10 Sci-Fi TV Shows You Can Quit Before The End

10. Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise was a show that didn't get a lot of love to start off with. It stumbled through its first two largely forgettable seasons with only a few nods to anything interesting, then decided to finally kick it up a notch for the last episode of its second year. The third season saw the well-thought-out Xindi War arc, and the fourth season focussed on actually being a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series (who'd have thought!).

The fourth season covered such Trek-tastic features like the reason some Klingons have smooth foreheads in The Original Series, the forming of the Federation and the beginnings of the first Earth-Romulan War, and the evolution of the Vulcans. All of these stellar plots seemed to be happily ticking along until the show's abrupt cancellation in 2005.

And thus These Are the Voyages series finale was hastily scripted and put into production. The final episode of the series provides not just a ten-year time jump for the main crew, but also a 200-year time jump - as the narrative frame of the episode is Commander Riker and Deanna Troi watching the events in the holodeck of the Enterprise D.

Don't watch the last episode. Leave it at the second-to-last one, Terra Prime. Archer's speech to the gathered delegates may not have been as grand as the actual founding of the Federation that we were hoping for, but it served the same purpose.