Subj : Re: Was It Rally That Bad? To : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise From : Ron Hubbard Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 01:40:27 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise "Gerald Meazell" wrote in message news:3HJZe.105$sL3.5@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > Ron Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > > Just how old are you? > > Old enough to have watched TOS's first run. As the song says, how bizarre. I try to watch these shows without bias and TOS had a lot more hits than misses. There was a workable combination of humor and seriousness, and a great sense of camaraderie especially between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy but also with the other members of the bridge crew. Now special effects aside, I thought TOS was a damn good series. In my opinion, nothing came close to it's writing. But Voyager had come closest to TOS in terms of concept and spirit: Janeway and crew were on their own for the most part without any aid or contact from Starfleet. Much of the time that was the situation with Kirk & crew. Yet, I had gotten a bad taste in my mouth from the very first episode of Enterprise. It's dark and dingy compared to the NCC-1701; Archer didn't inspire any feeling of ... well, any of the things that made Kirk or even Sisko interesting. The Archer/Trip dynamic is even worse than Janeway and Chakotay and the series wasn't true to it's premise of life before the Federation. There were so many things that could've been written about, yet B&B chose to make Enterprise a TNG-Lite series with "phase" pistols (Worf made it clear that laser guns were in use back than and even as far as Pike's time), Reisa, Ferengi, and the Borg. Well, they did go back in time, so okay with the Borgs but I don't think B&B had that in mind at first. Too much time was being wasted on the hostility between humans and Vulcans, but not until late in the series did it start getting good with Andorians and Tellarites, and any of the races that populated the TOS universe. Instead so much time was wasted with the Xindi and the pointless time travel arc. Despite continued criticism, they continued along a downward spiral until the end, then it was too little great writing too late to save the show. I just don't see anything that makes Enterprise second to any Trek show; to me, it's at the very bottom of the list with ST:TNG a bit higher up than Enterprise. To me, TNG was a bit too much esoteric and not enough action or great aliens. Ron .