Star Trek Paramount Star Trek Ratings Ratings are based on a four star system. One star means that the commercials are more entertaining than the program. Two stars watch if you have nothing better to do. Three stars is good solid entertainment. Four stars means you never dreamed television could be this good.
Endings are hard.
John Sheridan is dying. There are two ways a writer can end a story. The easy way, the standard way, is to end the story with a bang. The other way, the quieter way, the more dangerous way, is to end by validating everything the hero stood for, and yet acknowledge that all good things must come to an end. The Lord of the Rings ends on a quiet note.