KrangPrime
Master Member
has the series held up?
At the time, I thought the pilot was amazing. but as the show went on, I found it rather boring for some reason.
Maybe I was on star trek overload after DS9 and Voyager. The former having rejoined it in season 6, the latter having stuck with it from episode one till the end.
I also gave alot of flack to rick berman and branon braga. Braga stuck to his old foibles and relied on time travel stories. granted, good time travel stories, but an over used plot device is an over used plot device. The Temporal Cold War should never have happened. IT would have been far more interesting to jump ahead a full century and do da show in the 26th century of star fleet and the Enterprise H.
Berman just seemed like a heavy hander. not really concerned with star trek, but cementing his own place in star trek lore. he was also the guy who told the music director 'Don't make the music so interesting, it over shadows everything else'...who thinks that way?
Has Enterprise aged well?
T'Pol has not aged well. There was only one reason Boobs of Vulcan was there...and that was because Boobs of Borg worked 'so well' to 'revitalize' voyager and bring in a whole new male audience. Hence the stupid Decontamination scenes. She did a credible enough job portraying a vulcan, but I can't get past the fake D Cup. Heh, I was watching the extras, and the actress said her acting in her audition experience was terrible, yet she was called back instantly and had no idea why. I about LOL'ed.
Hoshi and Malcom, I think where the most interesting characters. Malcom was given a little more to do, but Hoshi thankfully wasn't forgotten. I think it's an interesting idea that before the universal translator, ships had people who could pick up languages almost instantly to help program the translator. the fact that she was also the only one smart enough to be afraid of space travel made her interesting.
Travis could have been fun, but he kind of disappearedinto the background IIRC. he should have been the alien expert, being born in space and traveling all around far longer than the other crew members.
conner and Flox where fun too...but flox was a little too gross in some areas of the show (cutting toe nails for instance)....and trip was kind of a by the numbers character.
All in all, I think it aged rather well. it was the last thing that felt like star trek. Although I think they made a mistake by making the vulcans adversarial. and realized halfway through when they added a romulan agent into the mix. If you are doing a TOS throwback show, the human/vulcan relationship was part of the core of that. They also messed up by introducing the klingons so early. THe Klingons should have been a series finale ender. save them for last. either as a whole season arc of mystery, or as one episode
planned around them.
And lets not forget the final kick in the ass for this show. that Final episode. Who's ever idea that was...to have troi and riker take center stage, and cut off Archers big moment speech...and to have the series of ENTERPRISE and with a shot of characters from a show that finished it's run 20 years ago... was a shot in the face.
at least they where all smart enough to admit it now that that was a mistake. Braga has too many yes men surrounding him, I think if that was his idea.
At the time, I thought the pilot was amazing. but as the show went on, I found it rather boring for some reason.
Maybe I was on star trek overload after DS9 and Voyager. The former having rejoined it in season 6, the latter having stuck with it from episode one till the end.
I also gave alot of flack to rick berman and branon braga. Braga stuck to his old foibles and relied on time travel stories. granted, good time travel stories, but an over used plot device is an over used plot device. The Temporal Cold War should never have happened. IT would have been far more interesting to jump ahead a full century and do da show in the 26th century of star fleet and the Enterprise H.
Berman just seemed like a heavy hander. not really concerned with star trek, but cementing his own place in star trek lore. he was also the guy who told the music director 'Don't make the music so interesting, it over shadows everything else'...who thinks that way?
Has Enterprise aged well?
T'Pol has not aged well. There was only one reason Boobs of Vulcan was there...and that was because Boobs of Borg worked 'so well' to 'revitalize' voyager and bring in a whole new male audience. Hence the stupid Decontamination scenes. She did a credible enough job portraying a vulcan, but I can't get past the fake D Cup. Heh, I was watching the extras, and the actress said her acting in her audition experience was terrible, yet she was called back instantly and had no idea why. I about LOL'ed.
Hoshi and Malcom, I think where the most interesting characters. Malcom was given a little more to do, but Hoshi thankfully wasn't forgotten. I think it's an interesting idea that before the universal translator, ships had people who could pick up languages almost instantly to help program the translator. the fact that she was also the only one smart enough to be afraid of space travel made her interesting.
Travis could have been fun, but he kind of disappearedinto the background IIRC. he should have been the alien expert, being born in space and traveling all around far longer than the other crew members.
conner and Flox where fun too...but flox was a little too gross in some areas of the show (cutting toe nails for instance)....and trip was kind of a by the numbers character.
All in all, I think it aged rather well. it was the last thing that felt like star trek. Although I think they made a mistake by making the vulcans adversarial. and realized halfway through when they added a romulan agent into the mix. If you are doing a TOS throwback show, the human/vulcan relationship was part of the core of that. They also messed up by introducing the klingons so early. THe Klingons should have been a series finale ender. save them for last. either as a whole season arc of mystery, or as one episode
planned around them.
And lets not forget the final kick in the ass for this show. that Final episode. Who's ever idea that was...to have troi and riker take center stage, and cut off Archers big moment speech...and to have the series of ENTERPRISE and with a shot of characters from a show that finished it's run 20 years ago... was a shot in the face.
at least they where all smart enough to admit it now that that was a mistake. Braga has too many yes men surrounding him, I think if that was his idea.