(from IMDB)
Star Trek will be going where it has not gone since 1986 — off the air. Paramount Television announced Wednesday that the finale of Star Trek: Enterprise will air on May 13 and will not be succeeded by another Star Trek series. Ratings for the show had gone into a tailspin. In an interview with USA Today producer Rick Berman suggested that the production team had burnt itself out: “The fact that we’ve done 624 hours of Star Trek over the last 18 years, you can take one too many trips to the well. There’s a point at which you can reach a sense of overkill.” He indicated, however, that the series could be revived in about three years. “It’s probably good to lay fallow for a while to rejuvenate,” he said. In a separate interview with the Washington Post, Berman said that Star Trek “certainly will be back. Whether it’s two years or five years is anyone’s guess.” Fans of the show indicated that they were resigned to the cancellation of the series, expressing disappointment with recent plots. But one fan lamented: “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I don’t watch anything else.”