There is a certain logic to this argument. It was possible that the franchise had reached (if not surpassed) the point of saturation, and that the whole thing might collapse in on itself. Not only that, there had been twenty-one seasons of Star Trek produced in those fourteen years. After all, by the point that Enterprise launched, audiences had already enjoyed fourteen consecutive years of Star Trek. Rick Berman has talked about the concept of franchise fatigue, and his own deep-seated concern that the Star Trek franchise needed to take a rest from television. The television show broadcast on UPN to fill the slot vacated by Voyager was not what its creators had wanted it to be.
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Nevertheless, the production team have suggested that the version of Enterprise that launched in late September 2001 was not the show they originally wanted to produce. There is a desire to rewrite history and to tailor narratives with benifit of hindsight. The cancellation of Enterprise perhaps explains why the series has been subject to so much speculation and discussion. The franchise had been a massive success for both the studio Paramount and for the network UPN. The franchise had been on the air continuously since the launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Fourteen seasons is a long time in television, and it is rare for any property to continuously succeed over so extended a period. Star Trek had been on the air for fourteen continuous seasons by the time that UPN convinced producer Rick Berman to work on what would turn out to be his final season. Even Star Trek: Voyager was spared the indignity of killing an entire iteration of the franchise. That is what large vocal segments of fandom will remember whenever they are asked their opinion on the show. That is what pop culture will remember of the fifth Star Trek series, when it chooses to remember anything at all. Star Trek: Enterprise will always be the first Star Trek spin-off to be cancelled rather than retired, the first live-action spin-off to run less than seven seasons.
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