So long Star Trek...

[IamJen]

Fun article from the Trib re: the ending of Enterprise:


It's not easy to be a "Star Trek" fan.

Sure, there's the predictable ribbing about being a geek, a nerd, a dork, a loser who still lives with the folks - maybe even (eek!) in the basement.

Never mind that that stereotype doesn't have much basis in reality. Most "Trek" fans don't live in basements and have kissed girls -- or are girls, thank you very much. We can take the teasing, and even know how to laugh at ourselves (you have to have a sense of humor when you watch a TV show featuring characters with blue antennae).

What will be pretty hard to deal with, though, is a TV schedule without any "Star Trek" on it. Once "Star Trek: Enterprise" leaves the UPN network after a two-hour finale Friday, there will be no new "Trek" on TV for the first time in 18 years.


Full Story (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tribtv,1,3096468.htmlstory?coll=chi-news-hed)

[FreshTart]

:cry: :cry: :cry:

It was the worst ending of a Star Trek that had an ending.

[Kiz]

I haven't been watching it. Enterprise is on at all the wrong times for me, and I just didn't find it enthralling. Anyhows, I still gotta know.... What was the ending? Spoiler it or PM me Krista! I gotta know!

[FreshTart]

Spoiler inc on next post.

[FreshTart]

Riker and Troi are onboard the TNG Enterprise, during the Pegesus incident (that's when Star Fleet secretly created a cloaking device w/o the Romulans knowing and both sides were trying to find the ship). Riker was going into the Holosuite to watch Archer's crew respond to things.

For Archer, it's 10 years since they left Earth. They are heading home to sign the Charter, which is the beginnings of the Federation. T'Pol and Trip have been broken up for 6 years, but started talkign about missing each other.

Sharn appears and asks for the Captain's help; his daughter's been kidnapped. A few of the crew go and rescue her; she's part albino (hinting that her mother is the albino that Sharn bonded with in an earlier episode). There is a firefight and they get out of there.

This is where it gets really stupid. Onboard Enterprise, the kidnappers catch up to them, board the ship, attack Archer and Trip. Trip freaks right out and tells them he'll help them and gets them to bash Archer unconscious. Trip brings them to an electrical area and blows them all up. Next scene he's in sickbay, dying, put into the chamber, but that's it. We don't see him die. Next scene, T'Pol is packing up Trip's things for his parents. :no:

Then it's Riker and Troi talk for a bit about the Pegesus.

Archer gets ready to go make his speech, but they DON'T show the speach :( They just cut to Picard, Archer, and Shatner all saying the "boldly going..." speech.

It was one of the poorest-written episodes of television.

[IamJen]

Is any of Enterprise out on DVD yet? I tried to get into it when I was still living in MI, but it got bumped all the freaking time (more than 1/2) for sports stuff. One week it would be on Wed. night, then like 2:30 in the morning on Sunday, then 7:00 on Saturday.

Somewhere along the way, I gave up. :)

[Joe]

I never got into the series, although I found Jolene Blalock to be very attractive.

[IamJen]

It could never be as good as TNG.
<<<<ducks under flying objects. :D

and..Joe! Where've you been, man? :)

[Kiz]

I never got into it either. The worst of all the series combined with crazy scheduling like IamJen described put me off.

[Brandon]

It could never be as good as TNG.
<<<<ducks under flying objects. :D


<<< Enables computer-generated repulsor beam to block said flying objects from Jen. I agree 1000% about TNG. I just re-watched First Contact a few nights ago :smitten:

[MrFalafel]

I couldn't get Enterprise on broadcast TV so I waited until the new season started and d/l the 1st, 2nd and 3rd seasons off the internet and watched them over the course of a month. When viewed in succession, Enterprise was very good!

[Joe]

and..Joe! Where've you been, man? :)

Worshipping you, Jen ... pure and chaste from afar. :D

[Tom]

I guess I'll need a forcefield for protection, too... I was just making a comment in the "Star Wars" thread that I thought "Enterprise" had gotten too dark and serious in tone from the second season on.

Remember in the second season when Trip tried to give that alien "woman" an education? (This was a species that had 3 sexes, and individuals of the third "sex" were considered to be a lesser species- referred to as "it", not being given a name or an education, etc.) She committed suicide after having a taste of the life she might have had as an individual with rights equal to the other two sexes.

I couldn't watch it when it switched to Friday. I guess I didn't miss much.

[JLRodgers]

The last episode seemed like they had a lot of things they wanted to cover... but didn't have the time, so had to do a "this is 2 seasons in one episode" type of thing.