Just out of curiosity: What was right with TATV?

[JiNX-01]

While I loathe this incident I am curious why some fans like it. It doesn't matter really whether you are a TNG fan, an ENT fan or both, I just wonder what are this episode's redeeming characteristics?

Please stay on topic. The "what was wrong with TATV" thread has been driven off a cliff, and I would prefer not to see that happen here.

I honestly want to know why those of you who like it, like it?

 

[Hartzilla2007]

the montage of the TOS, TNG, and ENT Enterprises at the end.

 

[SFRabid]

The cook. - Taking a character you never saw in the series and making him part of the story in the future.

 

[JiNX-01]

The cook. - Taking a character you never saw in the series and making him part of the story in the future.

I thought is was amazing that Chef looked so much like Riker.

 

[star]

the montage of the TOS, TNG, and ENT Enterprises at the end.

'Bout sums it up for me.

 

[I am Surak]

T'Pol did look lovely.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I guess if you obsessively hate Enterprise, you can rationalize the entire series as Riker's holodeck fantasy, a la Tom Paris' Captain Proton.

 

[RegFan]

How many of you don't actually hate TATV? I thought it was in the worse half of the episodes, but still only just OK. It didn't work as a finale, and "just OK" is not nearly enough for a finale, but I don't hate it. The montage of the Enterprises is the thing I liked the most about the episode.

 

[Admiral Shran]

the montage of the TOS, TNG, and ENT Enterprises at the end.

That's pretty much it.

 

[bluedana]

I really liked the whole "getting ready for the speech" scene. I think Bakula and Blalock really nailed the nervousness, reassurance, and thank you for being there emotion. And the montage at the end was pretty wonderful.

 

[Leathco]

Well, we got more Shran, thats always cool. The ending montage was great. I liked seeing the bridge modifications too.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The concept itself wasn't bad, but the story they applied to it was.

Also, for once the holodeck didn't malfunction

 

[cooleddie74]

the montage of the TOS, TNG, and ENT Enterprises at the end.

This.

And this is about the ONLY thing that was good about the finale.

 

[Galileo7]

I consider "TATV" both an episode of ENT and NG that is a companion to "Pegasus". At least it was a final episode of ENT and not just cancellation without a last episode.

 

[Gaith]

As I said in the other thread:

- I dig the framing device.
- The death of a senior staff member, not otherwise seen in the series
- The death of a crew member period, not seen in the first two seasons
- Phlox's super-wide smile returns!
- Not showing Archer's speech: it's more dramatically effective to imagine what he said. Anyone really want to hear "The Gazelle, Part 2"? The big hall was a great design. Also, the above-mentioned scene pre-speech scene.
- Polly should have adopted a Starfleet uniform when she formally joined the crew, but I gotta admit that her red jumpsuit was pretty rockin'.
- The name tags on the uniforms were pretty cool.
- Unlike many early ENT eps, it ain't boring. Taken on its own merits, without any consideration of the rest of Trek, it's far from the worst of the lot.

 

[Shatnertage]

the montage of the TOS, TNG, and ENT Enterprises at the end.

That's pretty much it.

That's the high point for me, too.

 

[Listener4]

It's not a good episode, but its also not A Night In Sickbay.

 

[Shatnertage]

^^^Which is, in its own strange way, a good episode.

 

[BillJ]

the montage of the TOS, TNG, and ENT Enterprises at the end.

This.

 

[Winterwind]

As most of the others before me already... the montage.