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Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released
exley writes "Trek Today is reporting that UPN has released a synopsis for the final two episodes of Enterprise, apparently confirming some of the rumors that have been circulating in recent weeks." From the article: "Enterprise will be the first Trek series since the original Star Trek not to end with a special two-hour finale. However, UPN has decided to air both 'Terra Prime' and 'These Are The Voyages...' on the same day, Friday the 13th of May, in an effort to still make a special event out of the show's end."
Atleast Enterprise will get a ending. It took Farscape forever to get a proper ending and theres countless other shows that got canceled without a chance to conclude anything.
I had respect for enterprise at one point. But then they started bringing in time travel nonsense and I just lost it all. And now what's their finale? OH GREAT, GIMMICKY TIME TRAVEL... on a holodeck?? Never mind, now I just want this show to die quietly and go away.
It seems to me that Enterprise would make a great transition onto the silver screen whereas DS9 and Voyager have failed to do so. I think that by not wrapping up the series nicely, they leave a large window of opportunity for this type of move. The last two series ended nicely. Too nicely, in fact, to continue on (IMHO). I'm rather glad to see that they aren't going to write a "happily ever after" ending for the series.
Lett's hope that at the end, Riker says; Damn, that holodeck story creator should learn how to write
To which Troy says:
Yes, and take a history class or two. Because this is as far off, as I ever saw.
Yes, I am a trekkie, but enterprise? Not all trek is good trek.
Best episode? The one where captain Sisko makes his log entry and ends up deleting it. The moral ambiguity is lovely.
Braga is saying it's series finale. Furthermore, he states that "nobody is surprised by this." Of course, this explains why he and Brannon bailed this season, and turned the reins over to Manny Coto, who has actually written stories that fit in the canon of the Star Trek universe, without having to rely on time travel for bloody well everything.
I hope the Trek fans manage to salvage Enterprise - they should give Coto at least another season, and some decent advertising dollars, to demonstrate whether or not he and the rest of the remaining Enterprise team can put on a better show than B&B.
It has been a long time since we've seen a Star Trek TV series
launch. Maybe we've forgotten how awkward it can be that first year or so.
ST:TNG was painful to watch those first few seasons. Riker had starch in his jock, Troi was whiny had spoke too much for how little she had to say, and it was always "Federation Knows Best."
It wasn't until the series found its footing later that it became interesting. Warp drive wrecks space (we don't know everything after all), Borgs eat our lunch (we aren't so tough after all), and more.
Sadly, Enterprise was never given a chance to find its path. I'm a fan, though I was also critical of weak, pointless plot lines. But I liked the cast and thought the genesis of the universe we've come to know so well had potential.
I will miss it.
-- Scott
There hasn't been a good Star Trek movie or TV show in years. Quit beating a dead horse. It's over, move on. Hollywood has run this one into the ground. It reminds me of the Holloween movie franchise.
Make Trek History.
(It's part of this series of Photoshop Phridays, and is a parody of a rather badly designed advertisement against poverty. Open question: Can there be a well designed advertisement against poverty?)
Side note, huge Trek fan, finally got into Enterprise this season.
... I would have watched it all the time. Being so busy, the problem I have with new television shows is that by the time I figure out the regular schedule (and by chance actually have free time during airing), they are playing repeats again.
I'd much rather download the shows, and I can download 5 of the Enterprise episodes at a time and watch them all one Saturday afternoon. I know I am not getting counted as a viewer. So that sucks. I'd pay for it if it was in a DVD set, or subscribe to it online....
Here's a hint, when the actors on the show says it sucks, it's a good time to pack it in.
We still get watch such wounderfull shows like Fear Factor....
M$ it's whats for diner!!!!!
One thing I can't abide about Trekkies is their compulsive need to tie up all loose ends and resolve all inconsistencies, no matter how trivial or uninteresting. The purpose of background is to help tell a story, not the other way around.
Odyssey5 awesome?? I'd like some of that crack you're smoking...
Its pretext was nice, but it should have been a mini series - after about the 3rd episode it had run out of ideas.
Episode title: "In the Pale Moonlight".
