I just saw Star Trek Enterprise Season 4 Episode 18: ‘In A Mirror Darkly’ and I noticed that someone that looks vaguely like Karl Marx leads the mob to raid the Vulcan ship.
Also on another note … what the hell kind of fever dream did the writers drift into with this side story that lasted a few episodes? They just come out of left field for no apparent reason.
I just watched the last episode, which I can now say I’ve finished Enterprise … why the hell did they have twist the knife into your gut at the very end with Trip? … and also … what the hell was that last episode? It’s like they ran out of ideas, saw that the show wasn’t renewed and everyone just ran and ended the series about three or four episodes before the end and called it a day.
That’s more or less the story. Found out they’d been cancelled well into production and cobbled together the most beautifully orchestrated dumpster fire of a finale that sullies both itself and TNG in one fell swoop.
All in all … I didn’t feel like the same heart was in the series like in TOS, TNG, DS9 or VOY … and it’s a big pun because of the theme song they chose
It was a never ending tragedy, terror, war, conflict show that did it’s best to pretend they were moral heroes in a universe full of people that wanted to kill them for no reason other than to hate them … you’d almost think it was subtle propaganda for that weird period from 2001 to 2005 to just keep people thinking that the US is just hated for no reason and factions just want to kill them for merely existing.
I enjoyed it because it was Trek and there were moments I liked it but not very often. Overall, its probably my least liked Trek so far.
Just wait 'til you work through DISCO.
I have gone through DISCO and I liked it a bit better because at least there were a few characters there that I enjoyed and the special effects were great eye candy.
Enterprise never seemed to have any redeeming characters and there were never any spectacular effects to remember … of the crew, my favourite was Phlox and with others one of my most favourite was Shran! which is funny because one of my most hated characters was Combs’ character Weyoun in DS9
We definitely align on favorite ENT characters. As for Weyoun, like with Kai Winn, hating them meant they did their job well.
I like segments of DISCO, like how season 2 was just an elongated backdoor pilot for SNW. That last season though… yeesh.
That was the thing about DS9 … the acting and writing was so good.
Even the villains like Weyoun and Kai Winn are great and memorable because you dislike them so much … even characters like Dukat … or questionable allegiances like Quark or Garak
The main DS9 cast was made greater because the villians were so good … when you think of it, it’s what made Batman so good because the villains were so memorable … Batman is nothing without the Joker … Superman is nothing without Lex Luther … or with the X-men series of having Professor X and Magneto.
That was the problem with ENT, it was too moralistic against faceless enemies … there was never a real story as to why they had enemies … bad guys were just there and played no real memorable role in anything. It was like watching Batman fighting random thugs and there is never any Joker.
VOY had a similar problem. Tried the Kazon, the Vidiians, the Hirogen, a few one-offs, and then back to the Borg once the Queen concept had been established. The main goal of reaching home over such a distance left them leaving behind any credible ongoing threats. Why else create the transwarp network if only to allow the Borg to become a consistent nuisance?