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Subj : Re: Was It Rally That Bad?
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From : Gerald Meazell
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 21:59:00

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

Ron Hubbard wrote:
> I say it wasn't true to it's premise because so much of the beginning time
> it was bitching about how the Vulcans were keeping Humans down and so very
> little
> exploration; so little first contacts. Shrek became the
> most popular alien and we eventually did learn
> more about the Andorians-- when it was too late.
> But the Tellarites was handed to us on a plate because
> the Vulcans knew them. The Vulcans knew the
> Tholians. The damn Vulcans knew the Andorians!
> 
> Where were all the first contact stories you would
> expect from a prequel? 

Shrek?  I don't remember the episode with the Ogres. :-)

If the story had been we had ventured into space on our own, I would 
agree, but the story is that the Vulcans made first contact with us so 
it seems natural that we would deal with their friends and acquaintances 
first.  Since the Vulcans had been spacefaring for several centuries, it 
also makes sense that they had met everyone within the range of the NX-01.


Another thing is that we *know* from TOS that there
> had been a lot of cultural contamination back in those early days like with
> the Horizon; yet Archer is sprouting Prime Directive
> stuff eleven before the Federation came into existence.
> 

He never cited the PD by name and I think he only talked about having 
some sort of guiding principle like that once.  Outside of that, he 
violated what would have been the PD several times.

> B&B took all the heart, soul, and fun out of Enterprise
> until the last season when they got good writers-- and
> then it was just too late. Yes, you are so right when
> you say it was a prequel-- but it didn't act or seem
> like a prequel. Shiiit! I wanted to see first contact
> with Tholians, but damn, it was just a flyby scene.
> 
> I might have ignored those complaints if Archer had
> more humor or charisma, but his damn dog had more
> charm than Archer. The Menagerie had shown us Pike, a damn more interesting
> starship captain, his crew
> a group with great morale, wielding there laser
> pistols and that whup-ass laser canon. That was
> a first contact story with the Talosians: was there
> even one first contact story with anybody the
> Vulcans didn't know first hand?

....and there was better acting in that one pilot than in the whole first 
season of TNG.

> 
> Man, it was just one crappy prequel and B&B ignored
> the feedback with his blind insistence that the bad ratings
> weren't the fault of their [bad] writing. I don't know why
> you weren't disappointed, but an awful lot of people were
> and still are  disappointed.

I didn't say I wasn't disappointed.  I didn't like either the Suliban or 
the TCW arcs.  I wanted backstories on everything in TOS.  I got a few 
but they left me hungry for more.  Just about every S4 ep was a 
backstory.  However, I never let my disappointment turn to disgust as 
many here have done.

--
Gerald

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