A Cardassian bridge. They're all walking around discussing a secret attack on a Fed base.

"Heh, heh. They're shields will be down in seconds. They'll never know what hit them..."

The camera pans over to one of the main characters disguised as a Cardie who reaches under his vest to reveal a com badge. He looks at the camera and gives a little grin.

Cut to black and fuse lights and starts trailing across the screen...

Seriously though, I think they may run out of enemies to be up against. Does the fed really have that many serious threats going on? Especially since the war just ended? And the exploration angle might be totally dropped.

But speaking specifically about enemies, nobody has cleared things up with the ones already present.

But these days the draw has worn off. Sure the episodes are dull at times..but there used be a time when i never noticed.

Give the show a rest and let the pastures grow..then we can let it loose again with greater force

Giskard

Beyond that, I think a lot of this has to do with the nature of the fans themselves. I mean, consider that most fans today have grown up with a constant supply of Trek. It's no great surprise that they've lost their taste for it. I went through a two year period where I hated peanut butter, for instance. In any case, I think this has less to do with the franchise itself than it does with fan burnout.

Aha, you say. Proof a break is needed. Not exactly. For the burnt out, sure. But the at times unpleasent reality is that those of us gathered here do not constitute the majority of Star Trek's viewers.

Personally, I'm unsure. A good show is a good show, and a bad show is a bad show, regardless of when they are released. But taking into account the rapidly changing nature of television, I don't think waiting is a risk Paramount is willing to take. Keep in mind that the number of eyeballs glued to almost everything on network TV has been marginalized over the past decade or so. These days, people rarely can sit through an thirty minute episode without watching three others at the same time. And we expect them to continue to care for years? Why should I stay devoted to a show when I've got five hundred other channels to choose from? And, in another five or ten years, when I can watch almost anything I choose online, created by anyone who wants to create it.

The times they are a changin', and Paramount is no doubt aware of this.

I think a good old exploration show would be good enough. Just keep it in the same general area, so we get some good recurring characters like DS9.

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