Space Nazis!
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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Oh yes, I am very much serious this time. And I agree that Space Nazis are rather mismatched with Zero Hour. But in a way that's what worked in their favour. The Xindi arc has come to an exciting conclusion, and then after a brief epilogue, we're in a WWII medical tent, with an alien dressed as a freakin Nazi. It's so unexpected and out of left field, and the endless story possibilities that imagery generates makes this an excellent cliffhanger worthy of being named the best.
Yes, the revelation of Locutus and Riker's order of "fire" is an intense moment, and Sela's identity is certainly a mystery to leave us speculating over the summer, but you just can't beat Space Nazi.
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Fans get pissed off about the color of nacelles.
Fans get pissed off about the color of nacelles.
Not this fan.
I very much agree. The only thing that would've made it better was for Enterprise to have been canceled after season three... leaving one hell of a cliffhanger for folks to wrap themselves up in knots over for decades!
I'm still trying to figure out whether you're serious or not.
I very much agree. The only thing that would've made it better was for Enterprise to have been canceled after season three... leaving one hell of a cliffhanger for folks to wrap themselves up in knots over for decades!
I doubt the majority of the fanbase at the time would have cared that much. I'd guess that their attitude would have been, "Well, that was a crappy ending to a crappy show. Am I supposed to actually care about this Space Nazi nonsense that I just saw?..."
We still got the crappy ending one season later, but at least it was after the best season ENTERPRISE ever had.
Is this the Trek XI forum? No, therefore I'm serious
Huh, it's another one of those weird times in which the two of us agree. This is like what, the third out of 0514.
You knew I was going to work that in somehow
Space Soviets would have made for a better series finale than TATV.
The Alien in the Nazi uniform actually killed Enterprise for me. I just could not watch the series anymore. I could not take it seriously.
At the time all of us posting to the BBS were pretty much in agreement that saying that aliens had involvement with the Nazis in World War II was absurd.
Well I think it was a producer who posted at that time and told us that the Nazi's had a deep belief in the occult and claimed that they were being helped by aliens from another planet.
We all thought he was full of it and was trying to defend bad writing.
Now, as it turns out as I have read deeper into history, I found out he was right. The Nazi's DID claim they were being helped by aliens.
Now that I know this, I can watch the episode and it is more believeable.
At the time all of us posting to the BBS were pretty much in agreement that saying that aliens had involvement with the Nazis in World War II was absurd.
Well I think it was a producer who posted at that time and told us that the Nazi's had a deep belief in the occult and claimed that they were being helped by aliens from another planet.
We all thought he was full of it and was trying to defend bad writing.
Now, as it turns out as I have read deeper into history, I found out he was right. The Nazi's DID claim they were being helped by aliens.
Now that I know this, I can watch the episode and it is more believeable.
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^^As I remeber the Summer of the Space Nazi didn't quite catch on as much as the Summer of the Sloth did the year before.
^This. (although I did end up watching some of the three-parters...the Vulcan arc one was probably ENT at its best.)
However, just because it was proven correct doesn't mean that it was a good idea to use it as a cliffhanger than had nothing to do with the rest of the episode.
Surely you mean space-commies??????
You think all the communist nations in the world in the 20th century would join together by an unknown alien force to take over the world? I think most communist countries hated or distrust one another. How would this work out?
Maybe if the Space Nazi had been played by Denise Crosby then it would have been a double whammy.
After Enterprise had changed format to a season-long arc in season 3, and after the "Zero Hour" cliffhanger and the first part of "Storm Front", I actually thought the entire of season 4 was gonna take place in weirdo WWII.
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Space Nazis were on TOS. I love TOS. So ENT being pre-TOS it needs some space Nazis. I liked when ENT emulated TOS. It made me feel warm all over.
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This.
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