b75 Subj : Re: Was It Rally That Bad? To : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise From : Ron Hubbard Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 22:36:46 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise "David Johnston" wrote in message news:433bfe7e.12498225@news.telusplanet.net... > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:59:00 GMT, Gerald Meazell > wrote: > > >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. > > Oh yeah? Name just one of those times. > > > >> 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? > > Sure. The hunters and their prey, the Xindi, the Ferengi, the > Tholians, the Romulans. But the reality is, pretty much everyone you > might meet has already been met by someone else sometime. Yeah, I understand that. But after all it was a prequel and you would expect them to be grabbed by some alien race on an unknown planet, or rescue some alien folks in danger that the damn Vulcan never heard of before. I mean, it's a *big* galaxy and the Vulcans couldn't know every one in it. In a Voyager episode, Janeway was commended on having more first contacts than Kirk. How many did Archer have? Really have that the Vulcans never encountered before? One, two or three? seems more like less than one. If there had been any first contacts, they were so inconsequential as to be forgettable. When I heard there was going to be a prequel I was so excited over the possibilities, but Enterprise seemed to be more hype than action. That just took all the fun out of Enterprise. There weren't no-- excuse me, there weren't any first contacts, Archer was bitching about the Vulcans and the Vulcans had a stick up their collective butts over the humans even being in space, soooo-- where was the fun part of this prequel series? It turned really good toward the end, but that was too little, too late. I think it was nice a black guy invented the transporter instead of the bloody Vulcans, or the Denobulans, or some other alien race. That was a nice touch, but the rest was just... pitiful. Very pitiful. Ron . 0