What is 'Enterprise' missing?

[Hand of Evil]

Fresh and interesting stories. Come on, we know the Fed is going to be made, we know some of the history but what do we get, mostly cookie cut stories that we have seem before or really don't chanange us. Take Farscape or even B5, gritty stories lots of gray and stories that make you concerned about your place or what you would do.

Star Trek is a brand name and needs to become hungry and aggressive in their stories.

 

[Ranger REG]

A continuous plot (tighter and better than what DS9 had).

Heh. If ENT is half as good as DS9 in that regard above, then it would have been ten times better than what I'm watching now.

Braga just have to follow continuity with regards to the established Star Trek timeline, leading up to the formation of the Federation. I just hope he does the Earth-Romulan War arc just as well as DS9 did with the Dominion War arc (which should occur in Season 4).

 

[Hand of Evil]

Oh, it is also missing a good villian race! They have bad guys but they change from week to week. They need a good foe race!

 

[Viking Bastard]

doesn't even have to be a whole race, just a recurring villain (other than Silik) that has nuttin' to do with the TCW.

I mean, what would DS9 have been without Dukat? Or Weyoun?

Still pretty damn good, but not AS GOOD!

Oh yes, this is me being wise 'n stuff!

 

[Darius101]

What is it missing?

I would say that the newest sereis is good but it is missing that Roddenberry touch. His vision of a good future...
The original vision has become cloudy as of late.

It is also missing a number of elements that enterprise occasionaly get's almost right, as has been mentioned here.

I agree with you about making it more episodic as opposed to standalone. B5 did a wonderful job at that. DS9 did as well. Voyager's version of episodic TV fell very flat in my opinion but that was due more to bad writing than it was a fault of the cast.

Just my 2cp,
Darius

 

[Polydamas]

Hmmm. I have a theory....it's about heroes. I can't think of any of the Enterprise crew that really inspires me.

 

[John Crichton]

Taken in context, they are all heroes. Every member of the crew. The risk their lives to expand humanity's horizons and understanding of the universe. Yeah, it's just a show but that was part of the original Trek vision, IMO. If you don't think any of them act like heroes of the acts they have done so far don't impress, so be it but that doesn't define a hero.

 

[uv23]

I don't thinks its necessarily missing anything. I think the problem is that its another clean cut, uninspired Trek series. Its time for Star Trek to end. Either that, or come up with a vastly different idea. Enterprise was a mistake. They should have thought along the lines of a show based around a klingon or romulan crew or something sufficiently different to make it unique. Or freebooters in the vein of Firefly without all of the western cowboy crap. Sure, it takes place in the past, but not once have I thought to myself "hmm this feels really different from TNG/DS9/Voyager."

 

[Hand of Evil]

Taken in context, they are all heroes. Every member of the crew. The risk their lives to expand humanity's horizons and understanding of the universe. Yeah, it's just a show but that was part of the original Trek vision, IMO. If you don't think any of them act like heroes of the acts they have done so far don't impress, so be it but that doesn't define a hero.

THANK YOU! It is forgotten by so many that people what a hero really is. I think ENT does show that each member of the crew is an exployer, pushing understanding and kowledge in dangerous enviroment.

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, they may be heroes by other definition or deeds, but I don't have any attachment to any one of the ENT characters the way I have attachments to at least one character in each Trek series.

(FYI, my attachment to the Asian Harry Kim of VOYAGER is one of pity, simply because he can't get a girl to go steady with him ... not even Seven of Nine.)

I just have no emotional attachment or liking toward any one of the ENT character, not even Captain Archer, played by Scott Bakula who once starred in my favorite time-travelling TV series (the only TV series that features temporal dynamics that I can tolerate).

Look, maybe it's still too early to tell. After all, it took me quite a while for the little ship USS Defiant on DS9 to grow on me. Initially, I could not stand for the design, but like the A-10 Warthogs, I can see how well it performs.