Did 'Enterprise' really happen?

[McCoy]

This has probably been discussed before but here we go anyway.

Throughout the series people are always talking about Chef but we never see him/her. In the last episode, Chef is revealed as Riker. Could that mean that the entire show was just a simulation that Riker (and possibly others) ran from time to time?

 

[Kegek]

No, it's a TV show.

But seriously... maybe. But they treated the simulation as if it was based on historical fact. Which means ENT is at least loosely 'factual' in the Trekverse, like a reconstruction or a historical movie.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

It's as "real" as any of the spin-offs, for better or for worse.

 

[TeutonicNights]

I like the idea, but the Holodeck would NEVER get the thing about the Romulan cloak wrong.

 

[McCoy]

It would explain that some code monkey decided to stick Ferengi and Borg into it.

 

[Pensive]

yes, but TATV was Riker's bungled simulation

 

[Chris3123]

McCoy said:
Throughout the series people are always talking about Chef but we never see him/her. In the last episode, Chef is revealed as Riker. Could that mean that the entire show was just a simulation that Riker (and possibly others) ran from time to time?

No, Chef was not revealed to be Riker. Riker just played the part of Chef in the simulation. And only the events we saw in that one episode were part of that simulation. The rest was 'real'.

 

[Nebusj]

If it didn't, then this forum has been taking up a lot of valuable server space under false pretenses.

 

[Kalen Archer]

It was as real as any of the other Trek shows.

 

[MrPointy]

^
As in, it was all created by Benny Russell.

 

[ChristopherPike]

^ "That future. It exists here, in my mind. I created it... And it's real. IT'S REEEAAAALLLL!

Oh God..."

<Collapses>

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As fiction went, thankfully they didn't go with Jeffrey Archer.

 

[Kegek]

Benny Russell should have stuck to DS9 and not written all those prequels. TNG? TOS? ENT?

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's like Benny got bored of Black People and tried out writing the spacenegros like whitey from the 50s expected a spacenegro to act working for a big white Captain.

 

[Sci]

Chef was not revealed to be Riker. Riker was simply playing Chef in a holoprogram based upon the events of the 22nd Century two hundred years later. In other words, the *entire series* was not a holodeck program, only "These Are The Voyages..."

 

[kipron]

Sci said:
Chef was not revealed to be Riker. Riker was simply playing Chef in a holoprogram based upon the events of the 22nd Century two hundred years later. In other words, the *entire series* was not a holodeck program, only "These Are The Voyages..."

This logic is flawed I think.

Obviously, Riker was not THE Chef. But then Chefs face was never shown until TATV, so it's entirely possible we were never watching THE crew.

Frankly, there's no way to know for sure. I for one love the ambiguity - it's fun to think that people in the future still watch Star Trek.

 

[MrPointy]

Guy Gardener said:
It's like Benny got bored of Black People and tried out writing the spacenegros like whitey from the 50s expected a spacenegro to act working for a big white Captain.

I don't think Benny Russell would write someone as poorly as Mayweather turned out to be. Maybe he was originally an android character suggested by Albert Macklin.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I think it was MAD Magazine, but someone from the real world slipped into the original Lost in Space Continuity and they proved to the Robinson's that they were not really real by the fact that there were no Toilets on the schematics for the Jupiter II.

Does Enterprise have toilets?

 

[The Mule]

they should have stuck with the original ending for TATV of Data staring into a snowglobe with the NX-01 in it.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

It was all Bob Newhart's bad dream.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The Mule said:
they should have stuck with the original ending for TATV of Data staring into a snowglobe with the NX-01 in it.

My eyes are crusted over with sleep right now. For a second, I thought you said that it should have been about Data learning how to Snow Board.