Dayum, this board has a lot of smilies... anyway...
I'm told this is an open board, in that I am free to voice my opinions on the show and it's values, so here goes...
So, what do I make of Star Trek's latest incarnation?
From other posts I've made, it's possible to infer a dislike of the show, so I thought I'd clarify things.
I don't dislike Enterprise. I've watched a handful of episodes all the way through, some I've watched part of. Some of it I've liked. I actually quite liked 'The Expanse'. The pilot episode too, was quite enjoyable, and there have been flickers of fun across the show. The problem is, that for the most part, Enterprise doesn't have enough going on to make it noteworthy. The characters aren't interesting. There's none of the interplay of the sort we saw between Spock and McCoy, Kirk and Spock, Picard and Data... there's no fierce, uncomprimising character like Odo, or michevious character like Dax. There's also a flatness about the stories too- TOS took risks and made bold statements about the issues of the day, and TNG also had intriiguing social commentary. From a creative viewpoint, DS9 was strong because it dared to give us a darker Trek, one where everything was no so clean cut and we saw the most three-dimensional characters of the franchise. There's none of that in ENT. Half the episodes I've seen seem to revolve around peeling off T'Pol's clothing, and where the writer's reach a block, they throw the Borg at us.
In all, ENT has some interesting moments, some fun and intriguing glimpses of how what we know came to be. Sadly, I fear with this temporal cold war business, the producers are setting up a giant reset button, so that the time line is miracolously (sp?) preserved. Worse yet, the producers will decide they don't care and ruin the time line. :lol:
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Dayum, this board has a lot of smilies... anyway...
I'm told this is an open board, in that I am free to voice my opinions on the show and it's values, so here goes...
So, what do I make of Star Trek's latest incarnation?
From other posts I've made, it's possible to infer a dislike of the show, so I thought I'd clarify things.
I don't dislike Enterprise. I've watched a handful of episodes all the way through, some I've watched part of. Some of it I've liked. I actually quite liked 'The Expanse'. The pilot episode too, was quite enjoyable, and there have been flickers of fun across the show. The problem is, that for the most part, Enterprise doesn't have enough going on to make it noteworthy. The characters aren't interesting. There's none of the interplay of the sort we saw between Spock and McCoy, Kirk and Spock, Picard and Data... there's no fierce, uncomprimising character like Odo, or michevious character like Dax. There's also a flatness about the stories too- TOS took risks and made bold statements about the issues of the day, and TNG also had intriiguing social commentary. From a creative viewpoint, DS9 was strong because it dared to give us a darker Trek, one where everything was no so clean cut and we saw the most three-dimensional characters of the franchise. There's none of that in ENT. Half the episodes I've seen seem to revolve around peeling off T'Pol's clothing, and where the writer's reach a block, they throw the Borg at us.
In all, ENT has some interesting moments, some fun and intriguing glimpses of how what we know came to be. Sadly, I fear with this temporal cold war business, the producers are setting up a giant reset button, so that the time line is miracolously (sp?) preserved. Worse yet, the producers will decide they don't care and ruin the time line. :lol: