With "Star Trek: The Next Generation's" Brent Spiner trying to shake things up tonight on "Star Trek: Enterprise," some critics are declaring that there might be a chance yet for the latest Star Trek spinoff to continue. But one actor says not to count on it.

"I think they wanted the 100 episodes to syndicate," John Billingsley, who plays Dr. Phlox in the series, told Trek Nation. "We'll get that this year. Given UPN's reluctance to pay the full rate, and given the fact that the numbers are the numbers and they're not going to change, I don't know that there's enough of an economic incentive for Paramount to do deficit financing in effect for 22 or 24 episodes a season to go beyond this year.

"I don't mean to speak against my own show, I hope it continues. I've got mortgage to pay and I like going to work every day. But as a businessman who can hopefully look at things pragmatically, I can understand Paramount deciding to put the show on the shelf, put the franchise on the shelf for a few years, and bring it back after some time off with a new crew and a brand new template."

Billingsley said he didn't shed a tear when the Temporal Cold War arc -- in place since the show's beginning in 2001 -- said bye-bye in the first couple of episodes this season.

"I definitely felt as if there was a dictate on high from the network level, or from the studio level, to end the temporal time war, wrap it up immediately," he said. "I tended to concur on the broader point that the temporal time war never really got off the ground, the storytelling was too attenuated, and that it needed to die. At the same time, I think the network forced them to tie it all up so abruptly that the way in which they had to do it was not as deft as it needed to be."

The full interview can be found here.