Sci Fi Wire reports that the brain freeze affecting Star Trek's writers shows no sign of abating:

Star Trek: Enterprise producers Brannon Braga and Rick Berman told SCI FI Wire that they understood the recent disparaging comments made by cast members about the final episode, but stood by their execution of the series finale. "You have to remember, under normal circumstances, most people probably would have thought this was a very cool episode because it has a great concept driving it," Braga said in a conference call with reporters. "But when it's the final episode of a series, emotions are running very high."

Yes, this last season has been much better. In fact, had they had stories like this the rest of the time, the series wouldn't be ending. Having said that, it's kind of a hot tip when your cast is willing to be publically quoted bad mouthing the finale. And well they should - the finale involves Frakes and Sirtis (Next Gen) watching the Federation ceremony via the Holodeck. The Holodeck? Good gosh, that's the place the writers went when they had no ideas left! Berman was facing the end of Trek on TV for the first time in over a decade, and the best he could come up with is a Holodeck episode?

If Paramount wants to revive this franchise, they need to retire Berman. Send him off to wherever George Lucas has been for the last few years, so that they can have bad sci-fi ideas together, and leave the rest of us alone.