Man you Star Trekies...Just Let Enterprise go

A group called Trek United now is raising $32 Million in order to give Star Trek: Enterprise a 5th season. Shows how some go to great lengths to keep something going.

Flashback to the late 1960's, in which two fans of the original Star Trek wrote letters to NBC (who carried Star Trek: TOS during its first run) convincing NBC to run the show for a 3rd Season and they did. Their were people that truly enjoyed the fun of Kirk the Jerk, Spock, and The Country Doctor named McCoy.

After three years NBC moved on but Star Trek took off in syndication as the repeats ran time and again on stations across the country. This allowed several things to happen.

A cartoon series in the early 1970's which then animation powerhouse Filmation produced.

An attempt to revive Star Trek on a late 1970's startup TV Network which never got off the ground.

However with the success of Star Wars, Trekies would see their show made into a motion picture for the movie cinema. It made the money in spite of mixed reviews and many sequels followed.

By 1987 their were four Star Trek movies and the time was right for Star Trek to return to the small screen. However with an aging cast, what can you do. Simple, Flash Forward a 100 years or so and we have Picard, Riker, LaForge, Wolf (a Kilngon) and a show called Star Trek: The Next Generation.

From that point onward Star Trek would be on the small screen in some shape or form. They kept it in the same time line with Deep Space Nine, and Voyager (but putting that crew far far away from home).

But then you would think they would quit after that. No way, they thought they could do it again by flashbacking to the past and creating a Star Trek series before everything else. Thus you have Enterprise. While it started off great, people like me "jumped the shark" and never came back.

In the United Kingdom Sci-Fi was more successful over the years with such shows as Doctor Who (which will soon return after a 15 year hiatus), Blake's 7, Space 1999, The Tomorrow People, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and even the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf.

Thanks to Star Trek Sci-Fi TV has a niche in North America. Their was not much of it here in 1987. Their were some in the 1960's but it struggled in the 70's (unless you count Sid & Marty Kroft's Land of the Lost, or Filmation's live action adaptation of Shazam! on childrens TV and most of the live action Filmation did was mostly Sci-Fi. Their was also the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman for the adults to enjoy with the kids) and more so in the 80's.

Many great Sci-Fi shows came and went and still on the way. Babylon 5, Earth Final Conflict, Andromeda (will end its run this year), Farscape, The X-Files, Sliders just to name a few.

Battlestar Galactica which was well received in the 1970's but short lived now has been remade and even could outlive the original. Unlike the one from the late 1970's, this is NOT for the kids.

Did I not say that Doctor Who is coming back??? Yep that show needed a time out, and you know what? So does Star Trek.

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