Everytime there's a thread with constructive criticism regarding Enterprise on the official site it seems to vanish,
thirteen reasons why Enterprise stunk
1) Archer, Trip and T'pol - a trio forced on viewers every episode while Mayweather, Hoshi and Reed went to waste, was it becuase they are of different colour skin? different nationality? post 9/11 xenophobia? Or more likely a attempt to recreate a Kirk, Spock and McCoy thing.
2) During the shoot of season one episode 'Oasis' Bakula (Archer) approached Rene Auberjonois (Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and said "you read this script? it's great!" Renes reply: "Yeah, we did it in the third season." (He is in fact referring to 'Shadow Play' in the second season)
3) Regeneration - the Borg send a message to the future to come to earth - fine, but that baffles me about this tiresome romp is that they have a massive opportunity to assimilate the planet and pass it up, and theres no way in hell we needed this crap shoehorned in the mythology. fans would have happily accepted the Borg were headed to the Alpha quadrant simply to expand territory.
4) Aqcuisition - four Feringi board Enterprise, knock out all crewmen but Archer, strip the ship to the decks and in the end, Archer's response to this huge threat is "get lost, don't want to know you, don't care where your from."
5) These are the Voyages - Archers speech being withheld is only the first flaw. Everything regarding the TNG era was wrong, Marina and Frakes have both aged, the Enterprise D interiors were all wrong and the whole idea that riker did this during the TNG episode 'The Pegasus' is absurd. he never struck me as the tye to go playing around in holodecks during a crisis of conscience. Overall a terrible episode and a absolute turkey.
6) The Expanse - After it had been all over the news for over a year the Enterprise writers never once thought this episode paralelled the events and aftermath of 9/11. I call bull**** on that.
7) The Xindi - been done before as the Dominion. That whole arc was a massive mess, the expanse issue was never resolved, Manny Coto came in half way throyugh and suddenly things picked up a notch, but by the end, some idiot at Paramount let Berman and braga do the final episodes.
8) The Augments trilogy - admitedly entertaining but it's a rerun of The Wrath of Kahn.
9) The temporal cold war arc - Unplanned and sloppy, Future guy was never given a identity, and Braga later adimited he made it up as it went along.
10) Technology - In TNG episode 'The Masterpiece Society' a colony established in 2168 has no idea what a transporter is. In TNG episode 'A matter of Time' Worf notes there are no phasers in the 22nd century, in VOY 'Flashback' Janeway states in the 23rd century there were no holodecks or replicators. The list of canon violations is endless.
11) Klingon first contact "Our first contact with the Klingons led to decades of hostilities." - Picard(Circa: 2367)), TNG episode 'first Contact', "both our races have been at odds for 70 years." - Kirk(2268) TOS 'Day of the Dove' First contact with the Klingon empire goes off without a hitch - Enterprise Brocken Bow circa 2151
12) The Suliban - like Voyagers nemesis Species 8472 they faded into obscurity, a cool race with their whole potential wasted by a bunch of hack writers.
13) The name Star Trek was rejected at first due to it being old, uncool and probably be the very thing to make viewers switch off, then they tacked it on due to the ratings decline present since it began just to boost them. That backfired and who do they blame? the same guys they blamed for Nemesis being a uter failure - the fans.
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