I love this show.

[Trekwatcher]

I finished the fourth season today. Great stuff. Don't know what to make of the last episode though.

Niether does anybody else, so don't feel bad. Just pretend that Terra Prime is the real last episode and that TATV is an add-on of some sort.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I love this show, too. There's only a few episodes I really detest, the first few of the fourth season. I don't even think TatV is that bad an episode, it just sucks as a finale. So if I were you, I'd just see it as a TNG ep, which in the end it really was.

Hey, I even watch ANIS and Precious Cargo, although that ones are a bit.... well, meh.

I watched ENT during its original run and awaited every new episode with bated breath. There are, indeed, rabid ENT fans out there. My passion for it has cooled down a bit (in favour if DS9), but I really never saw the horrible flaws other people seem to be bothered with. ENT is cool.

 

[verticles]

A very under rated tv series, it has some great episodes and gets way too much bad press

 

[commodore64]

There's only a few episodes I really detest, the first few of the fourth season.

I agree. Storm Front I and II as well as Home bit. Bound also stunk. Many of the others were good, but not great. I sure liked Borderlands (the Orion slave trading and Brent Spiner were good reasons to watch), The Forge (and the rest of the Vulcan arc), most of the Andorian arc and IAMD I and II.

I still like season 3 best overall for sheer desperation and the connection between episodes.

I don't even think TatV is that bad an episode.

I don't think so either. I really didn't even mind it as a series finale. I hated Riker and Troi from TNG, but found it rather refreshing and heart-warmingly nostalgiac to see them again.

 

[THE_FETT]

Based on comments I had read about Enterprise I wasn't expecting much, but I have really been pleasantly surprised.

Same here. I never got to watch it when it was on UPN since we don't get that network here in the Outer Rim territories. Same with Voyager, actually. Never got to see either of them until they went into syndication. Anyway, I'd heard a bunch of horror stories about ENT so when it finally came around I decided to watch it and was all like, "What the hell's wrong with those people, this shit is awesome."

Still hate the theme song, though. Despise it.

I finished the fourth season today. Great stuff. Don't know what to make of the last episode though. The thing that makes no sense to me is the part where Trip goes crazy when he and Archer are being threatened. They've had phasers pointed at them plenty of times... What caused such an out of character reaction, and extreme solution?

Because it's not a true story, it's hyped-up holo-program poorly-written by some third-rate holo-author whose story was "based on true events." So, Trip never really died like that in real life, nor did he react like that; the holo-author was just needing some kind of drama and, unable to write well at all (I suspect Wesley Crusher was somehow involved... somehow), he wrote that stupid bit in there knowing that no one in the 24th century would actually know the whole thing was b.s. except for some few small parts which remained faithful to history.

 

[Bak_and_Blue]

Because it's not a true story, it's hyped-up holo-program poorly-written by some third-rate holo-author whose story was "based on true events." So, Trip never really died like that in real life, nor did he react like that; the holo-author was just needing some kind of drama and, unable to write well at all (I suspect Wesley Crusher was somehow involved... somehow), he wrote that stupid bit in there knowing that no one in the 24th century would actually know the whole thing was b.s. except for some few small parts which remained faithful to history.

FETT, you're brilliant. Love it.

 

[ChristopherPike]

You better believe I love it...

 

[PsychoDan]

Based on comments I had read about Enterprise I wasn't expecting much, but I have really been pleasantly surprised.

ENT strikes me as a series in search of an identity. I'm wildly speculating here, but it looks to me like after the end of season 2, for whatever reason -- ratings? criticism from canon-fanatics? bad press? -- TPTB decided "whoa, we're in trouble, better change direction" ... and then the same thing happened again at the end of season 3.

I almost think of it as three different TV shows -- one that tried to explore ideas about humanity's first steps among the "community of planets"; one that was essentially a miniseries built around the "Enterprise captain saves the Earth" formula; and one that was mainly a prologue to certain aspects of TOS.

An advantage of that is that a lot of people, I think, could find something significant to like in the series if they'd give it half a chance (I don't mind the Trek fans who have legitimate dislikes about it, but some people are obviously determined to hate it no matter what). A disadvantage is that few people are going to be thrilled about all four seasons; I haven't met any fan who's wildly exuberant about the entire series. Personally, I think the fourth is interesting and pleasant enough viewing; and the third season leaves me underwhelmed. On the other hand ...

I like the exploration. Granted they haven't done much of that since the whole Xindi storyline began to unfold.

Sounds like you might be in the same camp I am; I like the first two seasons a hell of a lot, particularly the fact that humans aren't the center of the universe, the captain doesn't have centuries of accumulated wisdom to call upon and sometimes makes mistakes, humanity is on the other end of the Prime Directive for a change, etc.