That was a great episode, but what really makes it great is that when Sisko and Bashir got caught in the Bell riots, Bashir asks if humanity has really progressed since 2027, and what would they do if the survival of the Federation was at stake, and Sisko answers with some platitudes.
Now here it is, 3 years later, and we have Sisko ordering murders, cover ups, etc... all in the name of saving the Federation.
The juxtaposition of these two episodes is the some of the best TV I've ever seen.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The images flicker and disappear as the program ends. Riker and Troy exit the holodeck into the bustle of the Titan. Fade to black as the Titan continues its mission. Roll credits.
Cheesy, huh? That's what's gonna happen.Betcha.
Where are my Babylon 5 reruns?
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
The problem being, no matter how good the series is and could be under Manny Coto, it is tainted by what came before.
Let me put it this way - say you're building a house, and you end up with a lousy contractor that slacks off, does all sorts of code violations, and lets the foundation get water and termite damage. You fire the guy, of course, and bring in the best contractor in the world, with one condition - everything that was done before has to stay in place, because you don't want to start all over again with another new house. The guy builds the friggin Taj Mahal for you, but it's built on the crappy foundation the first guy laid.
The same goes with Enterprise. Manny's doing a pretty good job, but he's working with damaged goods. Oh, he can go back and brace up some of the sagging parts and he can build a fantastic new house, but it's still built on a foundation that was damaged by neglect by B&B. The other problem is - it's not really even his show. Oh, he's running it, but he's just the caretaker, it's still B&B's house.
This is why I don't get the fan campaign to save Enterprise. LET IT DIE. Let Paramount feel the sting of two Trek failures in a row under Berman's rule. After a while, even the dumbest of studios has to recognize a time for change, and maybe then we'll have a Trek series we'll enjoy. Then people like Straczynski (or however you spell it) and Coto and such can come in at that point and do fantastic work with that series.
I may be mistaken, but I believe it was announced a while back that B&B were handling the finale. At any rate, they're apparently going to involve the holodeck for the finale....it's like one big last "Fuck You Fans".
Please let Star Trek die. Its time. There will still be
books with the occaisional interesting and original idea.
As someone who grew up with TOS and has seen much of the
subsequent incarnations I just feel it is well past time to
move on. Enjoy the reruns and DVDs and give your support
to new and different science fiction on TV.
Agree that S1 was somewhat acceptable (compared to DS9/voyager) and that most of S2 was worse.
But S3 was a total desaster; the whole story-arc seems 'terrorist' inspired, the airlock-torture is highly questionable and all this fighting against Xindi/Sphere-builders/Time-travellers would have been completely boring if not for the work of their computer graphics people.
I agree that S4 is a lot better; especially because of the stories spanning a few episodes.
In the end I won't miss it that much; just hoping nobody will allow B OR! B to manage a star trek production ever again.
At any rate, they're apparently going to involve the holodeck for the finale....it's like one big last "Fuck You Fans".
I think it's more along the lines of them trying to do a knockoff of Babylon 5's "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" than an attempt to irritate Trek fans.
It could actually be kind of cool. I am not a fan of Enterprise pre-season 3, but this may be a good opportunity for the writers to do some integration of the continuity with that of the other series.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Over here (Southern EU) we have seen the first season only, but I have to say Enterprise was very good.
Every ST series reflects its era: the original series was like the heroic movies shot in the 50s (ala Spartacus); TNG was all very strong in characters, just like in the 80s we had mega-stars like Jackson and Madonna; and Enterprise is calm and very low-profile, just like the 'cool' and 'chillin' personalities of late 90s/early 2000. The difference can be summed up in the Captains' behaviour: Kirk would shoot first, then talk over the victim; Picard would not shoot unless a full philosophical analysis of the situation took place ; and Archer would be engaged in smalltalk until he found the right spot to shoot.
'Where No Man Has Gone Before'
'The Naked Time'
'The Enemy Within'
'Dagger Of The Mind'
'The Corbomite Maneuver'
'The Menagerie', Parts I & II
'Balance Of Terror'
'Shore Leave'
'The Galileo Seven'
'Arena'
'Space Seed'
'The Devil In The Dark'
'Errand Of Mercy'
'The City On The Edge Of Forever'
I beg to differ.
You must think in Russian.