Re: COMMENT: star trek: enterprise- a humble mans opinion
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BobbieTheDamned on
Dec 01, 2010; 3:39am
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I've always disliked Enterprise for the massive numbers of things they change from the existing star trek continuity, stuff that was specifically mentioned in various series just gets thrown out the window by the writers. For instance, in the TOS episode "Balance of Terror", the first episode with the Romulans, its said that this is the first time an earth ship has seen a Romulan vessel since the war between earth and Romulus a century earlier. Despite that they turn up in Enterprise.
There are some good episodes and some good stories, they just don't really fit into the rest of star trek all that well. Doesn't have any of the charm that a lot of the rest of star trek does, I'd rate it above the early series of DS9 but that's about it.
I do like some of the characters, Plox is ok, Reed is good fun if a little 2-dimensional. T'Pol is the only character for me that is really interesting, but even she's just a re-working of Spock. Commander Shran the lead Andorian character is also pretty cool.
Archer isn't a bad captain, but he's more a Picard than a Kirk, he's got some balls but he's more a thinker than a man of action.
this is the FIRST deep space ship earth has sent out
I hate to contradict but no its not, its the first 'warp 5' ship that starfleet have sent out. There are plenty of earth ships deeper into space than Enterprise, like all the earth freighters they bump into, it just takes them a lot longer to get anywhere. There are plenty of mentions of ships launched by starfleet before the NX-01, which was launched nearly 100 years after the events of 'First Contact'.
Kirk had a dog called Butler, I don't know dogs so I have no idea what breed he was (seen in Star Trek: Generations)
Butler is a great dane. Janeway's dog was called Mollie.