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So I have FINALLY started watching Enterprise... love it so far!!

rabid bat said:
Yeah, Travis ... oy. His role was a lot like the lesser known players in TOS, like the guy(s?) who Chekov replaced. Faceless, barely known. Which is unfortunate - the opportunity to work with a space boomer should've been one that Archer seized a lot more. But it's a numbers game. The show's only have a limited amount of screen time. Add more to one person or pairing, and another one suffers. By the time we get to S3 and the Trip/T'Pol pairing, it's taking up a lot of screen time.
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But's there's only 2 or 3 episodes where he has to say anything more than 'yes captain'. Out of 98! I think even Barclay has more to say in the few TNG episodes he's in, than Travis in Enterprise's entire run. That's just wrong. (even though I don't like the character/acting very much)

rabid bat said:
And the song, yeah, Bakula (I wish I could recall where I'd read this) said the addition of I think a tambourine or the like was something of a WTF moment, but he'd had that with Quantum Leap. The theme song was changed there, too, after a few years. I suppose there's a thought that it's fresher or something but yeah, the mood was absolutely not like that happy, cheery sound at all.
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Yeah, the Qantum Leap S5 theme was awful. Couldn't believe it when I first heard it. They raped that song. It's like someone intentionally tried to make the worse possible version of that song. Bleh.:barf:

I actually liked the Enterprise theme song a lot..... in IAMD. That's right. The mirror episodes theme would have been perfect for Season 3.

Treksurvivor, I liked your mini-reviews a lot. Made me realize I actually like S1/2 better than S4 as well.
 
Trek Survivor said:
Yes, it was fun to see our characters acting differently, and the recreation of the Kirk-era ship, and Soval with a goatee (!!)

It can stand proudly alongside TOS, TNG and DS9 as a truly innovative, interesting series. One day maybe I'll give Voyager a chance as well :-)
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Most Vulcans in goatees are pretty hot. Don't recall Tuvok in one but I know he'd scorch!

Agree it is as strong a series as any of it's siblings!

F. King Daniel said:
Glad you enjoyed ENT, overall! :)

And Trip got better in the post-series novels.
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I've liked a lot of the post series books and the MU episodes are well followed by "The Sorrows of Empire" by David Mack, afir. Excellent and fun to read in chronological with all the other MU books.

And if I haven't said so earlier, welcome to our asylum TrekSurvivor!

Shantea said:
. Especially true about Similitude. Every single actor gave its absolute best. Story was fantastic. Wow. What really amazed me in entire S3 was how dark it was. After watching DS9, I thought Star Trek could not get any darker. Then comes Archer torturing that space pirate. That was really the turning point in entire show I believe. Before that he was just plain, boring and naive captaine with absolutely no clue about what he's doing. Or when he decided to stole missing parts for ENT from another ship. I could go on for hours...
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Hello Shantea!

Similtude is still hard for me to watch, it is very poignant and the entire season was a revelation! In spite of my love for the Star Trek universe I suspect most of humanity's space experiences will have the potential for dark and gritty and angsty.
 
This is a rather crude attempt at a goatee.

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I'm another one who disliked the show when it originally aired, but has since began to re-evaluate it upon a rewatch (or two).

I stopped watching it around a third of the way through season two. I did like some of the episodes (and this time around I'm liking more than I did back then by a truck load) but I just wasn't liking the seeming lack of any attempt to make sure that it would tie in with TOS later on. Of course, I completely missed the S4 episodes where they did just that, although I have seen some of them since.

I have to admit to being a bit of a canon-fan and not liking the fact that the Klingons were pasty-heads (I was really looking forward to how they'd do the TOS-style Klingons with a better budget and better tools at their disposal), so that did close my mind to it somewhat. These days...yeah, it does bother me a little, but it is what it is so there's no point fuming about it anymore!
 
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Watched Fusion and Rogue Planet last night. Had previously liked Fusion more than Rogue Planet but find myself irritated at Archer for letting mind-rapey-Vulcan off so easily. While the idea of Vulcans w/ diff emotional mores is intriguing, what he did was criminal.

Rogue Planet is better than I remember.
 
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