Personal "Trekkie" Awards for Season One

[Trekfan4387]

On New Year's Eve, I started a chronological re-watch of the franchise. The other night, I finished the first season of Enterprise and I decided to come up with Oscar-style awards for each season as I go along... Here are my "Trekkie Award" nominees for the first season of Enterprise!

Best Visual Effects
"Breaking the Ice"
"Broken Bow" WINNER
"Shockwave, I"

Best Musical Score
"Broken Bow"
"Dear Doctor" WINNER
"Silent Enemy"

Best Film Editing
"Broken Bow" WINNER
"Dear Doctor"
"Shockwave, I"

Best Costume Design
"Broken Bow" WINNER
"Civilization"
"Two Days and Two Nights"

Best Art Direction
"Broken Bow" WINNER
"Sleeping Dogs"
"Unexpected"

Best Cinematography
"The Andorian Incident" WINNER
"Broken Bow"
"Vox Sola"

Best Director
"The Andorian Incident" - Roxann Dawson
"Broken Bow" - James L. Conway WINNER
"Dear Doctor" - James A. Contner
"Shockwave, I" - Allan Kroeker
"Shuttlepod One" - David Livingston

Best Teleplay
"Broken Bow" - Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
"Cold Front" - Stephen Beck & Tim Finch
"Dear Doctor" - Andre Jacquemetton & Maria Jacquemetton WINNER
"Shockwave, I" - Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
"Shuttlepod One" - Rick Berman & Brannon Braga

Best Performance by a Guest Actor
Clancy Brown as Zobral - "Desert Crossing"
Jeffrey Combs as Commander Shran - "The Andorian Incident" WINNER
Fionna Flannigan as V'Lar - "Fallen Hero"
Dean Stockwell as Colonel Grat - "Detained"
Matt Winston as Daniels - "Cold Front"

Best Performance by a Series Lead
Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer - "Broken Bow" WINNER
Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer - "Shockwave, I"
John Billingsley as Phlox - "Dear Doctor"
Jolene Blalock as T'Pol - "Fallen Hero"
Connor Trinneer as Charles Tucker III - "Shuttlepod One"

Best Episode
"The Andorian Incident"
"Broken Bow"
"Dear Doctor" WINNER
"Shockwave, I"
"Shuttlepod One"

Overall Episode Rankings
01 - Dear Doctor (A)
02 - Shuttlepod One (A)
03 - Broken Bow (A)
04 - Shockwave, I (A)
05 - The Andorian Incident (B+)
06 - Fallen Hero (B+)
07 - Cold Front (B+)
08 - Silent Enemy (B)
09 - Detained (B)
10 - Fight or Flight (B)
11 - Breaking the Ice (B)
12 - Strange New World (B)
13 - Vox Sola (B)
14 - Fusion (B-)
15 - Shadows of P'Jem (C+)
16 - Desert Crossing (C+)
17 - Civilization (C)
18 - Sleeping Dogs (C)
19 - Fortunate Son (C)
20 - Rouge Planet (C-)
21 - Oasis (C-)
22 - Unexpected (D+)
23 - Two Days and Two Nights (D+)
24 - Terra Nova (D+)
25 - Acquisition (D-)

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

Nicely done. I may not agree with everything but I appreciate the effort you put into it.

 

[Trekfan4387]

What are your biggest disagreements? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts!

 

[jespah]

Interesting; lots of effort put in here.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

What are your biggest disagreements? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts!

My biggest? "Dear Doctor", I thought that it was an unwitting endorsement of genocide. So it's either malignant or incredibly stupid.

 

[Trekfan4387]

Well you're certainly not alone there! I obviously don't count myself in that group, but it's always fascinating to watch that debate when it happens on these boards...

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

Well you're certainly not alone there! I obviously don't count myself in that group, but it's always fascinating to watch that debate when it happens on these boards...

To each his own. But the only thing "validating" this behavior from Archer is Phlox idiotic notion of evolution. And even if you do admit this inane pseudo theory, there are a few things from Archer that are very grating, like his remark to Trip in Sleeping Dogs, the very next episode: "Remind me, never to help people"

"Yeah, tell that to the ten million that you just condemned to death, jerk!"


Or much later in The Observer Effect when he appeals to the Organians to violate their principles in the name of compassion: "Yeah, tell that to the millions that are still dying because of you, bastard!"

End of rant...

 

[kirkfan]

I have a soft spot for Fallen Hero.

 

[Trekfan4387]

Here's what I came up with after finishing season 2...

