Truth be told, the whole "Only Archer can save the universe" baloney more or less insults a viewers intellect.
Enterprise Episodes: Give Us Your Bottom Five
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Is that you Brannon?Or you should just watch it to see how frakking hot she wasOh, you should watch it just to marvel at how bad the "actress" was!I've never actually seen "Precious Cargo." I'm kind of afraid to.
Or you should just watch it to see how frakking hot she wasOh, you should watch it just to marvel at how bad the "actress" was!I've never actually seen "Precious Cargo." I'm kind of afraid to.
she's hot, that's right and imo that's why she has had the role and not for her actress talent.
You got me! I was wondering when someone will finally figure it out...Is that you Brannon?Or you should just watch it to see how frakking hot she was
Look, now that you all know, I hope the mods will give me a chance to straighten shit out before they ban me.
I'm so sorry for TATV... It was all Rick's fault, I swear! Honest!!! God, I'm so sorry... I'm so sooooooorrrrrry!!!!
By this episode I felt the message was being delivered with a sledge hammer. And as I said, there are ways to explore 'what if' without a reset button at the end of a ridiculous story.
"Twilight" isn't bad. It's not one of my Top 10. It's just sufficiently badass and awesome and a highlight of S3, even if it's not totally original by a longshot.
What the hey, since I'm close to the end of re-watching, ENT, let me add my two cents:
5. Stigma (I do not want to be preached at while watching TV - period)
4. Rogue Planet (yes, that boring)
3. ANIS (yes, Bakula should be ashamed)
2. Extinction (neck muscles hurt from shaking my head back and forth)
1. TATV (of course)
5. Stigma (I do not want to be preached at while watching TV - period)
4. Rogue Planet (yes, that boring)
3. ANIS (yes, Bakula should be ashamed)
2. Extinction (neck muscles hurt from shaking my head back and forth)
1. TATV (of course)
I can't believe I haven't added my list to this thread. My cringe factor usually goes off the scale during this lot.
5. Acquistion
At the top of my final five means I don't totally hate this. I saw nothing wrong with Ferengi showing up, and the origin of Vulcan Love Slave had to occur somewhere. My problem is something ENT suffered a lot with... making the crew look like complete idiots, even when they were just bluffing it.
4. The Crossing
I had high hopes for non-corporeal entities appearing on ENT and Observer Effect got right, what this dealt with in an immature way.
3. These are the Voyages...
I've wasted altogether too much time on this piece of character assassination frankly. The best thing that could happen is to canonize The Good That Men Do or make a TV Movie (#99 & #100) that rewrites what must have passed for a history lesson to Riker and Troi. If it is indeed, as the saying goes, written by the victors... then they obviously hate Enterprise. The insult added to injury continuing with Star Trek's "Prized Beagle" jab. Damn this cancellation stigma! Will the shame never end?
2. Rajiin
Ah yes, space vamp who swings both ways. That Xindi Reptillian attack couldn't arrive quick enough.
1. Precious Cargo
My all-time bottom episode, Archer's play-acting to make T'Pol look threatening is beyond painful to watch. Between that and Trip & Princess Fishsticks' escape, this is awful and has nothing to recommend it beyond the teaser, with Trip playing the harmonica and seeing a ship come alongside the window.
There are plenty moments in other episodes, particularly Season 1 & 2, but usually the good outweighs the bad and doesn't result in me storming out of the room, because the crew's reputation has taken a terminal beating.
I've made my peace with A Night in Sickbay and Archer has some genuinely decent moments with Phlox (both funny and touching), which distract from the stubborn prick he's behaving the rest of the time.
5. Acquistion
At the top of my final five means I don't totally hate this. I saw nothing wrong with Ferengi showing up, and the origin of Vulcan Love Slave had to occur somewhere. My problem is something ENT suffered a lot with... making the crew look like complete idiots, even when they were just bluffing it.
