Why Star Trek: Enterprise Actually Has the Worst Ending Ever

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[@kbrock9146]

Scott Bakula got screwed twice in series finales: "Enterprise" and "Quantum Leap". Two series that could have had it all, but instead fell completely apart on the last episode.

[@MadeOfOw]

"A valentine to Star Trek fans"?? It's like tmy partner sent me a valentine explaining in detail how much I'm not as cool as their ex.

[@keiths81ca]

The series finale was an insult to Enterprise fans

[@solo1y]

The final episode was clearly awful, but I feel like the show in general was unjustifiably underrated. In particular the character of T'Pol seems to have been dismissed maybe because the actress was attractive. Her performance of a Vulcan is pretty much bang on all the way through (as was Gary Graham's).

[@andrewwilson4914]

The thing that made me absolutely sick was there was this build up for Typol and Trip to finally truly express their feelings about eachother and say they love each other and eventually bang it out have a kid of there own. It is sad. this show was fun and I loved it. My hats off to the cast. They made me fall in love with this show not the writers. They deserved better.

[@mikegould6590]

Its equivalent to the Dallas "dream sequence" episode, except it turns the entire series into a dream sequence. Its dismissive.

[@Zelomeisterdude]

I remember an interview with Blalock where she said in no uncertain terms (including a lot of four letter terms) how pissed off she was with the finale and how most of the cast felt the same way.

[@shuttlecrossing1433]

Enterprise had a great ending. Because Terra Prime was the last episode.

[@neptunethemystic]

Sometimes I wonder if all Star Trek series are actucally simulations inside a primitive 2D holodeck called "Television"

[@ecliptorcalrissian5014]

I’m STILL mad about the Enterprise finale being a standard TNG holodeck episode barely guest-starring the Enterprise crew. I get that it wasn’t the most popular Trek series, but the people who did enjoy it and had followed it this far deserved better for its ending.

[@michaellangwaller]

Even Jonathan Frakes did not like the finale, calling it an "unpleasant memory" and felt awkward while doing it. Frakes even mention that he felt it was an insult to Scott Bakula and the show and that the show was taken off the air too soon before it found its footing.

[@puellanivis]

Everyone: WTF is this last episode of Enterprise? Did this story line actually happen, or is this just a figment of Riker’s fantasy fanfic?

[@dataportdoll]

The scene between Tripp and Reed was genuinely beautiful, summing up the hope and trepidation of the end, or beginning, of a new Trek.

[@aragonnetje]

The only acceptable last words for trip: "Keep your shirt on!"

[@brianschwartz7356]

Steve Shives: "Has the entire series taken place inside the holodeck aboard the Enterprise-D?"

[@captainufo4587]

Trip's death was meaningless. He died by dealing with some random mooks who were barely seen before and were not central to the story, plus his actions were utterly needless: they dealt with way worse boarding than four guys with a standard laser gun.

[@annetbakker8770]

Even after 15 years after seeing the finale, I still feel angry thinking about it. I came to like the show in the last seasons, the episode Home being my absolute favorite while whishing for a different ending. Home and Terra Prime were dealing with things I had to deal with in my own life and made me absoluty relate to Trip and T'Pol. As a result, TATV felt like a slap in the face, a punch in the gut, an absolute insult. The ENT crew and the Trip and T'Pol relationship deserved a much more better and optimistic ending.

[@captaeh]

As a TNG/DS9 fan, season 4 of Enterprise holds it's own as one of the best of the Star Trek franchise...until the series finale happened.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"lackluster ratings" - today, cable stations would die to have the viewership that Enterprise had. I always thought that ST:E was a decent show that dealt with the knotty problems of writing story lines with already established "canon". It's a shame that the series didn't end properly.

[@alexkaen1701]

The only part about this episode that I liked was for Riker to play the Chef, until then an unseen character. I briefly hoped that the Chef was actually Riker gone time-travelling, an actually interesting plot line.