Ninja_Squirrel
Regular
Re: Enterprise axed?
If we're talking about bad vs. "decent" vs. good vs. hit-its-stride, I would say War Zone was the one bad episode, Crusade was just beginning to hit its stride with Each Night I Dream of Home, and all the episodes in between are at least decent.
Each Night..., the Dr. Franklin guest spot, was the best episode and the only one I would say is in the A range of quality, most being B or C range. It was the last one aired and, in production order, the last of the first five "un-interfered" episodes, so either way you look at it, I think it was the sign of the quality that the show could/would/should have headed toward.
As far as Enterprise... I think they may have been heading in the right direction in year four by exploring the origins of Trek tech and doing crossovers with future characters, etc. That's probably what they should have done in season one.
However, the last Enterprise episode I bothered paying attention to was the one in which non-corporeal aliens were taking over bodies of crew members in order to study humanity. The only slightly original angle it took was the struggle of authority among the aliens and giving each one a distinct personality. But the moral in the end was the same as usual--humans have great potential and they could have discovered that more easily and less controversially by just talking to them. That kind of thing has been done before.
If we're talking about bad vs. "decent" vs. good vs. hit-its-stride, I would say War Zone was the one bad episode, Crusade was just beginning to hit its stride with Each Night I Dream of Home, and all the episodes in between are at least decent.
Each Night..., the Dr. Franklin guest spot, was the best episode and the only one I would say is in the A range of quality, most being B or C range. It was the last one aired and, in production order, the last of the first five "un-interfered" episodes, so either way you look at it, I think it was the sign of the quality that the show could/would/should have headed toward.
As far as Enterprise... I think they may have been heading in the right direction in year four by exploring the origins of Trek tech and doing crossovers with future characters, etc. That's probably what they should have done in season one.
However, the last Enterprise episode I bothered paying attention to was the one in which non-corporeal aliens were taking over bodies of crew members in order to study humanity. The only slightly original angle it took was the struggle of authority among the aliens and giving each one a distinct personality. But the moral in the end was the same as usual--humans have great potential and they could have discovered that more easily and less controversially by just talking to them. That kind of thing has been done before.
