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Watching all Trek chronologically

Seeing In a Mirror Darkly before FC is an interesting twist. When you see the final scene of FC, you can think, “I’ve seen this before. This is where Cochrane pulls out a shotgun and blasts the Vulcan.” But instead, they simply shake hands.
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I always thought that Damage was one of Ent's best episodes. It put Archer into a situation where there was no "right" solution and you get to see the burden of the entire human race placed upon his shoulders. It may have been anti-Trek but it is one of the times where Archer commanded respect from me as a captain.
 
The Forgotten:
The scene where T'pol comforts Trip was very touching. So were many other scenes in the episode, like Trip's dream and him writing the letter. The speech Archer gave at the beginning wasn't so good, unfortunatly. I like the plot of Archer convincing the Xindi, though I'm surprised they fired on the Reptillian vessel without the crew mutineering. The thing with the plasma fire was rather unnesecary and was probably included to show the damage isn't just cosmetic. Overall this is a pretty good episode.
Score: 7
 
E²:
I like this episode. It's got many touching scenes, of which the best one was the conversation between T'pol and T'pol Prime. I also liked the talk between Trip and Lorian, and Trip and T'pol a lot. The episode also had lots of great shots of Enterprise and Enterprise Prime. I didn't really feel the danger when they entered the nebula, unfortunatly. The episode has a few drawbacks: how did they manage to survive the Expanse for 117 years without even lining their hull with Trelium? How is it possible that T'pol is still alive after living 119 years with Bannar Syndrome (assuming she didn't meet any Vulcans who could cure it, of course, which seems ulikely)? How come that even though Lorian and his crew have been walking around the Expanse for 117 years, no one in the Expanse had ever heard of Earth or humanity? But these questions don't really come to your mind when you're watching E², they come when you're writing a review about it.
Score: 7
 
The Council:
Has anyone ever seen the movie "12 Angry Men"? In the movie, a jury convenes during a court sitting about a murder. The evidence all seems to point toward the victim's son being the murderer, and 11 jurymembers vote "guilty", but one of them thinks there is a chance he is innocent, and thus should not be found guilty, and votes "innocent". Lots of debating ensues, and he manages to convince all the other members of the jury one by one. It's a great movie, and I'm recommending you to watch it. The episodes since "Azati Prime" remind me of it a bit. Back in "Azati Prime", Degra considered that Earth may not be the enemy, and in "Zero Hour", The Primates, Arboreals and Aquatics will all be convinced of it. Not the unanimous result of "12 Angry Men", but a majority nonetheless.
Overall, I really like this episode. The Xindi Council is an interesting and diverse bunch of aliens, and Dolim is a great villain. The scene in the sphere were the MACO got vaporized was rather predictable, unfortunatly (even though Enterprise is usually rather good with redshirt deaths). Something is rapidly approaching two main characters and some guy we've never seen before in a hostile environment. Hmm, I wonder what will happen. The problem with predictible redshirt deaths is that I usually find them funny instead of sad or threatening.
Something I realized while watching the episode: the two Xindi species that look the most like humans join us, while the two ugliest species are our enemies. Maybe they should've switched the alignment of the Insectoids and the Arboreals (not the Reptillians or the Primates, though, as Dolim is way too cool a villain and Degra a multi-faceted character). That's just a minor thingie, thouygh.
Score: 8
 
Countdown:
Countdown constantly had me on the edge of my seat. It's a very exciting, action packed episode, and the space battle was one of the best on Star Trek. It also had many goiod character moments, like Reed and Hayes finally ending their strife (And it was ended because of the MACO's theath in "The Counsil"! I like it when redshirt deaths are considered important, and I take back my comment about it. I should have realized Enterprise is better then that.), Trip and T'pol's squabbling (Sometimes, they really sound like my grandparents), Hoshi trying to kill herself rather then letting the Reptillians get the codes and all the MACOs volunteering for being on the boarding party.
Score: I am thinking about giving this a 9, but it isn't quite that great, so it'll be an 8,5.
 
Zero Hour:
Though not as good as "Countdown", "Zero Hour" is still a pretty good end of the Xindi Arc. Shran showing up to help was very cool, but I do have a big question about the scene: doesn't Earth have any other starships? Where did the three ships who fought Duras off in "The Expanse" go? Did they decide that, since Enterprise wasn't doing any more exploring, they would just send all their Warp 2 and 3 ships to explore? And what about the Vulcans? I know that they don't want to enter the Expanse, but couldn't they have stationed a few ships at Earth? (Though this one probably has more to do with the Vulcans being treacherous assholes (Present company exluded) then oversight by the writers.) When Enterprise attacks Sphere 41 (Who else was surprised it wasn't Sphere 47?), the anomaly seems to have little effect on Enterprise, it just causes the same thing to happen to the crew as when the Sphere Builder guinea pig came into our space.
It's a shame they chose to end the episode with the ship ending up in WWII. It's a rather crappy ending, and I've heard they did it because they still didn't know whether they would get a fourth season when they did "Zero Hour", so they decided to make a really weird cliffhanger end, so that the fans would be outraged if Enterprise was canceled.
Score: 7
P.S.: The mouse-eating scene was really goofy.

