Enterprises

Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Second Season
$69.98
I stumbled upon the original Star Trek series as a kid in it's initial run in 1966. The episode was "Devil In The Dark". A story about silicon based beings, and learning to appreciate and cohabitate with them. I've since seen every episode of every Star Trek incarnation, most of them multiple times. The point is, I have some credentials.

What made Star Trek soar, was that it was a show of IDEAS. And it was pretty much the first sci-fi space show where the aliens didn't come out blasting, in a bid to exterminate humanity for whatever fear-based goofy reason. People who were tired of the old warn out themes of good guys vrs bad guys, now had a place to turn. Gene Roddenberry was a thoughtful visionary, who humbly loved the fans, and genuinely believed in Star Trek, and the better angels of humanities hopes and dreams that it represented. He was hands on through every episode of the original Star Trek, and Next Generation. And he brought in a variety of top notch writers with great ideas.

When Gene became ill, Rick Berman took over. Gene never liked Rick due to his arrogange, and incredible disdain for the fans. Rick never shared in Gene's vision, and treated the audience as simpletons and sheep, churning out half-hearted off-handed scripts. After Gene died, Rick became increasingly disrespectful of the Trek tenets.

With Enterprise, Star Trek became yet another two-dimensional comic book good guys vrs bad guys show. Nowhere was this more evident, than with the Xindi saga. Ideas took a back seat. Further, imagination was undercut with the whole premise of Enterprise. With space exploration, people want to explore the frontiers, not go way back in time to the beginning. Who wrote Enterprise? Rick Berman, and his right hand yes-man Brannon Braga. Only at the end, with the shows ratings sinking like a stone, did they bring in some talent. Too little, too late.

I love Star Trek, but putting bias aside, and taking off the rose colored glasses, Enterprise was a bad show that sullied the great Star Trek name, and for the most part, you can pin that squarely on Rick Berman. I thank the lord he had nothing to do with the new Star Trek movie. Memorable quote. Rick and Gene are walking across the Paramount lot, and Rick says pompously waving his hand "See all these people, they all work for ME". And Gene replied "Funny, they all worked WITH me".

May a new series return, at the farthest edges of the future, with ideas not yet explored.

Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 High Definition Ship
$50.00
I purchased the "HD" Enterprise model on Amazon. Upon receiving it, it appeared to me to have been previously used. There were several scuff marks on it. In addition, the model appeared to be of the cheap "snap together" variety, with the seams in the engine nacels and the area immediately beneath the hanger deck splitting open. The instructions also indicate that if you press the bridge dome for 5 seconds, the bridge, nacel and running lights will stay on. They do not.

In sum, this appeared to me to be a cheap and poorly constructed product that did not live up to its advertising.

Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Fourth Season
$69.98
This is the worse season for any Star Trek franchise ever. I've been a Trek fan almost my entire life but even I am upset at the shows they did for this final season of Enterprise. While I've never been a fan of Scott Bakula in his role as captain, I think he did some of his best work in both the 3rd and 4th seasons. That aside the weak attempt to draw some sort of correlation with the other franchises by doing a show set in the alternate universe was pathetic to say the least. I got the idea they knew they were gone after this season so took license to do whatever they thought would be fun for them, forget the Star Trek franchise and forget the fans. This show was for the cast. And to top it off, the season finale was disconnected from the preceding shows because it was set several years after the last show of the series. Add to this that it was a holographic recreation being used by Commander Riker was again pathetic. I've heard some say that we'll pretend that Enterprise never happened and to tell the truth, I agree. We need to just forget this series for the poor attempt to make the Vulcan's interesting again and their inability to stay true to what the fans want and that is more Star Trek, not their desire to remake it into something of their own creation.

Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete Third Season
$69.98
I stumbled upon the original Star Trek series as a kid in it's initial run in 1966. The episode was "Devil In The Dark". A story about silicon based beings, and learning to appreciate and cohabitate with them. I've since seen every episode of every Star Trek incarnation, most of them multiple times. The point is, I have some credentials.

What made Star Trek soar, was that it was a show of IDEAS. And it was pretty much the first sci-fi space show where the aliens didn't come out blasting, in a bid to exterminate humanity for whatever fear-based goofy reason. People who were tired of the old warn out themes of good guys vrs bad guys, now had a place to turn. Gene Roddenberry was a thoughtful visionary, who humbly loved the fans, and genuinely believed in Star Trek, and the better angels of humanities hopes and dreams that it represented. He was hands on through every episode of the original Star Trek, and Next Generation. And he brought in a variety of top notch writers with great ideas.

When Gene became ill, Rick Berman took over. Gene never liked Rick due to his arrogange, and incredible disdain for the fans. Rick never shared in Gene's vision, and treated the audience as simpletons and sheep, churning out half-hearted off-handed scripts. After Gene died, Rick became increasingly disrespectful of the Trek tenets.

With Enterprise, Star Trek became yet another two-dimensional comic book good guys vrs bad guys show. Nowhere was this more evident, than with the Xindi saga. Ideas took a back seat. Further, imagination was undercut with the whole premise of Enterprise. With space exploration, people want to explore the frontiers, not go way back in time to the beginning. Who wrote Enterprise? Rick Berman, and his right hand yes-man Brannon Braga. Only at the end, with the shows ratings sinking like a stone, did they bring in some talent. Too little, too late.

I love Star Trek, but putting bias aside, and taking off the rose colored glasses, Enterprise was a bad show that sullied the great Star Trek name, and for the most part, you can pin that squarely on Rick Berman. I thank the lord he had nothing to do with the new Star Trek movie. Memorable quote. Rick and Gene are walking across the Paramount lot, and Rick says pompously waving his hand "See all these people, they all work for ME". And Gene replied "Funny, they all worked WITH me".

May a new series return, at the farthest edges of the future, with ideas not yet explored.