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I am vexed. I am dripping vexiness from my pores as I type. I don't know what to do about Enterprise.
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angriest has been posting up groupings of three great episodes of each season of each Star Trek franchise. It's been a good read. I've been reminded of stories I had quite forgotten about that I enjoyed. He's even made me curious to see at least six episodes from the almost two seasons of Voyager I didn't watch.
I like to make up my own mind on things. And by the end of the first season of Enterprise, I knew I couldn't bear to watch any more. It was too painfully produced. Too many missed opportunites for drama, exploration of ideas... It was a mess. I had given it a year and it was more painful for me to watch than Voyager, which at least had some good episodes built around the Doctor and Seven of Nine.
So when it came to Enterprise, I could say to people that I watched the first season and decided not to watch any more. Then the last season came along. It had a new team, and even people who had detested it were checking out the season and raving about it. These were people who screamed their hatred of the first four seasons from the rooftops. I got curious, but never got around to seeing it.
Grant's post has made me curious. He hasn't seen much of the series either but he's sparked my interest and I'm now fighting my completeist urge. Part of me wants to go back and watch the other three seasons I missed as well. Part of me is even considering the idea of rewatching season one (I know, I'm sick).
For the record, and so you know what sort of a Trek fan I will be buying all three seasons of the original series, seasons 1 - 4 of Next Gen, all of DS9, and the first 8 Star Trek films.
But what shall I do about Enterprise? Why, I'll ask all of you!
[Poll #821356]
You see,
angriest has been posting up groupings of three great episodes of each season of each Star Trek franchise. It's been a good read. I've been reminded of stories I had quite forgotten about that I enjoyed. He's even made me curious to see at least six episodes from the almost two seasons of Voyager I didn't watch.I like to make up my own mind on things. And by the end of the first season of Enterprise, I knew I couldn't bear to watch any more. It was too painfully produced. Too many missed opportunites for drama, exploration of ideas... It was a mess. I had given it a year and it was more painful for me to watch than Voyager, which at least had some good episodes built around the Doctor and Seven of Nine.
So when it came to Enterprise, I could say to people that I watched the first season and decided not to watch any more. Then the last season came along. It had a new team, and even people who had detested it were checking out the season and raving about it. These were people who screamed their hatred of the first four seasons from the rooftops. I got curious, but never got around to seeing it.
Grant's post has made me curious. He hasn't seen much of the series either but he's sparked my interest and I'm now fighting my completeist urge. Part of me wants to go back and watch the other three seasons I missed as well. Part of me is even considering the idea of rewatching season one (I know, I'm sick).
For the record, and so you know what sort of a Trek fan I will be buying all three seasons of the original series, seasons 1 - 4 of Next Gen, all of DS9, and the first 8 Star Trek films.
But what shall I do about Enterprise? Why, I'll ask all of you!
[Poll #821356]
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Season 1 - great sci-fi ideas. It wasn't good trek but I loved it the concepts.
Season 2 - great character stories. Pulaski was great, and her character and relationship with Data was excellent towards the end of the season.
Season 3 - Great ideas and good characters. For me this is the strongest season. Only about four to six average Trek stories, the rest are good or bloody brilliant!
Season 4 - starts strong, has some good stories but more of the stories are... ordinary.
Seasons 5-7 - All the stories you mentioned are great. But I found there are less good stories and many more average ones for my tastes.
There are a number of stories I'd like from those remaining seasons, but I'm not going to buy a full boxed set to watch them. Or if I do, I'll copy the ones I want to keep, then sell the box set on eBay.
On a separate note, I wish to hell they'd done DS9 movies *sigh*
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I do think both First Contact and Insurrection are very enjoyable, but they just feel like big episodes rather than movies.
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The Trek film I honestly think gets a bad rap is Star Trek V - I don't care what anyone else thinks, I find it hilarious in a good way.
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His brother obviously gave him a haircut on the way to meet God.
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which two seasons of voyager haven't you seen? i've stalled during season 7 because I'm getting sick of watching 7 come to terms with her humanity. I mean, couldn't we have developed some other characters for the past two seasons?
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Voyager I saw a couple of episodes of season 2, then didn't watch anything until the end of season 3. So technically I've seen at least a little of every season.
I wanted to see them do stuff with Chakotay, he had so much potential as a character.
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I could write a whole post about the aspects of his character that aren't developed. I read yesterday that Roberth Beltram used to winge about not being given enough to act with. I agree, there are a lot of eps where all he says is "yes captain", "inform the captain", "shields down". As develpment of a first officer's character, pathetic. You'd never see Spok doing so little in an episode.
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