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“Star Trek” has come a long way since Capt. James T. Kirk first helmed the Starship Enterprise in the late 1960s. Decades later, “Star Trek” has become a bankable franchise with fans around the globe. But when “Star Trek: Enterprise” ends on May 13, 2005, television will be without a first-run “Trek” series for the first time in 18 years.

Perhaps, some Trekkers argue, it was time to take a rest. After all, it was 18 years between the original “Trek” and “The Next Generation,” which went on to have a vast following.

Moral relativism had crept into the sparkling “Trek” universe. Some viewers were dismayed; others enthralled.

Maybe there’s just too much competition these days, and the audience is too fragmented.

Maybe, as with people, so with “Trek”: the one enemy that always wins is Time.

Source: CNN