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<blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 724333" data-attributes="member: 363"><p>I like Enterprise quite a bit. It is lacking something, though. What I think it lacks is any sense of anything truly epic, something truly larger-than-life taht challenges the heroes. The Temporal Cold War has the potential, but I'm kind of tired of Trek dealing with time travel so much. When I think of epic stories in Trek, I think of the old series, with Kirk going up against Apollo, or duking it out with Khan, or discovering giant amoebas, or racing to head off a doomsday device that seems unstoppable, or battling their own evil counterparts. Yeah, I know stuff along these lines was dealt with in later series, but they somehow seemed small when dealt with in Next Gen or some of the other series. There is very little sense that they're truly exploring - even in Enterprise, when they mention they're studying this or that phenomenon (comets, etc.), it just seems like they give quick lip service to it and then jump into the current plot involving wheeling and dealing with another human-with-a-funny-nose race of aliens. Enterprise has, thanfully, moved away from all that somewhat, but it has yet to break with all the Trek baggage it needs to shed so it can seem like they're covering new ground. B5 had its war with the Shadows, the enigmatic Vorlons, Lorien, the First Ones, etc. Old Trek had Khan, Harry Mudd, the Squire of Trelane, the Andromedan aliens, and a hint of the Cthulhu mythos. I'd love to see some of that kind of stuff in Enterprise.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ColonelHardisson, post: 724333, member: 363"] I like Enterprise quite a bit. It is lacking something, though. What I think it lacks is any sense of anything truly epic, something truly larger-than-life taht challenges the heroes. The Temporal Cold War has the potential, but I'm kind of tired of Trek dealing with time travel so much. When I think of epic stories in Trek, I think of the old series, with Kirk going up against Apollo, or duking it out with Khan, or discovering giant amoebas, or racing to head off a doomsday device that seems unstoppable, or battling their own evil counterparts. Yeah, I know stuff along these lines was dealt with in later series, but they somehow seemed small when dealt with in Next Gen or some of the other series. There is very little sense that they're truly exploring - even in Enterprise, when they mention they're studying this or that phenomenon (comets, etc.), it just seems like they give quick lip service to it and then jump into the current plot involving wheeling and dealing with another human-with-a-funny-nose race of aliens. Enterprise has, thanfully, moved away from all that somewhat, but it has yet to break with all the Trek baggage it needs to shed so it can seem like they're covering new ground. B5 had its war with the Shadows, the enigmatic Vorlons, Lorien, the First Ones, etc. Old Trek had Khan, Harry Mudd, the Squire of Trelane, the Andromedan aliens, and a hint of the Cthulhu mythos. I'd love to see some of that kind of stuff in Enterprise. [/QUOTE]

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