving TNG’s Commander Riker.

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5. Enterprise - ‘These Are The Voyages’

By 2005, the Star Trek franchise was showing signs of terminal fatigue, and the decision was made to axe the only Trek iteration still being produced, prequel show Enterprise. It was a shame - the show had been revitalized after a slow start, seasons three and four being massive improvements on what had come before.

That changed with the finale, which took the format of a simulation of the original Enterprise’s final mission from the holodeck of the Enterprise-D some two hundred years later.

That’s right - not only did the final episode perform the dreaded Lazy Time Jump, moving six years into the future from the previous episode, but it was structured around old Star Trek: The Next Generation storylines and characters.

Worse still, the (simulated) death of one of the main cast was given two minutes of acknowledgement in the (simulated) past narrative, and not at all in the (real) present narrative, stripping it of all drama and relevance.

The audience was even robbed of Captain Archer’s historic address to the assembled delegates at the signing of the Federation Charter - a moment that Archer’s crew had been instrumental in bringing about - as Riker and Troi chose that moment to end the simulation.

It was a massive disservice to the Enterprise audience - and for that, matter, the cast, with some voicing their anger to the press before the episode had even aired.