Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 2:09:00 GMT
6/10
Mostly not good. The ship was wrong for the time - clearly the producers wanted something that looked "Trek", with the saucer and nacelles, but ships of this time should have been more Daedalus inspired, if not an actual Daedalus class. I'd have been happy with something like the Pacific 201 version of the Daedalus.
I'd also have preferred more primitive tech. The Enterprise version of primitive tech was to call things by different names but have them behave exactly the same. And sometimes the different names were only slightly different. So no phasers, but phase cannon. No shields, but polarised hull plating that behaves exactly like shields right to "Hull plating at 50%!" I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
Why not just make the ship heavily armoured? Lasers for long range fighting, but they don't do a lot of damage. Missiles with nuclear warheads for closer range work, kind of like submarine warfare with one hit, one kill. Make it noticeably different and less capable.
And they talk about how the ship is slower all the time, yet it still crosses large distances in whatever time it needs to take. Most notably getting all the way back to Earth in (apparently) a few days after the Xindi attack, after it took them like two years to get that far out in the first place.
Anyway, I know not everyone is bothered by technical stuff like that, but it bugs me. I did appreciate their relying on shuttles far more and not really trusting the transporters, though, so there's that.
Outside of tech stuff, the characters were mostly weak. I get that they were supposed to be still on the learning curve and all, but geez, there are limits. And I didn't care for the asshole version of the Vulcans that we saw in Enterprise.
The stories varied, as usual, but there weren't that many real standouts in season 1. They ranged from bad to okay, basically. The Temporal Cold War was a bad idea, and it soon became obvious that there was no real thinking behind it, they just kind of threw it in there and hoped they could turn it into something good as they went along. No surprise to learn after the fact that the producers never had any clue who "Future Guy" really was, and in fact never even had a name in mind for the character.
Positives... the actors were generally good (the guy who played Mayweather was dreadful, though). The special effects were almost universally excellent. I liked Phlox, and I liked the weird alien things they would drop in about him from time to time.
And compared to what CBS is putting out these days, Enterprise was a damn masterpiece.
Mostly not good. The ship was wrong for the time - clearly the producers wanted something that looked "Trek", with the saucer and nacelles, but ships of this time should have been more Daedalus inspired, if not an actual Daedalus class. I'd have been happy with something like the Pacific 201 version of the Daedalus.
I'd also have preferred more primitive tech. The Enterprise version of primitive tech was to call things by different names but have them behave exactly the same. And sometimes the different names were only slightly different. So no phasers, but phase cannon. No shields, but polarised hull plating that behaves exactly like shields right to "Hull plating at 50%!" I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
Why not just make the ship heavily armoured? Lasers for long range fighting, but they don't do a lot of damage. Missiles with nuclear warheads for closer range work, kind of like submarine warfare with one hit, one kill. Make it noticeably different and less capable.
And they talk about how the ship is slower all the time, yet it still crosses large distances in whatever time it needs to take. Most notably getting all the way back to Earth in (apparently) a few days after the Xindi attack, after it took them like two years to get that far out in the first place.
Anyway, I know not everyone is bothered by technical stuff like that, but it bugs me. I did appreciate their relying on shuttles far more and not really trusting the transporters, though, so there's that.
Outside of tech stuff, the characters were mostly weak. I get that they were supposed to be still on the learning curve and all, but geez, there are limits. And I didn't care for the asshole version of the Vulcans that we saw in Enterprise.
The stories varied, as usual, but there weren't that many real standouts in season 1. They ranged from bad to okay, basically. The Temporal Cold War was a bad idea, and it soon became obvious that there was no real thinking behind it, they just kind of threw it in there and hoped they could turn it into something good as they went along. No surprise to learn after the fact that the producers never had any clue who "Future Guy" really was, and in fact never even had a name in mind for the character.
Positives... the actors were generally good (the guy who played Mayweather was dreadful, though). The special effects were almost universally excellent. I liked Phlox, and I liked the weird alien things they would drop in about him from time to time.
And compared to what CBS is putting out these days, Enterprise was a damn masterpiece.