Enterprise Season 3 overall review:
I'm not gonna do the awesome graphics GodBen does in his review thread after each season, but I'll give my opinion of the season and the season average score.
I love Enterprise Season 3. It's the season that first got me into Star Trek. The two major arcs on DS9 were awesome, but this one is a whole season long (actually a season and 4 episodes). It's got a lot of good episodes, including Enterprise's best episode ("Proving Ground"), and only a few bad episodes, including Enterprise's worst episode (I simply could nopt bear watching more then 15 minutes of "Extinction", even though I've sat through "Unexpected", "A Night in Sickbay", "Two Days and Two Nights", and other crappy episodes. It gets a little slow between "The Shipment" and "Proving Ground", but that part of the season also includes jewels like "Twilight" and "Similitude".
In the beginning of the season, I didn't like the MACOs coming on the ship, but after their awesome work in "The Xindi", I was convinced they were a good addition to the crew. They also gave Reed some good character development.
Archer goes through a massive character development in this season. Before, he was a very naive kind of guy, but during the mission, he tortured two people, murdered three others (though that was sort of self defence), and pirated Casey's Warp Coils.
I like the ensuing relationship between T'pol and Trip too.
Season Score: 8
(Season 1's score is 6,5, and Season 2's score 5,5)
Average Score (starting with "Proving Ground"): 7,46
Best Episode: Proving Ground
Worst Episode: Extinction
Number of bad episodes (0-3,5): 1
Number of average episodes (4-6): 6
Number of good episodes (6,5-10):17
 
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What about DS9: The Visitor? Its regular place in the episode order, or between Nemesis and Living Witness?
 
Fascinating that I found this thread, as I made the decision just this last week to start watching every Trek episode. However, I'll simply watch them in production order from ENT to TOS then TNG/DS9/VOY. Haven't decided whether or not to include the movies (I re-watched the TNG movies a couple months back).

For me, I found my love of Trek re-kindled in anticipation of the new movie in May. In the last 3-4 months, I've read between 15-20 novels (ATT series thru Destiny), dug out the old DVD's a sporadically watched a few eps here and there. I guess you could say that after Nemesis I sort of went into a Trek "hibernation", concentrating on LOTR and SW for several years.

So a little less than a week into my own Trek watching journey (how I do love summer vacation!), I just finished "Shockwave, Part II" about an hour ago. I figure during the remaining weeks of summer I can breeze through ENT and TOS and be into TNG before the new school year, where I might have to limit myself to just one or two episodes per day.

I'll be intently following this thread.
 
Storm Front:
These episodes were a complete letdown after the great Xindi-arc, and it's a shame they decided to end the Xindi-arc with such a crappy two-parter. There were some good things in it, like the battle between Enterprise and the planes (And Malcolm's fascination with them). The episodes can be summarized as a HUGE plothole, with some guns tucked in it. Especially the ending is a complete deus ex machina: how can killing Vosk undo all that he has done, bring Daniels back to life, undo all damage to the timeline the other factions did, stop the Temporal Cold War from ever having gone hot, and even preventing the Temporal Cold War alltogether?
A minor pet peeve of mine I noticed in the episode is that everyone seemed to be firing the two types of bullets you most frequently see in movies and TV: the instant-death-bullet, which somehow instantly kills the person who it is fired upon, instead of the minutes or even hours it can take to die from being shot, and the it's-only-a-fleshwound-bullet, which causes a little bleeding, and some pain, but nothing too serious when fired in someone, instead of the massive bleeding and splintered bones and tissue normal bullets cause. But this is only a minor thing, as most movies and TV-shows are guilty of it.
When Archer told Daniels that he'd had enough of him and the Temporal Cold War, I wholeharthedly agreed. (BTW, why was it that the images in the background of that scene only focussed on Earth, started in ~3000 BCE, skipped through the centuries really quickly, then got really slow in the 20th century, skipped most of the 21st and 22nd centuries, and then got really slow again?)
Where was the fleet that came to greet Enterprise in "Zero Hour"? And what were those Vulcan ships doing there? These assholes refused to use even one of their powerful Warp 6.5 ships to defend their "allies", but now that Earth is out of danger, they have used the occasion to station some of their ship there? Why did Earth even allow that?
Score: 2
 
