“Steven Taylor Will Have Liked It"*
Red Sox are away tonight, so we didn’t have to wait until Saturday night to see the Enterprise finale episodes.
Wow. It was not the horrible ending we feared, knowing it would involved some of the Next Generation crew and their holodeck. There was rumbling about the possibility of Enterprise having been rendered fiction within the Trek universe. Instead, it was respected as “historical documents.”
The ending credit bit was totally cool.
I might have done something different, but then, I would have finished the series run and tried to keep it at least as good as it was this season. They did a good job of catching up to the future and ending the series where it was ultimately heading.
They could have done worse than to have had more Mars and other near-Earth action during the series. Look at the politics and social dynamics they’d have had to work with, apart from the science and exploration angles.
If only it had been in better hands.
Anyway, they left it neatly tied up, in a way, yet open for future possibilities. I’m being intentionally vague so as not to give anything away to those who haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. If it has yet to air in your area, or it airs a second time as is normally the case in the Boston market, it’s worth catching.
* This was Deb’s remark after it ended. I thought it made a catchy, provocative title. It remains to be seen whether it will be predictive.
Argh!! We don’t get that till a week from tomorrow (no UPN station, so we see it syndicated) I guess it won’t matter if I miss tomorrow’s now
Posted by Ith on 05/14 at 12:43 AMI am pleased that my commentary on Trek has been so noticed!
I agree: it could have been worse, but I just saw it as yet another missed opportunity by Berman. We could have seen the actual signing of the Federation Charter, the decommissioning of the Enterprise (and, for that matter, what the next generation of ships looked like--the briefly mentioned Warp 7 ships--whih would have been the stopgap between the NX-01 and the NCC-1701) yet instead we go looking for Shran’s kid--a strange trade-off.
Posted by Steven on 05/16 at 01:11 PM
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