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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2248712" data-attributes="member: 14159">I didn't mention it at first, but I'll also agree that not hearing the speech (at least the beginning of it) was a big let down too.  They built up right before that to it being important with Troi mentioning she had to memorize the speech in grade school, making it seem like the Federation's version of the Gettysburg Address.  I was excited to hear what might be said, some opening phrase that might be the Star Trek equivalent of "Four Score and Seven Years ago. . .".   Maybe him just saying "Space, the final frontier. . ." establishing why that was such an important phrase for the Federation, just like "where no man has gone before" was a quote from Zephram Cochrane which they established in the pilot.  Fading out on him making that speech, or some delegates signing the Charter, or some other historic moment would have been cool.  I felt a little betrayed when the episode began to fade out on Picard's voice-over.  Sure it segued through Kirk and Archer, but the mood of an Enterprise finale was ruined with all that."These are the Voyages" wasn't an episode of Enterprise, it was an episode of Next Generation made 10 years later with an entire second cast as guest stars.  All the dramatic tension of the episode by it being a holodeck scene.  You know exactly how the frame story with Riker goes, and there's no real dramatic tension with the Enterprise crew.  The real dramatic tension of the effective finale of 18 years of televised Trek was a story about a kidnapped Andorian little girl?I also realized that the last episode had to include the decommissioning of Enterprise NX-01, the only way B&B crammed it into continuity without breaking too much was that it wasn't a Federation ship, since Enterprise-D was many times said to be the fifth Federation Starship to bear the name.  I also wonder how long until a fan produces a "Phantom Edit" style version of The Pegasus with the two episodes edited together in chronological order.  I guess it could have been worse for a TNG crossover ending.  The series could have ended with a voice-over from Riker going "Computer, end program", the entire ship fading to a holodeck, Riker muttering something about amusing alternate-history holodeck programs and walking out.</blockquote>

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