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Home:
I found this episode to be rather boring. It's not that I only like action episodes (Some of my favourite DS9 episodes have no action, as a matter of fact), though. The welcome home ceremony at the beginning was a rather touching moment (Though I wondered what Mayweather was doing there and why the MACOs's new leader wasn't there). Something else I like about the episode is that it sets up a lot of Season 4: the romance between Trip adn T'pol, the Vulcan arc, the Columbia and Terra Prime all follow on this episode.
Score: 5,5
 
Borderland:
Brent Spiner is awesome in this episode. He plays a great villain as Ariq Soong, and the fact that the character hardly reminded me of Data, even though they look the same, is a real credit to the guy's acting skills. From what I remember from watching this arc last time, the Orion thing wasn't followed up, and thus the arc could've been two episodes. Not that I'm complaining, though, as the rescue scene was pretty cool, and the scene were the Big Fat Orion sold T'pol was funny. ("three million six – not even my last wife sold for that much!")
A problem I have with all Augments in Trek is that their abilities seem overdone: when Malik punched the Klingon, he flew five metres away, and Julian Bashir and his friends whose enhancements went wrong could predict not only the entire Dominion War, but also the Dominion oppresion of the Alpha Quadrant for nine generations using only their minds (though they turned out to be mistaken, of course). Genetic engineering just seems ridiculously powerful in the Trek universe, and in that light it seems very weird that people who haven't had Eugenics Wars, like the Romulans and the Klingons, don't use it to turn their entire species into supermen.
Score: 7
 
Cold Station 12:
I like the two scenes were we see Soong with the young Augments. It's pretty hard to imagine those sweet kids growing up into such a bunch of bastards, especially with Malik. The scenes with the unaugmented Augment and the gruesome torture scene were pretty good too. Where "Borderland" portrayed Soong more as the villain, this one is showing him to be more likeble, while Malik turns out to be a real asshole. Doctor Lucas looks exactly like I imagined him from all his previous mentions.
I wonder why Enterprise didn't hail Cold Station 12 to warn them of the Augments coming their way?
Score: 7,5
 
The Augments:
At the beginning of the episode, we see the "Previously on Enterprise..." thingie, followed by Archer climbing the ladder to stop the pathogens from killing everyone. The reason I mention the "Previously on Enterprise..." bit is that in it, we see Malik beating Archer up in the last episode, which reminded me of that fight, in which it looked like Archer had broken his arms, his ribs, and possibly his back. However, now he is climbing the ladder without any problems. Nonetheless, it was a pretty cool scene, and a rather creative way to escape from the station.
Another cool and creative escpae in this episode was the escape from the D5 cruiser. The idea of pulling off the nacelle using the grappler hook is simply awesome :rommie:.
We also got to see some nice references to later Trek: Malik(Who turns out to be even more of a bastard then in last episode)'s scene on the bridge looked so much like Khan's death scene that I burst out laughing (Unfortunatly during what was otherwise a pretty sad scene), and dr. Soong started developing cybernetics. He said, though, that it would take a few generations, which brings me to the question of whether he had children. Judging from this arc, he didn't have them, and he'd probably be too old to get them when he gets out of jail, which makes me suspect he cloned himself. It would cerntainly fall within his pattern of behaviour.
Score: 7

P.S.:A bit late perhaps, but I really like the refitted Enterprise. Especially the bridge.
 
The Forge:
I'm glad Soval becomes less of an asshole in this episode. He was very annoying in all his previous appearances, but turns out to be a pretty nice guy in this one. V'las takes over his role of Vulcan Bastard, and does a very good job at it. I think the actor who played him also played admiral Leyton in "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost", which is pretty funny, as they tried pretty much the same thing using forged evidence.
There are some annoying things about this episode, though: the special effects of this episode are awful. The shot of the embassy blowing up practically screamed "It's only a model", and the electric sandstorm looked very fake. The Sehlat not daring to climb higher then a certain altitude was also pretty stupid.
Score: 7
 
I'm 23 now, so by the time you finish this project I'll be long dead from the ravages of old age. ;) But I'll follow along until the dementia kicks in.

It can be done in a year!

Indeed it can. I watched all the trek series & movies in a span of December 2007 - March 2009. I wasn't exactly rushing through it by any means since I just set the deadline of 'Star Trek XI [May 2009]'.

Some of the bits you just feel like racing through. DS9 Season 7 was viewed in a weekend and ENT Season 4 was just a few days as well. And there's nothing nicer than waking up on a Saturday morning and watching TAS, campy music and all.
 
Some of the bits you just feel like racing through. DS9 Season 7 was viewed in a weekend and ENT Season 4 was just a few days as well. And there's nothing nicer than waking up on a Saturday morning and watching TAS, campy music and all.

That one musical cue they used in every episode got on my nerved. I loved the theme song though.
 
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