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   Is Star Trek Over?   
      
   A third year of shrinking audiences for UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise means   
   potential cancellation, which would make the 2004-'05 season the first in   
   17 years without a first-run Star Trek series, USA Today reported. Coupled   
   with the poor box-office return for 2002's feature film Star Trek: Nemesis,   
   fans of the Paramount franchise face the prospect of no new Star Trek on   
   the near horizon for the first time in a quarter-century, the newspaper   
   reported.   
      
   Longtime Trek executive producer Rick Berman remains sanguine about an   
   Enterprise renewal. "Right now, I'm optimistic the show is going to be   
   picked up for a fourth season," Berman told the newspaper. But, he added,   
   "as to whether [the franchise] could use a rest for a while, that's a valid   
   question. I think, eventually, Star Trek will be taking a breather."   
      
   UPN likely won't reveal Enterprise's fate until it announces its fall slate   
   next week. Viewership is off 43 percent from its first season, and the   
   series suffered its lowest-rated regularly scheduled original episode in   
   April (2.9 million), the newspaper reported.   
      
   Berman and two other producers also are in "very early discussions" about   
   another Star Trek feature film. It would be a prequel, but not related to   
   Enterprise, he said.   
      
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