Jonathan Archer, Badass

I’m a trek fan since the original series started. I didn’t watch Enterprise as much as I would have liked because it became more about war and sex in space and less about good storytelling and sci-fi. The same went for DS9. But in rerun it’s easier for me to pick and choose which episodes appeal.

Dude, are you freaking serious? Being a long-time Trek fan, it’s my opinion that Enterprise was nothing more than an abomination.

Forgetting the fact the Trek timeline had been pretty established and that we had NEVER heard of the NX-01 until this series, the lazy writers and producers decided to fall back on the overused plot device of time travel, so they could side-step any established continuity.

Now, let me just say that I like Scott Bakula. His work in Quantum Leap was just spectacular (There’s a series on DVD you should buy and watch). However, I never felt that he was “captain” material. I dunno, he just never seemed to gel with me.

You’re too far along in the series for me to tell you to bother to quit watching, so go ahead and finish it off, and then forget everything that you ever saw.

Sorry to sound so harsh, but Enterprise was a horrible, lazy and terribly-written entry into the world of Trek. Considering that all other modern ST series lasted for 7 seasons (even Voyager, for god’s sake), there’s a reason that Enterprise was CANCELLED after 4 seasons. Think about it – when you have a cash cow like Star Trek, with millions of built-in fans ready to watch every episode, you need to work pretty hard to screw that up. They succeeded in doing so.

Do yourself a favor, buy the DVD sets for Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica or Quantum Leap and cleanse your palette.

Best Star Trek spin-off series, ever. > DS9 (minus dominion war, that shit was pimp) Voyager, TNG

Enterprise was my favourite of the new Star Trek series. If you ask me, it was the series where they got everything right: costumes, set design, compelling stories, special effects.

And I certainly agree about Archer being a badass, since he spends much of the first season as a naive, “gee whiz, we’re new to the neighborhood, we’d sure like to have you over for a coffee some time” guy when it comes to dealing with aliens. In season 3, when Earth is threatened with destruction by the Xindi, his character completely changes. Wait until you see the final episode of season 3!

I don’t understand why some people moan about how “they messed with the Star Trek timeline”. Um – they’re the Star Trek producers, they’re allowed to do that!

Enterprise was a breath of fresh air for the franchise, and it’s a shame that so many fans were dismissive of the series.

So just think of it as “Enterprise” being historical fiction in the Star Trek universe. This story arch is based on an oral tradition in the ST universe and has nothing to do with the “reality” of historical events. Since suspension of disbelief is required to enjoy ANY sci fi story, let’s make a fictional leap and go with the writers prerogative to come up with something new. I always liked this series (this post inspired me to find it on Hulu and watch it for the second time).

OK. I’m a Long time Trek Fan…I gave Enterprise a chance in the beginning…and it failed, or more Berman and Braga failed Gene Roddenberry and both the original and potential new the Star Trek fans miserably.

Though I did return to it at the end, and it was immensely better in the last year than the first year (wholly crap T’Pol’s wig looked a million times better), the whole Xindi thing just sucked badly, and the way it was resolved was just impotently unimaginative.

Oops, sorry we killed 7 million people on your planet, but we’re glad you cleared up that sphere thing for us, YAY!

Enterprise was NOT “Star Trek,” it was “Enterprise.”

Enterprise, although placed in the same fictional world, was about the first warp 4 “EARTH” Star Ship, and it’s deep space exploration missions.

Remember other ships, even freighter class ships had warp 2 capabilities – what did they only build one or two of each class of ship?! Not likely…this is earth were talking about…

In the original TOS Technical Manual – with the constitution class there were 20 main/flag ships (presumably for all the sectors/quadrants of space), and the A FULL PAGE listing ships names and their registration numbers…There should have been at least 20 warp 2 (overhauled and upgraded?!?!) Earth ships to face off against the Xindi Weapons – let alone Earth’s Vulcan Allies?!?!

Ummm…something was really a miss in that plot line.

Anyway…I was looking forward to the war with the Romulans, but when they were not even spoken about, I knew Berman and Braga had blown it.

Brandon and Braga had a real opportunity to make a long time race THEIR series arch villain, and to expand and build on and amazing rich culture, and to create real plot conflicts with the Vulcans…but I guess they weren’t Borgy enough…they were to…human?

Interesting with what western civilization is facing right now, if they had put a religious face on the Romulans they could have used that to say a lot.

With each successive Star Trek show Rick Berman ran the Star Trek franchise into the ground and then introducing the pessimistic nihilist Braga as executive producer into the newest “Non-Trek” Star Trek didn’t help one bit, neither of them ever got Roddenberry’s vision of hopeful optimism in the future.

I am tired of these no talent desk jockeys who want to make a name for themselves and in the process destroy an already well established deep rich mythology of Star Trek.

And while I love J.J. Abrams as a director he has sucume to the decoys of flash pomp and Cameron Circumstance.

His version of Star Trek was like an order of bad Chinese food, a 1/2 hour later, the garlic is repeating on you even though you couldn’t swear to what it was that you ate and indigestion aside were hungry all over again.

There was no substance (side stepping any faithfulness to the mythology – through the “alternate time line” claim), leaving the audience dazzled dazed and confused by special effects…yes, there were some great performance.

Simon Pegg was great, Urban amazingly hit the mark and made McCoy his own, Seldana was sweet cheese cake, Ben Cross was an amazing Sarek and what little of Ryder as Amanda was good…but she’s dead, so no more Ryder, but watching Quinto’s Moe wig flap in the wind as he ran around was pitifully hilarious, and I kept waiting for Sulu and Checkov to start chanting Belly bombers.

Enterprise…well there were a few redeeming shows, the Vulcan plot lines kicked ass…especially finding the Kir’Shara and finding Sarak’s Ka (although it being transfered to Archer was a little hoe-key)…had they stuck with the established mythology, we could have learned more about the Romulans – maybe giving them their own “religious” prophet of “war.”

Well can’t dwell on the could haves.