Why Enterprise did not fail, By John Sullivan.<br /><br /><br />In February, 2002 - while ENTERPRISE was in its first season, the network that aired all of Voyager and this new show, ENTERPRISE (UPN) was ripped away from Paramount's control and given to CBS, a competing studio located about a mile west of Paramount. Under a new Viacom-driven reorganization plan, Star Trek: Enterprise, the brainchild of the now defunct "Paramount Television Group" would now be aired on a CBS Television Group asset. Personnel at UPN were fired and costs were slashed. UPN Chairman Dean Valentine, and everyone else who had brought Enterprise to the airwaves was gone, and effectively, on February 1st, 2002, almost all advertising for Paramount's favorite TV show was pulled.<br /><br />Dawn Ostroff quickly changed the tune and tone of UPN to make it nearly impossible for Star Trek to continue to thrive there. Yet, it did - far longer than in hindsight we should have expected. If Paramount did make ANY mistakes with Star Trek it was during Season 2, when they allowed Nemesis to escape into release. Following a ten-billion dollar frivilous lawsuit against Viacom by Activision this first season of ENTERPRISE should have been its last. <br /><br />Yet, due to pressures by Paramount, now completely separated from the network it had launched - namely studio head Sherry Lansing (who is now departing) Star Trek stayed around. Even last year, when UPN wanted to cancel it, Paramount paid great amounts of money to UPN so that UPN would not lose any money by keeping the show. (To be fair, they wouldn't make any, either.)<br /><br />So people can sit here and nitpick Star Trek all day long, but in fact, the reasons the show won't be coming back have little or nothing to do with Star Trek or even Paramount Pictures. Star Trek was lost in the confusion of the unpredictable sweeping changes taking place under Viacom at large.<br /><br />The show is now going into syndication, which is a great success for Paramount