4. The Crossing
I had high hopes for non-corporeal entities appearing on ENT and Observer Effect got right, what this dealt with in an immature way.
3. These are the Voyages...
I've wasted altogether too much time on this piece of character assassination frankly. The best thing that could happen is to canonize The Good That Men Do or make a TV Movie (#99 & #100) that rewrites what must have passed for a history lesson to Riker and Troi. If it is indeed, as the saying goes, written by the victors... then they obviously hate Enterprise. The insult added to injury continuing with Star Trek's "Prized Beagle" jab. Damn this cancellation stigma! Will the shame never end?
2. Rajiin
Ah yes, space vamp who swings both ways. That Xindi Reptillian attack couldn't arrive quick enough.
1. Precious Cargo
My all-time bottom episode, Archer's play-acting to make T'Pol look threatening is beyond painful to watch. Between that and Trip & Princess Fishsticks' escape, this is awful and has nothing to recommend it beyond the teaser, with Trip playing the harmonica and seeing a ship come alongside the window.
There are plenty moments in other episodes, particularly Season 1 & 2, but usually the good outweighs the bad and doesn't result in me storming out of the room, because the crew's reputation has taken a terminal beating.
I've made my peace with A Night in Sickbay and Archer has some genuinely decent moments with Phlox (both funny and touching), which distract from the stubborn prick he's behaving the rest of the time.
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The problem I had during the entire episode is trying to reason why the reptillians did not just take a human for study instead of hiring Rajiin to get the information.
I've been reviewing this thread for the last few minutes... TATV still undisputed champion (big surprise), with ANiS as runner up.
I'm thinking about opening a "greatest shits" poll, featuring ten of the most frequently selected bad episodes from this thread...
(if you would believe, about 30 episodes were mentioned in total. That's nearly a third of the entire show
)
I'm thinking about opening a "greatest shits" poll, featuring ten of the most frequently selected bad episodes from this thread...
(if you would believe, about 30 episodes were mentioned in total. That's nearly a third of the entire show
)
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MeanJoePhaser
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5. Carpenter Street (It's not that this a terrible episode, but does every series require a visit to Earth's past? Pathetic.)
4. Percious Cargo ("Trip marooned with _________" happened at least 3 times during the show, twice in one season. That tells you a lot about the show's creativity.)
3. Canamar (We never go to Canamar, but who cares. The plot is some Con Air thing with Archer unconvincingly acting like he's a criminal. Might have been redeemable if the villain was interesting or would appear again.)
2. Daedalus (For being boooring.)
1. Terra Nova (Way to throw away a potentially interesting concept with some worthless crap...sadly that sums up a good chunk of Enterprise's run)
4. Percious Cargo ("Trip marooned with _________" happened at least 3 times during the show, twice in one season. That tells you a lot about the show's creativity.)
3. Canamar (We never go to Canamar, but who cares. The plot is some Con Air thing with Archer unconvincingly acting like he's a criminal. Might have been redeemable if the villain was interesting or would appear again.)
2. Daedalus (For being boooring.)
1. Terra Nova (Way to throw away a potentially interesting concept with some worthless crap...sadly that sums up a good chunk of Enterprise's run)
5. Vanishing Point. Oh, the almighty reset button. We don't need that.
4. Detained. What a waste of Dean Stockwell. Archer gets captured as many times as Voyager had a shuttle crash.
3. Stigma. If it weren't for the silliness with Feezal, totally unwatchable. Preachy, dry and dull.
2. Carpenter Street. As stated above, by MeanJoePhaser.
1. TERRA NOVA. Why? It's SHALE!
4. Detained. What a waste of Dean Stockwell. Archer gets captured as many times as Voyager had a shuttle crash.
3. Stigma. If it weren't for the silliness with Feezal, totally unwatchable. Preachy, dry and dull.
2. Carpenter Street. As stated above, by MeanJoePhaser.
1. TERRA NOVA. Why? It's SHALE!
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