Okay, I know it’s not a popular topic here, but I watched Enterprise this past week. It’s maybe worth noting that I hadn’t watched it in a while, so I didn’t even realize UPN had moved it back to the 8pm time slot at some point.
The episode was pretty good. People were dead (15 crewmen, I think), the ship was beat to hell and not immediately repaired, the vulcan is coming apart at the seams, the anti-earth weapon is days away from launching, and Captain Archer is starting to sound suspiciously like Captain Kirk. Oh, he’s still not as entertaining-not chasing green women or getting into lame judo fights with aliens-but the tone and purpose are there. I swear they weren’t last time I watched. This show seems like it’s in danger of becoming entertaining. Now, will it have the chance to finish that evolution? Hmm…
Actually, I thought the T’pal part was resolved far too quickly. We discover she’s hooked on the drug, and she’s cured of her addiction in the same episode.
If you saw last week’s episode - that was a big change for the entire series. You’d never see any of the other captains do what Archer did - not even Kirk
After 9/11, the USA is slightly less PC than it was before. If the Star Trek people set it up right, people will be cheering to see a Captain kick some ass instead of being a diplomat.
Actually, I thought the T’pal part was resolved far too quickly. We discover she’s hooked on the drug, and she’s cured of her addiction in the same episode.
If you saw last week’s episode - that was a big change for the entire series. You’d never see any of the other captains do what Archer did - not even Kirk[/quote]
She may be off the drug, but the effects from it are actually worsening, to hear her and the doc tell it. We’re coming up on the season finale here. I think I may watch just to see how they wrap up this whole Xindi thing.
I think odds are they are being renewed but for a shortened season, 13 episodes or so. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try syndication should they be cancelled from UPN.
I do wonder, though, why UPN would bother cancelling them, it’s not like they get any better ratings on any other show they have.
I do wonder, though, why UPN would bother cancelling them, it’s not like they get any better ratings on any other show they have.
I imagine Enterprise is a lot more expensive than most of their other shows.
Count me in as someone who’s also been enjoying Enterprise recently. I hadn’t seen it since the pilot episode but I’ve been watching since the Azanti Prime episode (where the Enterprise gets the shit kicked out of her) and I’ve been pretty impressed. If it keeps up this quality then I hope it gets renewed because I’ll certainly continue to watch it. As it is, I will almost certainly get at least the third season when its released on DVD.
Isn’t this the same formula they used with Voyager? Do a bunch of episodes that explore the characters’ flaws and psychological make-up (i.e. we can do most of it with existing sets!) until the viewer base is nice and small and almost totally disinterested, then turn it into space opera with blazing suns and smoking guns and crow about the ‘rise’ in viewers.
And last night, they can THAT close to punching the reset button. Yes, it was time-travel. Again.
The worst part is just how many of Enterprise’s episodes are just rehashes and remixes of story ideas they’ve done before, especially this last one with someone trying to change their past and the crew’s present.
Honestly, they ran the borg into the ground before, now it looks they’re trying to do the same with time-travel.
And last night, they can THAT close to punching the reset button. Yes, it was time-travel. Again.
I agree that time travel and the reset button often go hand in hand but I never got the impression that they were going for the reset button in last night’s episode. In fact I’d say that recent episodes have made it pretty clear that there won’t be a reset button this time out.
I actually thought last night’s episode was good, as far as time travel eps go.
They didn’t push the reset button. If they had, the E1 crew would have forgotten about E2.
My only problem with it was Captain T’rip’s hesitation to do a suicide run with the ship. Seems like his meeting the E1 and changing thier destiny would have made E2 cease to exist anyway, so what’s the loss?
Of course, if that was true, E2 should have faded out of existance as soon as they stopped E1 from going into the wormhole. But then they wouldn’t have stopped E1. Thus the conundrum. So they had to remain, as a time-travel anomoly.
I like that there actually seems to be a little more continuity now. If Enterprise gets trashed it doesn’t just miraculously get fixed in an episode or two, but just keeps gimping along or getting worse. This week did have a little of that Voyager formula of “our ship just got trashed, but luckily for us we just stumbled upon this vastly superior technology to patch it back up better than new!” when they get the new forumlas for faster warp travel. But then the formulas turn out to be flawed, so it was just a tease after all. Nice.
They’ve been fiddling with it, I think a lot of it has just not been noticed due to audience depletion during the first 1 1/2 seasons. The show does actually sinally seem to be finding some sort of footing, at least tentatively, but it may be coming too late to save it.
