The spoilers continue below...
I agree 100%. Trek finales tend to fizzle (the exception being STTNG
which was the best finale in trek history IMHO). This one was no exception.
I thought that the fact that they turned the last Enterprise episode
into a subplot of an existing STTNG episode ("The Pegasus", I believe)
trivialized Enterprise. This is somewhat ironic, as this Episode was
about the birth of the Federation (no big deal, right?).
I thought Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis are getting a little long in
the tooth to play their old characters (especially for a flashback to an
early STTNG season). Watching them hash their lines out... they just
seemed... tired. At least the holodeck approach was a more creative way
of tieing the crossover in. At least the writers didn't take the "oh,
he's the great great grandfather of..." approach.
Trip got taken out like a punk. This was totally lame, not unlike
Generations where Kirk died by falling off a rock. It was also
unbelievable, as the Enterprise usually carries some well-trained
marines with them (that were seen in this episode). His death was
probably meant to garner some emotional leverage in the final moments of
the series. That's just poor writing.
The whole sexual tension between Trip and T'Pol apparently just puttered
out. And you thought House was frustrating?
And finally in the end... The speech... Archer is ready... This is the
one remembered in schools... and... "Computer, end program". Bullocks!
Alltogether, I thought Enterprise had a great cast with poor writing.
Part of this may be due that the whole Star Trek franchise is just
running out of gas.
Anyway, my 0.02 :-)
Jim Davis wrote:
>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
>
>
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