These Are the Voyages... (ENT episode)

"These Are the Voyages..." is the title of the 98th and final episode of the UPN television series, '. It aired on May 13, 2005 in the United States. Written by series creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the episode is the series finale of Enterprise. With no new Trek series planned for the fall of 2005, the 2005-2006 season will be the first year without a first-run Star Trek series since 1986-1987, which was the year prior to the first season of '.

Trivia

• It was reported that "These Are the Voyages..." was originally written for possible use as the finale of the third season in 2004 had Paramount cancelled the series at that point. However, series producer Mike Sussman has denied this in an interview with the Trek Today website, stating that, while the idea for such an episode dates back to the third year, it wasn't written until season 4. http://www.treknation.com/interviews/mike_sussman.shtml Rick Berman later told TV Guide that the episode was always intended for the fourth season finale, even if the series had been renewed.http://trekweb.com/articles/2005/05/16/428942ab236e8.shtml However, in a July 2005 interview, Berman revealed that had the series been renewed, Trip Tucker would not have been killed off.http://www.trektoday.com/news/250705_01.shtml
• The TNG elements of this episode take place during the seventh season of TNG. As a result, Marina Sirtis' accent as Deanna Troi is less pronounced and more British, which is in keeping with the way she played the character towards the end of the series and into the movies.
• This episode contains a large number of references to past Enterprise episodes, ranging from obvious to subtle. One of the more subtle references can be seen when T'Pol holds a small model of the Frankenstein monster when packing Trip's quarters - a reference to the second season episode "Horizon" in which Trip convinces her to watch a Frankenstein movie.
• In the last scene of the episode, after Archer steps into the Council Chamber, Riker walks up to Troi, standing in a walkway behind the audience. A number of behind-the-scenes Star Trek personnel have cameos in the following shots. Enterprise writer-producer Manny Coto is the grey-haired admiral sitting behind Malcolm Reed's left shoulder. To Coto's left is Rick Berman?s assistant on ' and Enterprise editorial staff member, Michael O?Halloran. To O?Halloran?s left is Larry Nemecek, editor of the fan magazine Star Trek Communicator. Behind Coto are a man and a woman, who are Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Enterprise staff writers and the authors of numerous Star Trek novels. As Riker stops when he gets to Troi, the camera pans to the left, and closes in on the two of them. As it does so, a man to Judith Reeves-Stevens' right becomes visible: this is writer and series science consultant Andre Bormanis. To Bormanis? right is a woman in purple: Manny Coto?s assistant, production associate Donna Rooney. To her right, the man who speaks to her at one point, is pre-production coordinator Juan Carlos Fernandez. In front of Fernandez is production associate/producer David Rossi. This use of cameos echoes the finale of ', which also featured the creative staff in a scene set in the holosuite program of Vic's nightclub.
• Coto has suggested that, had Enterprise had been given another season, Jeffrey Combs' character Shran would have been made a permanent addition to the cast.