Paramount shouldn’t pass up the opportunity for a Star Trek: Enterprise streaming movie

Now is the perfect time for a Star Trek: Enterprise streaming movie

Star Trek: Enterprise ended on a weak note, with its final episode incurring the wrath of fans when it was set on the holodeck and included Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) and Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes). That episode didn’t give the wrap-ups for the characters, and, after four seasons, they deserved, as did the fans, so much better.

With Paramount executives looking to create Star Trek streaming movies and Scott Bakula open to returning to the franchise, now is the perfect time for the network to revisit the world of the first Enterprise. A streaming movie could offer essentially a fifth season which had already been in the works. Bringing back Commander Shran (Jeffrey Combs), reviving Trip Tucker (Connor Trinneer), and giving some type of future for T’Pol are three of the many reasons why Enterprise needs to be next in line for a movie.

A streaming movie could give Star Trek: Enterprise the fifth season it didn’t get.

Yes, all the characters are older so there would need to be an explanation for that, but Star Trek is good at explaining away things that don’t make sense. And sometimes, no explanations are given. Look how Star Trek: Picard aged Data and brought Q back from the dead.  We still don’t know how that happened.

So whether it’s “the entire crew has been frozen in time” scenario or they’ve warped to another time period, there is a way to explain the past eighteen years.

The series had so much more potential when it was abruptly cancelled, though producers tried to give fans an ending, it failed miserably. The best thing to do would be to eliminate the finale and pick up where Terra Prime left off with a solid time jump.

Fans aren’t looking for happily ever afters as we certainly didn’t get that with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s ending. We’re looking for a “what happened next” type of ending, perhaps a continuation of the exploration. But most of all, we want to see this crew again, even if all of them won’t return.

And with Paramount looking to focus on more streaming movies in the franchise, it makes sense that the network would turn its eye toward an uncompleted series.