Best Visual Effects
"The Crossing"
"Dead Stop" WINNER
"The Expanse"

Best Musical Score
"Canamar"
"Horizon"
"Regeneration" WINNER

Best Film Editing
"The Expanse"
"First Flight"
"Regeneration" WINNER

Best Costume Design
"Carbon Creek" WINNER
"First Flight"
"Judgment"

Best Art Direction
"Carbon Creek"
"First Flight" WINNER
"Judgment"

Best Cinematography
"Carbon Creek" WINNER
"Judgment"
"Regeneration"

Best Director
"Carbon Creek" - James A. Contner
"Cogenitor" - LeVar Burton
"Dead Stop" - Roxann Dawson
"First Flight" - LeVar Burton WINNER
"Regeneration" - David Livingston

Best Teleplay
"Carbon Creek" - Chris Black (teleplay), Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Dan O'Shannon (story)
"Cogenitor" - Rick Berman & Brannon Braga WINNER
"First Flight" - Chris Black & John Shiban
"Future Tense" - Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong
"Regeneration" - Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong

Best Performance by a Guest Actor
J. Paul Boehmer as Mistral - “Carbon Creek”
Keith Carradine as A.G. Robinson - “First Flight” WINNER
Jeffrey Combs as Shran - “Cease Fire”
J.G. Hertzler as Kolos - “Judgment”
Becky Wahlstrom as the Cogenitor - “Cogenitor”

Best Performance by a Series Lead
Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer - "Cogenitor"
Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer - "First Flight"
Jolene Blalock as T'Pol - "Carbon Creek"
Connor Trinneer as Charles Tucker III - "Cogenitor" WINNER
Connor Trinneer as Charles Tucker III - "The Expanse"

Best Episode
"Carbon Creek"
"Cogenitor" WINNER
"Dead Stop"
"First Flight"
"Regeneration"

Episode Rankings for Season Two
01. "Cogenitor" (A)
02. "First Flight" (A)
03. "Dead Stop" (A)
04. "Carbon Creek" (A)
05. "Regeneration" (A-)
06. "Judgment" (B+)
07. "Future Tense" (B+)
08. "The Expanse" (B+)
09. "Minefield" (B+)
10. "Cease Fire" (B)
11. "The Breach" (B)
12. "Stigma" (B)
13. "Shockwave, Part II" (B)
14. "The Seventh" (B-)
15. "The Catwalk" (C+)
16. "The Communicator" (C+)
17. "The Crossing" (C)
18. "Horizon" (C)
19. "Singularity" (C)
20. "Dawn" (C)
21. "Canamar" (C)
22. "Marauders" (C-)
23. "Vanishing Point" (C-)
24. "A Night in Sickbay" (D+)
25. "Bounty" (D-)
26. "Precious Cargo" (F)

 

[kirkfan]

Not bad!

I think of Cogenitor as the best of the season and precious cargo as the worst as well.

 

[jespah]

I definitely give Precious Cargo an F.

I like Canamar but more for its fan fic potential. No love for Dean Stockwell as the guest star in that one, eh?

 

[kirkfan]

I definitely give Precious Cargo an F.

I like Canamar but more for its fan fic potential. No love for Dean Stockwell as the guest star in that one, eh?

Dean Stockwell wasn't in Canamar, he was in Detained.

 

[Trekfan4387]

I definitely give Precious Cargo an F.

I like Canamar but more for its fan fic potential. No love for Dean Stockwell as the guest star in that one, eh?

Dean Stockwell wasn't in Canamar, he was in Detained.

Indeed. And I actually did nominate Dean Stockwell for the Guest Star award for Detained in season 1, as shown in the original post!

 

[kirkfan]

I definitely give Precious Cargo an F.

I like Canamar but more for its fan fic potential. No love for Dean Stockwell as the guest star in that one, eh?

Dean Stockwell wasn't in Canamar, he was in Detained.

Indeed. And I actually did nominate Dean Stockwell for the Guest Star award for Detained in season 1, as shown in the original post!

Yes, you did an excellent job.

 

[jespah]

Oh, oops - in my defense, they're similar episodes.

I suppose I almost retcon them as Detained being related to Canamar, as if they're almost parts of the same story.

I use Canamar a lot in fan fic as a garden-variety awful prison where the few females are always in peril and the commandant barely knows how to process a release as there are so few of them.

 

[kirkfan]

Oh, oops - in my defense, they're similar episodes.

I suppose I almost retcon them as Detained being related to Canamar, as if they're almost parts of the same story.

I use Canamar a lot in fan fic as a garden-variety awful prison where the few females are always in peril and the commandant barely knows how to process a release as there are so few of them.

We all make that kind of mistake.

The ironic part in Canamar is that we never get to see Canamar.

 

[jespah]

It's why I go to it as a fan fiction device. Without seeing it, it can be anything.

 

[kirkfan]

It's why I go to it as a fan fiction device. Without seeing it, it can be anything.

Without seeing it, I am willing to bet that it's an awful place.

 

[jespah]

I write it in the JJVerse as having just two female prisoners - an elderly Suliban and a Vulcan born during the transport of her parents (who are killed) to the prison. Ugly place; the Suliban agrees to sleep with the commandant in order to get powdered milk to feed the baby, who she takes in and raises as her own.

 

[kirkfan]

I write it in the JJVerse as having just two female prisoners - an elderly Suliban and a Vulcan born during the transport of her parents (who are killed) to the prison. Ugly place; the Suliban agrees to sleep with the commandant in order to get powdered milk to feed the baby, who she takes in and raises as her own.

Is that a genetically enhanced Suliban like Sarin?