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Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?)
mfh writes "Apparently, William Shatner may return to Star Trek, after talks with studio executives for a cameo on the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. Rick Berman did not disclose which role wants Shatner play, although I'm sure we'd all love to see Captain James Tiberius Kirk again, right?"
If anything, he should play Kirk's great (great?) grandfather or however it works out...
If I had points, I would mod you insightful. I personally started to lose interest with Deep Space Nine, and then my interest went six feet under with Voyager. Seeing what I have of Enterprise, they have deviated far from the continuity of the Star Trek franchise that was established in the original series and Next Generation years (Romulan cloaking devices a century before Kirk? First contact with the Klingons before the Federation even existed? Xindi? Come on!)
The only thing that would save this show would be to cancel the show and have a final episode where an Ensign Daniels walked out of a holodeck on Enterprise-D, to be railed on about historical inconsistencies by Data.
I don't recognize any of the movies after First Contact either, so forget about B-4.
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No. In Generations (before he died) he was trapped in the ribbon. In the ribbon time did not exist and if you had the will to, you could exit at any point in time. So could could come out with Whoopi Goldberg, kick some ass then go back in the ribbon to come out in generations.
Personally, I just want a Q plot line.
"First contact with the Klingons before the Federation even existed? Xindi? Come on!"
The Enterprise time line starts after the Enterprise-E visited Earth in First Contact. That little bit of info can be used to correct a lot of 'inconsistencies' in Enterprise, including when exactly they meet a lot of races such as the Klingons. Things are further complicated by the whole temporal cold war thing.
As for cloaking devices etc, well I dunno. Never watched much of ToS. I'm not defending that bit.
"Derp de derp."
I haven't really ever watched a Voyager episode that I enjoyed. I quickly gave up on it. I've yet to watch an Enterprise episode. Just kind of lost interest due to Voyager. It was kind of a touchy-feely politically correct show rather than the frequent examination of philosophical problems that came up in the earlier Treks.
I did generally like TNG and DS9, though. Never watched much of The Original Trek.
I don't really understand why people get so rabid about Star Trek in general, though. It's reasonably fun to watch, yes. It elevates the status of science (well, at least pseudoscience, but one can generally put a plausible interpretation on things) and engineering, which is not very common in the media. There was some good acting -- I really do like Patrick Stewart. The makeup is *very* good. It's interesting to see positive predictions about the future -- a *lot* of movies seem to go in for futuristic dystopias. Finally, for such a long-running set of series, things didn't get too formulaic -- there was definitely good writing.
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I had nothing but high hopes for Enterprise when it came on the air. Maybe I expected too much, but how about storylines leading in the direction of the founding of the Federation? I think they could do some very interested stories about meeting new alien races, overcoming cultural differences, and moving on towards a confederacy of planets.
While I didn't like the ongoing story line this past season, they could turn it around (noticed a little of that the past couple of weeks). If they bring the Xindi in as allies of the humans against the sphere builders, that could start things in the right direction for the Federation (gotta get the Vulcans involved first, though).
I did like some of the stories this season too, especially the one about Trip's clone and the one with Archer's quantum brain injury. Very creative.