There’s something new, we recently got to know regarding the reasons that led to the cancellation of the last Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: Enterprise.

As far as we knew, by the time, Star Trek: Enterprise was launched in September, 2011 the world had already experienced an overdose of Star Trek episodes.
I mean what else could you expect from an audience that had been constantly bombarded with Star Trek shows, since The Original Series was launched in 1966?
The Animated Series came up in 1973, and was followed by The Next Generation in 1987, Deep Space Nine in 1993, the Voyager in 1995, and Enterprise in 2001.
Apart from these serial bombs, the world was also hit by 9 Star Trek feature films, starting with The Motion Picture in 1979, and ending with Insurrection in 1998.
To be honest, we thought this was the reason for the audience to have lost interest in the series till John Billingsley allowed us a deeper insight into the matter.
According to Dr. Phlox (John’s character for all the four seasons of the Enterprise), it was not the saturation in audience, but it was the degrading quality of the script that failed to interest the audience, anymore.
As John, fearlessly reveals it was greed of the production house that led to the downfall of the last version of the series.
They started interfering in the script to unimaginable levels, as they wanted to serve the audience simply what they had appreciated in all the last productions from the same house. This simply distorted the script, and prevented the writers from doling out something new to the audience.
John, while narrating the reasons behind the show’s pull-out seemed angry deep within with the production house, affairs of which are mainly handled by bean-counters.















