Was I One of the Only Ones Who Was Glad That the Creation of ENT went back to TOS-themes?

[VulcanMindBlown]

The first two seasons did TOS themes a little bit, but Season 4 was amazing. I hope that I wasn't the only one who liked going back to The Original Series.

What themes from TOS or being a prequel to TOS did you like?
I liked the space boomers, the flip phone communicators, the NASA-like uniforms, the transporter is scary, space is scary, the fighting founding members of the UFP, the set up for the Prime Directive (though I wish that this would have been fleshed out,) the disastrous first contact with the Klingons, Dead Stop, Carbon Creek, Regeneration, and obviously Season 4.

 

[Yanks]

Enterprise was very period appropriate. Some complain of "canon violations" but I know of only one. I love the ship's style and the uniforms.

As far as technology goes, Enterprise was is kind of a tough position. Real world tech has advanced so far since TOS that providing a perfect technological prequel to TOS would have not been appropriate and visually wouldn't have seemed real. I thought they did a great job melding real world tech while respecting TOS tech.

No General Order One was good although it could have been expounded on better I think.

Aside from Broken Bow, Archer's experiences with the Klingons I think hold true to Picard's reference of "disastrous fist contact" with them. Archer got thrown in jail you know.

Enterprise contains some of trek's finest episodes. Carbon Creek being by all-time favorite. Dead Stop was a great sci-fi trek episode as well.

 

[VulcanMindBlown]

Enterprise was very period appropriate. Some complain of "canon violations" but I know of only one.

Which one?

 

[Kor]

The Romulan ship with a cloaking device.

Kor

 

[Yanks]

Which one?

The distance from Earth to Quonos as indicated in Broken Bow.

The Klingons aren't that close

 

[MacLeod]

Now to be fair, ST writers aren't the onl ones who have no concept of scale when it comes to distances between stars.

 

[Overgeeked]

It was great that they used more action-adventure and were a lot more loose with regulations (if they even had any). Other than the actual cast and their relationships, ENT did TOS better than TOS did.

 

[dregj]

i didnt really mind the last season
but as ive said else where I've noticed during my rewatches that I've never done the fourth season
tos holds no special place in my heart
so the constant references where just distracting

 

[VulcanMindBlown]

i didnt really mind the last season
but as ive said else where I've noticed during my rewatches that I've never done the fourth season
tos holds no special place in my heart
so the constant references where just distracting

You mean that you've never seen it and you think that the TOS references are distracting?

 

[dregj]

have watched the fourth
just not REwatched it

 

[jaime]

You mean that you've never seen it and you think that the TOS references are distracting?

I would agree, though I have seen Tos, my fragmented watching of Enterprise, and season 4 and the whole mirror universe thing...all of those episodes seemed like fanwank, and really put me off (not that that was hard for enterprise. A show that on paper I should have watched religiously on its first airing, that to this day I have not sat and watched an episode through without wandering off part way through.)

 

[dregj]

and some of those three parters felt stretched out beyond all reason

 

[Go-Captain]

I love the 4th season, it felt like the show was finally on track for exploring the pre-TOS period. "Terra Prime" is especially interesting because it finally explores Earth's culture, and shows a not so nice side to things.

Until that season the TOS like aspects, like flip communicators, are nothing more than window dressing. Remember, this is the same show which has phase pistols and photonic torpedoes so they can stick with the idea that they didn't have phasers back then, instead of just going with lasers and nuclear missiles like they should have done. The transporter quickly becomes safe.

 

[Crow T. Robot]

Honestly, and I know this might be a little off topic, but I think the worst thing about Enterprise was the casting of Scott Bakula. He's just not a leader type of guy. Someone more like Michael Ironside would have been so much better in my opinion.

That said, I did enjoy the fourth season tremendously. This is coming from someone who had to stop watching after forcing himself through the first season (which I wrote off to the whole TNG "had to find their feet" thing) and several episodes into the second (hoping that it was the TNG thing). I did feel that they made way too many callbacks (callforwards?) to TOS, as it occurred in almost every single storyline, but it was still fun for the most part. I mean, you don't get more TOSy than those Mirror Universe episodes.

 

[HGN2001]

I always liked the nod to other series in ANY of the Trek shows. Just a mention of an alien race or a planet name just gave the show some common threads to tie it all together.

 

[dregj]

Honestly, and I know this might be a little off topic, but I think the worst thing about Enterprise was the casting of Scott Bakula. He's just not a leader type of guy. Someone more like Michael Ironside would have been so much better in my opinion.

That said, I did enjoy the fourth season tremendously. This is coming from someone who had to stop watching after forcing himself through the first season (which I wrote off to the whole TNG "had to find their feet" thing) and several episodes into the second (hoping that it was the TNG thing). I did feel that they made way too many callbacks (callforwards?) to TOS, as it occurred in almost every single storyline, but it was still fun for the most part. I mean, you don't get more TOSy than those Mirror Universe episodes.

michael ironside ?
god i hope they get him to voice darkseid
in the justice league movie

 

[David Strickhouser]

The first two seasons did TOS themes a little bit, but Season 4 was amazing. I hope that I wasn't the only one who liked going back to The Original Series.

What themes from TOS or being a prequel to TOS did you like?

ENT seemed to finally gel; season four is the only one I own. The first two episodes to wrap up season three (which I disliked in its entirety) and that annoying alternate Nazi-era (done to death) I dismiss.
I liked the Vulcan arc, the Romulan arc, the Augment arc (to a lesser degree; though the use of it to explain smooth-headed Klingons was clever).
The one episode story involving the creator of the Transporter was nice with the use of Bill Cobbs, a fine actor.
Not a big fan of the back to Earth movement storyline; enjoyed the Mirror episodes and seeing the TOS bridge (even though it was the Defiant).
Have mixed feelings over "These Are the Voyages" the finale; angered by the wasted death of Trip; no need for TNG to "envelope" the episode, but liked seeing the formation of the Federation.
Of course, the final "flyby"/ narration moments gave a lump to the throat; it really felt "over", for the television franchise as a whole.
Overall, liked the direction of the season. Wish they had gone there in the beginning.