Bakula Thinks 'Enterprise' Fell Victim To Viacom

[Qasim]

http://www.trektoday.com/news/300705_03.shtml

Star Trek: Enterprise's Scott Bakula blamed UPN for the woes of his series but said it was impossible to predict that the people at Paramount who had supported the franchise would all be gone within four years.

"I would say simply that we've been on the wrong network for four years," Bakula announced in Star Trek Magazine (via TrekWeb). "That hardly ever happens, honestly. If you're on the wrong network you don't make it out of the first year. But because of a lot of history and positioning and, if you will, corporate synergy, we managed to stay alive for four years...we did manage to squeeze four years out of being at the wrong place."

[AGateFan]

...we did manage to squeeze four years out of being at the wrong place."

And out of a crpy premise and a badly written show.

[Qasim]

This story was just weird - why doesnt he just admit he was crap?

[MarshAngel]

Oh please. More likely Enterprise fell victim to Blakula... among other things.

[Dahak]

As much as I like Bakula the person Archer was well a real jerk and annoying.

[Shep'sSocks]

Gotta agree there, Dahak. I adored Bakula in QL, but ol Captain Quantum was a awful person. I blame Bermaga for the whole sorry mess.

[Auralis]

its more a factor of all those.
viacom/paramount didn't cared anymore quickly into the shows run.
the horrid writing in the first season, which lead to the point above.
which alos lead to archer been an lousy captain most of the time.
Now, if season 4 would have been season 1 and be allowed to build from there, it should have been a great series.

[Darkstar]

anybody can make a mistake and due to startreks admiral reputation of being the leading sci fi shows of the 20th century enterprise was the unforunate exception, there was bad writting and the characters were flat but please don't blame scott bakula for his poor perfomance in the show, if he a was such a crap actor he would never have gottnen anywhere in life it was all B&B fault SB thinking he may be suitable for the show was casted but the writting was shabby to say the least his character was crap not him he obviously wasen't the right actor for the role in that respect, but the shows major flaw was B&B the stroylines of season 1-3 were weird and wasent the ST i remebr or wanted to see that was the nail in the casket/coffin season 4 was a good attempt of taking the show in a new direction but its like shutting the stable door after the horse has sprinted off, but please don't let this one bad series make you prejedice against all the shows blame B&B not the actors they can't help the storylines and if they arent fit for the role then B&B should have done a better job of casting the right one or gave up and buggered off the mexico.

[Dahak]

No one said that Bakula is a bad actor. Actually I said "I like Bakula the person Archer was a jerk and annoying." SB decided to make Archer how he was. Now granted Bermaga thought it was a good idea and certainly someone should have told SB to unstick Archer sometime in the 4 seasons.
However I do agree with Bakula that Viacom did a terrible job. I have ranted many times on how incompetent UPN and Spike are because Viacom doesn't care about channels that don't have a "theme".

[AGateFan]

The show and Archer were bad and can be summed up in two words: Water Polo

[Darth Buddha]

Personally, while I agree with the assessment that the show started out with a lousy plot line, and I also agree that Bakula as Archer didn't play very well, I found Season 4 to be different.

Season 4 is when Braga adopted a more hands off approach and Manny Coto stepped in with stories that were in line with Trek canon, that were very remiscent of the best of Trek past, and were really the best Trek I had seen since DS9 wrapped up.

Had Season 4 aired in the right place, I suspect we'd be getting more of the New and Improved ST:Enterprise in a renewed Season 5.

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

...If you're on the wrong network you don't make it out of the first year.

That what could have happen to Stargate SG-1, If it never started on Showtime

[Lightning]

Enterprise was just plain bad! no avoiding the issue and JUST as soon as they seemed to start to get their act together, cancelled