Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 5, 2007 5:42:17 GMT -5
Star Trek: Enterprise was going to be great. I was so excited when I first heard of the concept (I have been a long time proponent of taking Star Trek back to its origins and exploring the vast Star Trek historical timeline). During the last season or so of Voyager I read from many sources that Paramount was interested in creating a new show. I thought of several possibilities that I found intriguing. The one I favored the most was a rotating 4 era show (similar to a mystery series I used to watch as a kid with 3 or 4 different detectives rotating each week.) 1. A TOS era show that followed the adventures of a different star ship than Enterprise. The Intrepid or Constellation. 2. A movie era show at the time of Admiral Kirk based on another crew. 3. A STNG/DS9/VOY era show, again with a different crew/ship than Enterprise with possible guest appearances by familiar characters. 4. A future era, possibly Enterprise based. I knew assembling a large cast and having 4 different sets might be daunting but I was excited by the possibilities of fleshing out some of the back-story and unexplored plot tangents of Star Trek in general.
Then I heard of what the Enterprise premise was going to be and I thought it was a stroke of genius. Now here is a chance to really dig deep into Star Trek history. So many events and characters of the past were mentioned during the course of Star Trek that getting to experience them first hand would be tremendous. (Kind of like SRD writing a series of books based on the Old Lords.)
HOWEVER!
Though Enterprise began in the right spot it has repeatedly trampled the established Star Trek timeline and outside of several interesting events in the first season, the program has formed an exclusive continuity bubble for itself that protects it from what we long time trek fans view as cosmic fact.I’ll give one example. Time travel before the TOS episode “Tomorrow is Yesterday”? NONSENSE! I watched season one with some fascination. I noted that the show seemed a little confused about the direction it wanted to go but that is common with most first seasons. With each new season I find myself less and less inclined to watch. (I find the Xindi plot line tiresome for the most part.) Bottom line is that Enterprise is simply not the show I wanted it to be and it is the first Star Trek spin off series that seems to have little reverence for the storylines set down by its predecessors.
