The Last Week (of Enterprise)

Morphy · Forum Ogre Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 3858

With the long winter rerun break coupled with that cancellation news at the same time, my interested for Enterprise has dipped to almost zero. I couldn't even get myself to watch the recent new episodes.

The series theme had a lot of potential. I just can't help but wonder what went wrong. The characters were very likeable and the special effects good. I can only think that the plots and story telling had no good direction that moved with the entire series theme.

Oh well... it's almost over. BSG season 2 starts in July.

PrankishSmart · **Sat May 07, 2005 11:44 am**

I would have to agree it was the show had no sense of direction is what ruined enterprise.

Founder · **Sat May 07, 2005 3:20 pm**

I've said this several times. Continuity is what ruined it. Graphics, Actors, Potential for stories all good. The continuity is what ruined it. They could never keep up with it.

Kuro-chan · **Sun May 08, 2005 12:56 pm**

True in a lot of ways, Founder.

The actors and guest actors' were hardly ever utilized. Often guest stars would get enough time to say their lines, and then have to leave, like just making an appearance is going to make them popular in the trek universe.

Continuity was severly damaged during the first 3 seasons of Trek. Season 4 operated somewhat differently. It was a mix of continuity repairing and issues they tried to avoid (Like Romulans cloaking, Enterprise being able to fire phase cannons at warp, even though Reed stated in "Fallen Hero" that they can't fire them at warp, the fx guys couldn't resist, the Ferengi and the Borg. There are far too many examples.) The biggest correction I appreciated in season 4 was in the Vulcan arc involving mind-melding and the teachings of Surak. Way to go Coto for picking up on that really bad screwup.

The CGIs for the most part were pretty good. A lot of what was shown in ENT they had to build from scratch. I appreciated the couple of kitbash ships used in ENT as it was a tribute to the other Trek spinoffs. (I am referring to the Intrepid and unknown class.) There was a BIG screwup in "Unexpected" which showed a Klingon battlecruiser, the same model style used in TMP, TNG, DS9, etc. Aside from that, I found the effects to be good, but effects shouldn't substitute a storyline.

The sexual ideas and referrences were very childish and innapropriate for this kind of series. That was a big issue in my books, and why many episodes scored low.