ABSTRACT

Star Trek is dead; Star Trek has never been more alive. In May 2005, the two-hour season’s finale of Enterprise, titled ‘These are the Voyages’ – was broadcast on Paramount’s UPN network. Perhaps it should have been titled ‘Those were the Voyages.’ There would be no new Star Trek series from Paramount, although a film is tentatively in development. The cancellation broke 18 straight years of Star Trek series, with at least one, and sometimes two series airing at any time. Despair hit the fan community. Letter-writing campaigns were marshalled. Fans fought valiantly, but unsuccessfully, to save Star Trek yet again.