[OT] Two Enterprises?!?!

[Mark]

Nope! It's not a rerun of an TNG episode with some wacky rift in space designed to muck with the precious canon!

Two full episodes of Enterprise are airing tonight and from the previews they both look like winners. The announcer (writers, actually) even seems to be getting hip to the idea that everyone notices how often Archer ignores his own common sense! Giddy Up Go, Sam! Giddy Up Go!

 

[Umbran]

Woo Hoo!

 

[uv23]

Two? What channel is it on? I missed it yesterday but its on again this Sunday on Space Channel. I wonder if they'llalso have two episodes.

 

[Crothian]

UPN is running back to back episodes tonight. Both look really good. Then we have a new one next week and the cliff hanger series ender in two weeks. Overall, I'm fairly happy with the way the seiries is going.

 

[RangerWickett]

I'm not so impressed. On a scale of 1 to 5, it's a 3. Average. I think the failing is that the characters aren't too terribly interesting. They act much the same as each other, since they're all officers. The Doctor and the Vulcan are alright, because they're different, but everyone else is really just more of the same.

As much as I found the ending of Deep Space Nine a big pile of goo, I loved the show at the beginning. Really interesting characters and tons of flavor and backstory. Like a really good D&D game. These characters are being roleplayed poorly, in my opinion.

 

[Mark]

I'm not so impressed. On a scale of 1 to 5, it's a 3. Average. I think the failing is that the characters aren't too terribly interesting. They act much the same as each other, since they're all officers. The Doctor and the Vulcan are alright, because they're different, but everyone else is really just more of the same.

As much as I found the ending of Deep Space Nine a big pile of goo, I loved the show at the beginning. Really interesting characters and tons of flavor and backstory. Like a really good D&D game. These characters are being roleplayed poorly, in my opinion.

I've been impressed with how quickly they cemented the basic chaarcters and then built on them. One of the advantages to making the DS9 characters that isn't available in this series is the liberal spinkling of aliens (which you point out as the two most interesting heh).

They also didn't have the chance to introduce the characters early, spin off style, which I believe is how they brought in Sisco (IIRC?), correct me if I'm wrong. They highjacked O'Brien, Keiko, and eventually even brought in Warf.

I think they've always stuck with the "bridge officers as main characters" formula for the ship-based series. That, of course, was another tradition that DS9 had the opportunity to break (though "substitute" is probably a better word.) *shrug*

Well, I'm rambling, and the show is about to start!

 

[Viking Bastard]

What I have seen of ENT, it has promise, but lacks 'oomph'.

Reed is definately the best character.

Tucker is the most annoying Trek character EVAH. Kicks Wesley's and Seven's butts in that area.

Scott Bakula is a good actor, but isn't been given all that much to work with in the writing department. We were promised some Kirk-like gun-ho-ness. Where is it? He's being beat up every week.

Phlox is funny! That smile rulez!

The rest of the crew is uninteresting, but acceptable. I like 'em, but ain't fascinated of them. I have a weird feeling Mayweather isn't played by a real actor, but is simply a lifeless dummy.

The promised erotic scenes, which they delievered, kinda, but it seems way too forced. Braga should watch some Farscape to learn to do 'sex-in-sci-fi'.

I like the look of series a lot. I like the suliban, while I'm not all that fond of the whole Temperal Cold War (tm) thingy, but I won't complain until I know a bit more about it. I like what they've done with the Vulcans and the Andorians the kewlest Star Trek race evah!

Overall, promising, but bland. Could go the TV-masterpiece route or could become the next Voyager. After all, VOY's first season kicked arse.

They also didn't have the chance to introduce the characters early, spin off style, which I believe is how they brought in Sisco (IIRC?), correct me if I'm wrong. They highjacked O'Brien, Keiko, and eventually even brought in Warf.

Sisko (with a 'k') first appeared in DS9's premiere episode 'Emissery'.

O'Brien and Keiko were recurring secondary characters in TNG.

Bashir appeared in an TNG episode where the Enterprise-D was dropping O'Brein and Keiko to the then-being-converted-to-a-federation-station-from-a-cardassian-one Deep Space Nine. He was fascinated by Data IIRC.

Worf was added to DS9 in season 4. DS9's producers were actaully against it, but Paramount insisted on it. They were trying to bring some of the old TNG crowd to DS9. It didn't work.

I doubt you really wanted to know that, but hey, I rarely get to be the fountain of wisdom around here.

 

[orbitalfreak]

I can't watch Enterprise tonight... My cable's out

boo hoo

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

I have been enjoying Enterprise so far, though I wish it had more of that gung-ho "set phasers on kill, gimme some green-skinned space babes" Kirk-type command style. Bakula is likable but too bland. The vulcan is hot and doing a great job! I hate Phlox, he looks silly and acts even sillier. Reed is okay, but the rest of the bridge officers are either forgettable or annoying. The Andorians were great! I'm looking forward to tonight's double feature... wish there was a bit more violence and romance though, like the original series or DS9. I actually liked Worf on DS9, though the show didn't really need him and his presence was a blatant attempt by Paramount to boost DS9's ratings... I thought DS9 was far superior to TNG or Voyager, or Enterprise... So many interesting, fiery characters all clashing against a backdrop of interstellar/interspecies war! Loved the Cardassians and Garrick and Gul Du'Kat were amazingly cool! Wish DS9 had ended better, but oh well...