ENT - a general comment
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Great race, the Iconians. Really sneaky bastards, but great.
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I picked it up, somewhere, that ENT wanted to have boy bands play every week on the show and of course this didn't happen, if it were true. But as music for the end credits, every week, I wouldn't take exception to that. It might've just worked. I always thought the end title sequence music sucked, anyway. It was just standard made-for-TV music ... completely forgettable.
Scott was able to make transwarp beaming available on Enterprise as soon as he and Kirk made it over from Delta Vega. He either had it in his head or he took a data card with him when he beamed over.
Even if he hadn't, the information would have probably remained on his terminal at Delta Vega unless Prime Spock nerve-pinched Keenser and wiped it all out. Probably not. He was emotionally compromised, but he didn't seem to find giving that info out to be too much of a problem. If anything Prime Spock seemed like he was willing to make a lot of judgement calls that might have been iffy. No one else was in his position and he may have felt the change in circumstances to this reality needed a helping bit of info here and there.
Back to the subject of Klingon distance. I didn't care too much for Earth being that close to Klingon space but i think you can view this area of the galaxy in Trek as a bit like the Balkans. A lot of powerful groups all wedged close together. It's not an idea situation for peace.
the 4 days to their destination could have been handled with a change in dialog from the home world to "the closest klingon colony." and a change of 4 days to "a few weeks," leaving the exact time a bit open.
if the klingons had colonies near earth in the mid 2100's, but didn't in the mid 2200's, that would be another reason for klingons to hate humans and the federation.
if the klingons had colonies near earth in the mid 2100's, but didn't in the mid 2200's, that would be another reason for klingons to hate humans and the federation.
Said it before and again now: My overarching, biggest heartburn with Enterprise was that the series betrayed its own premise right out of the gate: Season 1, Episode 1, in the opening teaser.
The idea was that we were going to see mankind's early, stumbling steps into interstellar space, a century or so before the events of TOS, before the Federation, the whole shebang.
In the very first episode we got 23rd Century aliens, 24th Century technology, transporters, time travel, angry Vulcans, and apparently a Klingon homeworld closer than Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar. I know- speed of plot and all that. But still.
That said, the show wasn't a total loss. There were some diamonds in the rough. The cast was decent, and I'm still at a loss why Scott Bakula ended up being such a miscast as Archer- he's got the chops but I guess he and the character as written were just a bad fit. I think they could have done a lot better with it, but the same team had been working Trek forever at that point and they were truly in a creative rut. ENT was conceived as a 'different' kind of show but just ended being more of the same stuff we'd been watching for the past several years.
The idea was that we were going to see mankind's early, stumbling steps into interstellar space, a century or so before the events of TOS, before the Federation, the whole shebang.
In the very first episode we got 23rd Century aliens, 24th Century technology, transporters, time travel, angry Vulcans, and apparently a Klingon homeworld closer than Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar. I know- speed of plot and all that. But still.
That said, the show wasn't a total loss. There were some diamonds in the rough. The cast was decent, and I'm still at a loss why Scott Bakula ended up being such a miscast as Archer- he's got the chops but I guess he and the character as written were just a bad fit. I think they could have done a lot better with it, but the same team had been working Trek forever at that point and they were truly in a creative rut. ENT was conceived as a 'different' kind of show but just ended being more of the same stuff we'd been watching for the past several years.
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I didn't like or care about it when it aired. Now that it's been over 15 years, I felt much different about it when I recently watched it (most of it for the first time).
I thought it was pretty damn entertaining.
I think it really suffered because of the timing of when it was released. I was just done with the old Trek format by this time...and ENT's double sin was promise of something different, but failing to deliver.
I thought it was pretty damn entertaining.
I think it really suffered because of the timing of when it was released. I was just done with the old Trek format by this time...and ENT's double sin was promise of something different, but failing to deliver.
I found season one somewhat inconsistent ; which ironically is consistent with all star trek series. I think it gets better as it goes on, I do truncate season 3 when I do a rewatch but overall I really like the series, and I think season four was the best.
I was disappointed we never saw a season five.
I was disappointed we never saw a season five.
What about Season 3 don't you like, Kytee? Myself, I find Enterprise's third year to be very satisfying ...
I like the connected story of the hunt for the Xindi, I just skip the same few episodes on a re-watch. Extinction, Rajin, Exile, Carpenter Street, Chosen Realm , and Hatchery . I can binge the rest no problem.
Outstanding! Though, I happen to like Carpenter Street -- Captain Archer $aves the Human Race, once again. Were Archer an actual Historical figure, he'd be a 5 year old boy, right now ... riding around in his 12-volt Battery-powered Mercedes Benz and playing with his LEGO Space Shuttle Explorer ...
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