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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cooper" data-source="post: 2248663" data-attributes="member: 24255">That was the most disappointing series finale I can think of in a long time.  Most of my points have already been made by others, but so much of the episode seemed to be leading up to things they just never got around to showing.  Archer's Federation speech is the best example, but I was also left really wanting to see T'Pol meet with Trip's parents.  Also, many of the characters just seemed "off" this episode - T'Pol's hesitancy to trust Shran (it was pretty embarrassing having Archer have to explain racial tolerance to her), Trip's suicidal "I guess I have to blow myself up to stop these invaders even though I'm sure a ship full of Starfleet personnel and MACOs can handle four aliens with guns," and so on.  And tying the whole episode into a Riker and Troi storyline was bad enough, but to tie it into a storyline that we've already seen was a particularly bad move - we already know that Riker's going to tell Picard about the Pegasus cloaking experiments, so where's the suspense?Oh well, I suppose I should just be glad that the entire series wasn't explained away as a holodeck program.As for the previous episode, I agree that that made a much better ending for the series.  I wasn't surprised about Elizabeth's death or status as a clone, though - that way, they've still got Spock as the first human/Vulcan hybrid.  (Elizabeth, as a clone with a DNA error/flaw, kind of "doesn't count.")  And did you notice that the Mars station was named after Carl Sagan?  Nice touch!</blockquote>

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