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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2248934" data-attributes="member: 4779">The Terra Prime second half was enjoyable.  Not great, but not bad either.  Sato's command was the highlight for me.  I always love seeing lower ranking officers put in positions like that and having their mettle tested.The finale:  WTFMany others have already made good points that I agree with above.  The ep was basically well done and looked great with some cool TNG moments but the writing was terrible.  The plotting was half-baked and the whole ep felt like the writers sat behind the keyboard snickering while thinking..."Teehee!  We'll tease the fans with all this cool proto-Federation stuff, toss in some nostalgia from the late 80s and then fade to black just before all the good parts!  And to top it all off, we're going to throw all pretense of drama out the window and just ram the holo-story and fate of the crew down the fans throats.  What fun!"Seeing the starships cross with the voiceovers and such at the end was neat, and the TNG stuff was fun.  It most certainly did not feel like and wasn't an ENT episode and the worst part was that it was designed that way.  If that was supposed to be a love letter than someone was drunk while writing it.  I think I even smelled some barf in there...*sigh*Not only did the holodeck suck completely as a plot device and storytelling method it is terribly hard to believe that any of those intimate moments would have been archived like that in holodeck form.  Sure, there would have been crew logs and such but as a viewer it takes you completely out of the moment because you don't know if that is what really happened or not.  All the stuff on Enterprise would have to have been reconstructed.  The only thing that would have been accurate would have been Archers speach which we didn't even get to see.  Normally, I can look past stuff like this but it all just felt terribly fake and contrived.The one thing this season has proved:  If you give this franchise to people who really care and have some concept of what Trek is than it can really be entertaining.  Yes, the finale was a train wreck but the season as a whole was a smashing success and should be remembered as such.  It gives me faith for the future.  I don't see this as the death of Trek at all.  It's simply the end of a flawed series.I'll leave further speculation on the franchise's future for another thread.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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