No, it is not the State of the Union address (btw, why can't we have a State of the Confederation and sorry the throne speech doesn't cut it) it is the fact that Star Trek:Enterprise is cancelled.
...If Paramount doesn't come up with a Starfleet-staffed show for the fall, and there is no indication one is the offing, it'll be the first time in a decade that an outgoing Trek series has not replaced by an incoming Trek series.
Couple that with the franchise's space-docked big-screen program, and Star Trek, in the words of one Federation expert, "may have run its course." At least for now.
It was the move to Fridays that killed the show for my wife and I. It was just too easy to forget about it.
...To Sparborth, Star Trek isn't terminal; it's just begging for a new format. He, for one, would suggest the TV movie.
"The potential to tell stories is almost unlimited. With such movies it would be possible to realize plot ideas that have long been popular with fans," Sparborth said, suggesting telepics reuniting the Deep Space Nine cast or focusing on the goings-on at Starfleet Academy.
At least there is Battlestar Galatica, which is actually quite good.
