Enterprise Finale

mood: tired
music: A Girl Like You - the Smithereens

You know, as much as I like Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, I really wish they'd capped their "two hour event" at one hour. (Oh, and how are two completely unrealted episoded back to back a "two-hour finale"?)

I've been reading that the Enterprise cast were not happy with the finale, and, holy cow, I can't blame them. What kind of a slap in the face is it when the main characters of a show are set as the b-plot of an epsiode of another show entirely? As a mid-season episode, the conceit might have been cute. As a finale, it was terrible. In fact, except for the fact that the "big speech" was the treaty signing, and telling is in dialogue that T'Pol and Trip broke up, there was no reason for this episode to be set "six years in the future". Nobody's hairstyle even changed. This should have been a mid-season episode, with the rescue set in the regular timeline.

I can kind of see why they broke up T'Pol and Trip (because otherwise they'd have no excuse for them not to have spawned, and then Spock wouldn't have been such a shock as a halfbreed in his generation), but no idea why they felt the need to kill Trip. Did they not like the actor and wanted to cut him out of potential movie money later? It didn't really have any plot relevance, and, after these seasons we already know the characters are heroes, so that hardly needed to be underscored.

It was just so... pointless. We didn't even see the big speech at the end. And ok, the montage of Enterprises back in time was cute, although it was totally tacked on. They could have tacked it onto the end of any epsisode and called it a finale.

Ah well, at least it's over.

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Posted on May. 14th, 2005 at 02:33 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]shiningmoon

I was never interested in "Enterprise", and the summary of the series finale tells me all I need to know. Even before this series, it was a tired franchise that needed a break. How can we miss it if it doesn't go away?
Posted on May. 14th, 2005 09:04 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]shiningmoon

Oh and by the way, they were listed as two seperate standalone episodes in the tv listings. I guess they decided to try to bill it as a two hour event anyway...
Posted on May. 14th, 2005 09:18 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]theswordsaint

The problems I had with Enterprise... is that it viloated a portion of the canon setforth by Gene in the novels- to include when the Vulcans actually contributed to Starfleet... or the nextgen movie with the contact with the vulcans...

But hey- someone had to make money.
Posted on May. 15th, 2005 02:54 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]spoondave

The Sirtis/Frakes appearances were announced early in the season, before the cancellation. I'm pretty sure that the episode was originally intended to be a midseason gimmick, and that it was reworked into a finale at the last minute.

The whole thing felt pretty hastily thrown together, which was to be expected. I lowered my expectations accordingly. It's also my understanding that there were a lot of angry, bitter cast and crew on the set as it was being filmed, which might have contributed to the slapdash feel in some intangible ways.

That all said, it wasn't as bad as I'd feared it would be. And though this season was an improvement on the last three, I'm glad they're resting the franchise.
Posted on May. 16th, 2005 02:31 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]captainmayday

Oh my god, people still watch that piece of garbage show? I've seen four, five episodes of enterprise tops, and they've all been so disapointing.
Posted on May. 16th, 2005 02:06 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]yduras

Eh...

I gave up on it a while ago, too. I tuned in to see the ending of it.

I have heard that this season (too little too late) was a notable improvement, and the fragments I've seen while chanel surfing this year seem to bear that out.

But, as many people have said, maybe the franchise needs a rest.
Posted on May. 16th, 2005 02:12 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

T'pol and Trip

I'm not much on absolute details..But I followed "Enterprise" and seen it as THE BEST of ALL the Star Trek series (less the original series)...It tied together all the loose ends from the James T. Kirk (Original series), and to include "The Next generation" series...But what disturbs me the most about the last two episodes of Enterprise, was that they (The writers) forgot that in a long ago episode, T'pol was talking to herself from a future T'pol and she told herself that she was going to marry Trip and live happily ever after and so it was her destiny to marry him..What the hell happened to that???? But instead, Trip supposedly dies, but all you last see is them putting him a hyperbolic chamber or some life saving contraption..So did he REALLY DIE?...What a let down!!! Or, did I miss something during that 6 year leap?
BTW...I've watched Star Trek since the first James T. Kirk series..I'm 50 years old
Posted on May. 27th, 2005 04:30 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply