Well - I just watched the last three episodes in a row and enjoyed them, for the most part, immensely. Spoilers and such below if you care.
This will be pretty stream of consciousness since its late and everything's jumbling together. On a personal note my son's name is "Paxton" and he did not like his name being used for the villain. ;^) But that whole story was good - not GREAT, but good. Let's face it - all of the Trek series fizzle out for their finales. They're good, but not earthshaking. I did LOVE the little fly-over of the "Carl Sagan Memorial" site on Mars, just beautiful. I also found the story with the baby appropriately tear-jerking (although I don't see any reason they HAD to get rid of the baby). The very last episode was actually kind of a let down. I thought Trips death was stupid and anti-climatic in the extreme. For all of the times that he's been worse situations and just waited for this he commits suicide? Would it really have been so bad for them to get together for the last episode? No, we have to have the death and the angst? I know they wanted Riker in the show but I thought it would have SO cool to have a known character appear in the role of "Chef" since we never saw the character before. Seeing Guinan would have been immensely enjoyable (especially after the little speech about how people just seemed to open up to chef). I really wasn't all that thrilled about the actual plot. It just seemed false (since, in fact, it was false). The holodeck made for some interesting stories but the old trek fans know that it's fake - and, geekily enough, I constantly felt subtly shafted that the "real" characters never made an appearance. ;^) Also the two stories just didn't seem to make a whole hell of a lot of sense - they seemed thrown together. I just didn't feel that Archer taking a detour before a speech had a whole hell of a lot to do with whether Riker should continue lying to Picard. I did like that Shran was featured - he was always a favorite character. It was nice to see that his daughter as well. But I still would have rather seen Trip and T'Pal's daughter at that age. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157678 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
