Friday 4 February, 2005
Enterprise cancelled
Most geeks have probably by now heard that Star Trek: Enterprise's current season will be it's last. I have mixed feelings about this - while I freely admit it wasn't all it could have been, I still enjoyed Enterprise most of the time. Third season was pretty good, and this fourth season has been interesting too. Granted, nothing that moves the earth under my feet, but pleasent enough. My biggest problem with the series was the total lack of originality - let me quote Startrek.com:
Fans of Star Trek: Enterprise know that the fourth season has been a milestone in connecting the history of the prequel series with the rest of the Star Trek universe. We've seen great story arcs including one dealing with Vulcan socio-history, set on their rather inhospitable homeworld, and one centered on Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of Data's creator, Noonien Soong. Other episodes include "Daedalus" about the "father" of the Transporter, Emory Erickson, and an upcoming storyline addressing the Klingon forehead mystery. Those, along with a trilogy starting tomorrow night fleshing out Original Series-era aliens — Andorians, Orions, and Tellarites — and presaging the Romulan Wars, give us a mix of stories that demand attention by the long-time fan. And if these stories aren't enticing enough, perhaps the coup de grâce of Season 4 will be the two-part story "In a Mirror, Darkly," a script that revisits the mirror universe but focuses on the power struggles of Captain Forrest and Commander Archer and the discovery of a rather special starship.
Instead of concentrating on doing something spectacular and refreshing and new, they've concentrated in ripping of old concepts and storylines from previous series in the hopes that they would "demand attention of the long-time fan". Well, most long term fans are pretty pissed off with this treatment - instead of bridging the history between TOS and rest of the new series, Berman & Braga have made it their speciality to contradict many facts that have been take for granted. They may think that it's funny and clever but frankly, it bores me.
Yes, I'm a bit sad it's over as I kept hoping something exiting would come out of it... And I greatly enjoyed most of the acting, espcially by Scott Bakula, and there were some good characters and interesting relationships going on. I would imagine this won't be the last Star Trek series ever produced, but I assume it will be quiet for a while. If only I had hope that the next one would be better than this.
Meanwhile, we'll be looking forward to some good sci-fi in the future. Stargate SG-1 is continuing with season nine - while this wouldn't normally be enough to get me too exited, only they've hired Farscape's own Ben Browder as a regular cast member and Cladia Black as a recurring character, my expectations are quite a bit higher this time. And of course, it's looking like Galactica is getting a second season so that will be high on our list. Here's hoping more good sci-fi...
And so say we all.
Posted by kolibri at 4 February 23:41, 2005Oo, it will be interesting to see Mr Browder as some other character. As Claudia Black put it herself: "Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben..." :)
(Kolibri can give closer details because she was there ;).)
# 2 - Chu (on February 8, 2005 03:24 AM):
And meanwhile, I do recommend ABC's Lost.
# 3 - kolibri
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(on February 8, 2005 10:42 AM): Chu's reference comes from the time when we went to see An Audience with Claudia Black with the TFL folks, and someone in the audience (was it the Tourettes girl? Rel will remember!) asked who she preferred rolling around in the ground with, Ben Browder or Vin Diesel.
Her answer was "Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben...". Now that's one tough pick - if only making that choice was my only problem :)
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