oh, the humanity!

yesterday i watched the series finale for star trek: enterprise.  and what did the producers and writers do?  seriously screw it up.  my sister said she doesn't consider it canon, and a lot of other people have said that for them the finale is "terra prime", the two episodes before the finale.  probably just as sad of an ending, without making a joke out of it. 

i mean, when the actors say that the finale is "appalling", that tells you something.

augh!  so, to start with, the whole premise of the episode that it was a holo-program that riker was participating in made sense a little, but took away from the fact that it was the series finale for enterprise and those actors.  also, it was supposed to be six years after the previous enterprise episodes, and while i know that it didn't need to be entirely plausible (transferring or promoting crew would mean that not everyone would be there, which would probably upset people) there were some things that were really disapointing, such as t'pol and trip not being together after everything that had happened before (the baby, the kiss and t'pol asking him to stay, etc.).  and then the real kicker was them killing off trip.  not only did it seem to be completely unnecessary outside of the context of the holoprogram, and not even remotely like something that trip would do, but afterwards none of the crew members seemed upset about it.  t'pol was upest, but about someone else completely, and then reed, travis and hoshi appear at this thing that they were going to and instead of being sad about trip, who they served with for ten years, they complain about their seating.  i just don't understand what they were thinking when they decided this would be a good episode to air.  plus, the bit about shran falling into the wrong crowd thing is kind of fishy. 

i think the best thing to do is to pretend that this episode never existed.  perhaps paramount can recall it, destroy all evidence of it's ever having happened.  then we can just end with "terra prime", and the possibilities it sort of leaves.  i mean, they do make movies, the finale doesn't have to be so final.  i might not be so upset about it, but it's the first time in 18 years they won't be producing any new shows, and they have to go and end it like this?