To be honest:
I would argue for a slight rule change for the next season:
Let every episode need
3 votes to get thrown out! But keep the votes between the rounds (don't reset to zero after an episode has been thrown out!)
And no one is allowed to vote for the
same episode twice. (so if you voted for an episode (it goes from 1 -> 2 votes), you cannot give it the third vote a few rounds afterwards. That has to do someone else!
Example:
round 1: +1 for episode y
episode x (0)
episode y (1)
episode z (0)
round 2: +1 for episode z
episode x (0)
episode y (1)
episode z (1)
round 3 - 5
round 6: +1 for episode y
episode x (2)
episode y (3) -> gets thrown out
episode z (1)
round 7:
+1 for episode x this round
episode x (3) -> gets thrown out
episode z (1)
winner:
with only 1 dislike
Because with the current system, some with extreme singular taste can throw out some of the very best episodes by not liking one aspect of it. A TNG-example would be:
Throw out "Best of both worlds", because the Borg look boring now..
So I think there should be at least a little bit of a vote for each disliked episode.
benefit of the new voting system:
-there would be more (enough?) consensus until an episode get's thrown, and the 'winning' episode will be more representative
drawback:
-it would take a lot longer until the first episode is thrown out
Anyway
I would like to delete
Broken Bow. It's not a bad episode. But not really a good one either. The first part is actually a good introduction into the settings/characters. But the "Archer as a kid on the beach"-stuff is really distracting. The conflict with the Vulcans is
way overplayed, most of the characters are rather one dimensional at this point (it doesn't help that everyone who has more than two lines of dialogue is white...). The decon-chamber is a
great addition to a new series, but a
horrible tool to 'sexy up' the series. The Suliban having so advanced cloaking devices was a bit contradicting with previous Trek-lore (it would have been smarter if they only had transparent hulls, like the Helicarrier in
The Avengers or James Bonds' car in
Die another Day. That would fit in canon
AND be visually more interesting). Rigel I was a nice setting, a diverse outpost and market place,
too bad we never got to see anything like that until the last 2 seasons!
But the real problem of the episode is the second part.
Transporting a wounded klingon back to his homeworld is a
great starting point for a story. But it is not a good story on it's own! The point where Archer and his crew retrieve the klingon should have been the point in the story where the plot
thickens. Not the one where it
ends.
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That leaves the final two:
The Andorian Incident
Cold Front
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