Star Trek: Enterprise Premieres Tonight

Ankou writes: "'Enterprise' premieres tonight on UPN. Scott Backula, you may remember him in as the lead role of 'Quantum Leap', plays Jon Archer the captain of the NX-01 which is the Enterprise predating the NCC-1701 and Captain Kirk by almost 150 years. It even takes place before the whole United Federation of Planets came about! This series will prove to be a more rougher, blue-collared version of star travel than the picture portrayed by Kirk and Picard, i.e. crew wear baseball caps and their captain is a regular 'Joe' kind of guy (possibly why they chose Scott Backula as the lead role). Only time will tell if this series will last, be the judge for yourself and see it tonight, Sep 26, on UPN at 8/7 central." I discovered last weekend that I stopped getting UPN. Who knows when, since I've never needed it before. So I will be missing it, and crying in chair, while mumbling curses directed at my cable provider.

Comments

Re:Good series!

[Pedersen]

B5 really was good, though. It had the cohesive vision that all of the "new" Trek franchises lacked.

I think what you were trying to say is that B5 had a story to tell, while the latest Trek series have degenerated into a forehead of the week makes problem of the week which has to be solved by technology of the week.

Don't get me wrong, I love Trek, especially TOS. I just wish they'd get real stories going. Admit it, this is a space soap, and a soap needs an ongoing story. Without that, it'll be another dead week of time travel which didn't really happen. Well, I'll hope for better than that, anway.