Enterprise relaunch question

[Thrawn]

Never having finished watching the Deep Space Nine series, I was really excited to find the bullet-pointed timeline in Avatar explaining what I'd missed, so I could jump right in to the book series. (At the time, my TV didn't get Deep Space Nine, so I had no way to watch the series itself, but I loved reading the novels.)

Is there anything like that for Enterprise - a concise, bullet-pointed summary of the important events? I don't want to watch the show because what I have seen I hated, but with the news that Kobayashi Maru leads into Destiny, I'd like to give the book relaunch a shot. I could read all the summaries on Memory Alpha, but that'd take a really long time - any easier alternatives?

 

[indianatrekker26]

"The Good That Men Do" doesn't include anything like what Avatar Book 1 had. But TGTMD throws out pretty much the entire last episode of the series.

 

[Broccoli]

You hated Enterprise (from the little that you saw), but want to read the book continuation novels? That seems silly as the novels build on the stuff that you probably hated. But, hey, you read, what you want to read.

That being said, if you want a primer, check out the basic plot over at Memory Alpha or the one over at Wikipedia.

 

[Thrawn]

I often think the novels are much better at creating stories that really utilize the potential of the characters and the settings of the shows better than the shows were; String Theory, for instance, was better than almost all of Voyager. I bet Enterprise probably has some real standout moments, and is capable of telling great stories, I just don't want to spend the time watching all the bad episodes to get to the few good ones. And I like Mangels & Martin a lot.

And thanks for the info.

Edit: Yeah, the wiki article is perfect. Odd I didn't think of that myself.

I think I'll watch the finale, too, so I know what's being rewritten, at least.

 

[Steve Roby]

You hated Enterprise (from the little that you saw), but want to read the book continuation novels? That seems silly as the novels build on the stuff that you probably hated.

I often think the novels are much better at creating stories that really utilize the potential of the characters and the settings of the shows better than the shows were

Absolutely. The fact that the TV writers were inept at making their premises and characters work doesn't mean that the book writers can't do better. There's nothing wrong with Voyager as a concept; the problem was the execution. Enterprise as a concept has, imho, some problems, but nothing some good writers can't overcome.

 

[JD]

I often think the novels are much better at creating stories that really utilize the potential of the characters and the settings of the shows better than the shows were; String Theory, for instance, was better than almost all of Voyager. I bet Enterprise probably has some real standout moments, and is capable of telling great stories, I just don't want to spend the time watching all the bad episodes to get to the few good ones. And I like Mangels & Martin a lot.

And thanks for the info.

Edit: Yeah, the wiki article is perfect. Odd I didn't think of that myself.

I think I'll watch the finale, too, so I know what's being rewritten, at least.

If you want to watch some stuff to get ready for the books, then IMO it would be a good idea to watch the two parter that came before the finale, because 1) alot of the stuff in TGTMD build off of it alot and 2) it was easily one of the best Ent. TV stories.

 

[Deano2099]

Plus the Voyager relaunch has an entirely different premise to the Voyager show, given the show was about a crew trapped in the Delta quadrant, and now they're back home.

 

[Thrawn]

I often think the novels are much better at creating stories that really utilize the potential of the characters and the settings of the shows better than the shows were; String Theory, for instance, was better than almost all of Voyager. I bet Enterprise probably has some real standout moments, and is capable of telling great stories, I just don't want to spend the time watching all the bad episodes to get to the few good ones. And I like Mangels & Martin a lot.

And thanks for the info.

Edit: Yeah, the wiki article is perfect. Odd I didn't think of that myself.

I think I'll watch the finale, too, so I know what's being rewritten, at least.

If you want to watch some stuff to get ready for the books, then IMO it would be a good idea to watch the two parter that came before the finale, because 1) alot of the stuff in TGTMD build off of it alot and 2) it was easily one of the best Ent. TV stories.

Will do; thanks.