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It's just started, of course, but I have to say that coming off of a Firefly marathon I can't believe how wooden and preposterous Enterprise seems. Somehow the whole "Alien Nazis" thing just seems...well...dumb. They've got an hour though; maybe they'll find a way to make it work.
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My DirecTV time finder thing didn't turn up any time other than today, but I know that last season they showed it twice a week, first on Wed. and then on Sun. night. I expect they'll still do something similar. I hope so, because this Friday night time slot isn't particularly convenient.
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sorry, i'm busy watching the ken jennings show. i mean, jeopardy.
"This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker"
"What is a Hoe?"
I thought it was safe to eat and watch Jeopardy, but that almost lodged chicken and dumplings in my nose.
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I actually new the correct answer, but only because we just watched Mansfield Park a couple weeks ago.
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Really? My brother had a lot of fun with that word when I was in jr. high, since I was much more successful with girls than he was, and since it rhymed with my name.
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Why don't they just quit making Star Trek shows altogether? They're ruining my Trekkie nostalgia here. I want to remember it as something that was fun and great while it lasted, but came to an end like all good things... Not some gigantic cash cow that was still being milked long after it was already dead and dry. They should have quit the shows before Voyager. They should have quit the movies after First Contact.
*disgruntled former TNG trekkie*
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I thought Voyager was the best of the lot. TNG was pretty good, DS9 just got incredibly, horribly dull.
Don't know about enterprise, althought Scott Bakula will always win points from me for anything he does just on Quantum Leap nostalgia alone. Heh.
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Really? Voyager the best of the lot? Christine and I argue about this now and then. She loved Voyager, and while I'll agree that the show got much, much better as time wore on, I don't feel like it ever held a candle to Deep Space Nine, which is far and away my favorite Trek.
None of them hold a candle to Firefly, of course, but really what TV SciFi could?
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They looked at the Star Wars franchise, and learned the lesson that you can make an awful lot of money by whoring out our nostalga. Posts: 9 | Registered: Mar 2004
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Mid-Voyager was the best you'll get from the series. The last season kind of blew, and the first couple were boring as the characters were new and unestablished and whatnot. I think seasons 4, 5, and 6 of Voyager were the best.
That said, TNG was better. And the series finale of DS9 was one of the best Star Trek episodes ever.
Enterprise is getting better. I mean, really. They fixed Hoshi's hair! How can it get bad again? Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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Actually, I'm hopeful. Coto is now a showrunner, and he's vowed to get the show back on track. HE already kind of apologized for the premier, saying that they had to 'write themselves out of' the dumb alien-nazi cliffhanger that the previous crew had left them with, but now they're going to focus on getting it back to be a real Star Trek prequel series.
In the next few episodes, we'll see:
-A Vulcan Civil War, which will get the Vulcans pretty much back to how we knew them in TOS - we'll also get an appearance by T'Pau, the Vulcan who officiated as Spock's 'wedding'.
-Brent Spiner as Doctor Soong, a progenitor of Data's Creator, and a crazy fellow massively involved in the Eugenics Wars (remember those things that caused Khan to happen?)
-Orion Slave Girls
-the beginning of the Forming of the Federation.
-It's also been hinted that if we don't see the Romulan Wars in the show itself, there will be a film (that may or may not have anything to do with the current Enterprise cast) that explores this time period.
Coto is a major Trek fanboy, and has also hired some of the well-known Trek novel writers (like Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens) to write some upcoming episodes.
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EDIT: You know, I really disliked Enterprise until I saw the episode 'Similitude'. If anyone here is a doubter, that is the episode to watch.
Sort-of-spoilers:
Aaaand I just realised something I really should have noticed. I knew that Ray Bradbury's short story featured a character called Sim and in that story the humans live only eight days. The name and the premise is either a common theme or a direct inspiration. Ah, well, it's still a good episode.
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Well that would explain it, then. I was actually just trying to find out who wrote it, but I got distracted by my Sim/Sim realisation. . I guess I'll be trying to watch more Enterprise now (except I can't because I don't have a tv and Lost my housemates can handle but I'm not so sure about Enterprise! Heh.)
Yes, Coto definately has the right idea.
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From the website Television Without Pity, from the EnterpriseShow FAQ:
Question: What do all the crazy abbreviations mean?
Answer: Okay, get ready.
Television series: TOS = the original series, Star Trek (1966-1969) TNG = The Next Generation (1987-1994) DS9 = Deep Space Nine (1993-1999) VOY = Vapid Onerous Years or Voyager (1995-2001)
heehee!
My husband watches Enterprise, but I just can't get into it. I was a TNG fan, and then a DS9 semi-fan, but dude...after that, it just went downhill. It went a little uphill again with Enterprise, but Voyager just drove me crazy. It just seemed very, very dull to me. Add to that Seven of Nine, a.k.a. "Hooter Borg," and I just couldn't watch.
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DS9 is still my favorite Trek show. With all the debates regarding terrorism and military occupation going on, the issues explored by that show are more relevant than ever.
Just watched the first three episodes of Firefly this weekend. Firefly is to Enterprise as warp speed is to impulse propulsion.
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Ya know, the thought had occured to me that I only found the professional escort to be marginally attractive and the rest of the cast does absolutely nothing for me as a reason why I didn't care for the show.
But honestly, I kept coming back to the problem of "Hicks in Space".
The juxtaposition of cowboys in the wild, wild west roping strays in the shadow of a spaceship taking off in the background just didn't work for me.
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Enterprise is still on? I stopped watching sometime in the 2nd season. I think I tried to start again at the beginning of the 3rd season becuz they said they were gonna try a new direction or something. I think I saw something about zindee or something like that, but. . it wasn't enough to keep me for more than 2-3 weeks. Is it still Wednesdays at the same time as Smallville? That could also be why I wasn't watching. I could have recorded it but. . . never really felt the need to bother.
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But I am anxiously awaiting a possible new Star Trek series spearheaded by J. Michael Straczynski! Now *that* I gotta see.
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I saw the premire. I was bit worried about this season when I saw the nazi aliens and such. The time travel thing has been done poorly in enterprise.
Though the descriptions of what you say are things to come sound interesting.
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