Post by MCDemuth on Jan 1, 2019 19:08:51 GMT
I grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, and it will always be one of my favorite shows...
But one thing that always bothered me about TNG, DS9, & VOY... the shows set in the 24th Century... was how "perfect" everything was...
Humans rarely did anything wrong... The technology could solve almost any problem... And the Enterprise looked like some massive hotel on the inside... Even meeting new Alien Species & Encountering spacial anomalies was just another day at the office...
I found it hard to "relate" to...
Encountering the Borg was one of the highlights because it was something that, in a way, reset everything to ZERO... It was a real challenge to deal with, on every level...
With Season 1 of Enterprise, Everything was new. It was the first Starship. Heading out into the Galaxy. They had to learn how to deal with everything. No Prime directive. Technology was just starting to be developed. Limited weapons. It really was manned by a crew that was the Best Of The Best... and that still was not always enough...
The Enterprise had to return "home" to get weapons installed to deal with hostile aliens. Something that Picard never had to deal with...
Baseball Caps, Sunglasses, Pockets, Archer threatening to knock T'Pol on her "ASS", and a ship built like a submarine... Are we sure this wasn't a show set in the Early 21st Century?
It sure seemed like it could be in our near future... one that all of us might be able to experience.
I also loved how they were able to tone down the Technobabble too...
"Warp 7"?
WTF does that mean?
"Warp 4.5"... "NEPTUNE AND BACK IN SIX MINUTES!"
Now that is something I can start to understand!
The "Temporal Cold War"?... Yes, I wasn't a fan either....
I too agree, that is something which shouldn't have been brought up, until the series was more underway... And I still think it would have been too much...
In my opinion, it was a great show... and I too, liked the theme song...
Personally, I preferred the earlier seasons to the later ones... But I enjoyed the entire series.
Season 1: 8/10
But one thing that always bothered me about TNG, DS9, & VOY... the shows set in the 24th Century... was how "perfect" everything was...
Humans rarely did anything wrong... The technology could solve almost any problem... And the Enterprise looked like some massive hotel on the inside... Even meeting new Alien Species & Encountering spacial anomalies was just another day at the office...
I found it hard to "relate" to...
Encountering the Borg was one of the highlights because it was something that, in a way, reset everything to ZERO... It was a real challenge to deal with, on every level...
With Season 1 of Enterprise, Everything was new. It was the first Starship. Heading out into the Galaxy. They had to learn how to deal with everything. No Prime directive. Technology was just starting to be developed. Limited weapons. It really was manned by a crew that was the Best Of The Best... and that still was not always enough...
The Enterprise had to return "home" to get weapons installed to deal with hostile aliens. Something that Picard never had to deal with...
Baseball Caps, Sunglasses, Pockets, Archer threatening to knock T'Pol on her "ASS", and a ship built like a submarine... Are we sure this wasn't a show set in the Early 21st Century?
It sure seemed like it could be in our near future... one that all of us might be able to experience.
I also loved how they were able to tone down the Technobabble too...
"Warp 7"?
WTF does that mean?
"Warp 4.5"... "NEPTUNE AND BACK IN SIX MINUTES!"
Now that is something I can start to understand!
The "Temporal Cold War"?... Yes, I wasn't a fan either....
I too agree, that is something which shouldn't have been brought up, until the series was more underway... And I still think it would have been too much...
In my opinion, it was a great show... and I too, liked the theme song...
Personally, I preferred the earlier seasons to the later ones... But I enjoyed the entire series.
Season 1: 8/10