According to a Founder member of the US Victory Motorcycles Group as posted on Startrek.com:
Trekwolf164 Jul. 11 2011, 7:34 pm
TV series live and die by ratings .
Enterprise only drew 2 million viewers average in it's last two seasons.
Not enough people to sell soap and coffee to for most companys buying air time for ads.http://www.startrek.com/boards-topic/33348580/ste-should-it-be-revived-for-another-seasonsThe Ratings are driven by Corporate Advertising responses.
Star-Trek Enterprise was cancelled because of too few advertising opportunities for Corporate Slothes.
Lucille Ball would be turning in her Grave.
— She of course owned & ran the studio which single-handedly produced The Original Series (ToS) of Star Trek, which again was cancelled, back in 1969, just 3-weeks before the first human moonboot was planted on our Lunar Satellite, up yonder.
Star Trek has only been cancelled twice by
'for-profit networks' in its half-century existance.
Therefore the only way to have prevented the 2005 February cancellation of ST (ENT) would to have had the franchise owned by a non-advertising dependant Network - such as - Well, there are not many on The Planet; the only one that comes to mind, is of course Dear Old Auntie BBC.So come on BBC! Get with the big plan, let's get the gears in motion; - for we're off to the stars, and Star-Trek has always been fundamental in laying the groundwork for mankinds' vision of actually trying ...