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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2259557" data-attributes="member: 30035">I wasn't as unhappy with it as many of you obviously were.&nbsp; But it was, well, disappointing.&nbsp; I would have prefered to see the series go out with the focus on Archer &amp; crew, not Riker &amp; Troi.&nbsp; Having them shut down the holodeck program and walk off was not a good way to end the series IMO.&nbsp; &nbsp;I would have liked to hear Archer's speech, but my fiancee had a good point:&nbsp; Archer had given an impassioned speech at the end of the previous episode.&nbsp; The producers probably thought it was a bad idea to have a character give a speech in two episodes back to back.&nbsp; A friend of mine also suggested that the &quot;These are the voyages...&quot; bit at the very end might have been intended to be part of Archer's speech.&nbsp;Apparently in the ST universe lack of promotion is normal since Riker has never been promoted either.&nbsp; At first I thought the Riker/Troi bit was supposed to be set after the end of TNG, which made it seem really ridiculous that Riker was still a commander!&nbsp; It was hard to accept that the framing story was set during the other series, since Frakes and Sirtis looked so much older.&nbsp;The story did have one really moving moment, though:&nbsp; when Trip died and Phlox confessed to Archer that he thought of the crew as his second family.&nbsp; Why is it that Trek's non-human doctors became some of the best characters?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 2259557, member: 30035"] I wasn't as unhappy with it as many of you obviously were. But it was, well, disappointing. I would have prefered to see the series go out with the focus on Archer & crew, not Riker & Troi. Having them shut down the holodeck program and walk off was not a good way to end the series IMO. I would have liked to hear Archer's speech, but my fiancee had a good point: Archer had given an impassioned speech at the end of the previous episode. The producers probably thought it was a bad idea to have a character give a speech in two episodes back to back. A friend of mine also suggested that the "These are the voyages..." bit at the very end might have been intended to be part of Archer's speech. Apparently in the ST universe lack of promotion is normal since Riker has never been promoted either. At first I thought the Riker/Troi bit was supposed to be set after the end of TNG, which made it seem really ridiculous that Riker was still a commander! It was hard to accept that the framing story was set during the other series, since Frakes and Sirtis looked so much older. The story did have one really moving moment, though: when Trip died and Phlox confessed to Archer that he thought of the crew as his second family. Why is it that Trek's non-human doctors became some of the best characters? [/QUOTE]

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