Jeremy wrote:I hope they don't considering they would find a way to just completely mangle the story.
Just for the record, I stopped watching Enterprise by about...October last year. It was getting painful.
In any case, even if the new plot does some major history revising, it might not be so bad if it opens up an opportunity to hire better and more military apt writers for Trek. We might actually see a more diverse weaponry inventory for a change. The crew member can actually be decent soldiers instead of these pajama boys. And watching ship battles might actually be worth it.
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By all means, piss on Trek continuity and give me something cool for a change.
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Gandalf wrote:I'd like to see Enterprise become a sitcom, all the stereotypical characters are there, and they have a dog. There's laughs to be had, and not laughs of frustration like now.
Fraiser in space? Or Friends in space.
I don't think the writers have the intellect to write "Frasier in Space", Friends in space could be cool. For a while. Every week they'd visit a planet, one would get sexually involved with a local, another two would have a cultural clash, and in new trek style, the rest grapple with some silly moral issue raised by the locals.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
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Gandalf wrote:I'd like to see Enterprise become a sitcom, all the stereotypical characters are there, and they have a dog. There's laughs to be had, and not laughs of frustration like now.
Fraiser in space? Or Friends in space.
I don't think the writers have the intellect to write "Frasier in Space", Friends in space could be cool. For a while. Every week they'd visit a planet, one would get sexually involved with a local, another two would have a cultural clash, and in new trek style, the rest grapple with some silly moral issue raised by the locals.
Unfortunatly, that would get real old rather quickly, just like "Friends." Has anybody actually wacthed Friends recently? They are all in their mid to late 30s and are still acting like a bunch of over-sexed college kids. Enough all ready!
Back on topic...wasnt the original premise of Enterprise supposed to be to take Trek in a Bold and New direction?
Macross wrote:Back on topic...wasnt the original premise of Enterprise supposed to be to take Trek in a Bold and New direction?
No, it was to continue to suck money from the Trek Cash Cow until it dies of dehydration.
Seriously, they probably wanted to find a new direction after the uber-technophillia of 'Voyager' backfired into audience apathy and cynicism. They were probably hoping to regain viewers with a 'back to basics' concept that reflected the attitude and atmosphere of the original series. However, they forgot that it wasn't the concepts that made TOS a classic, it was the writing by people like Dorothy Fontanna and Harlan Ellison. Without decent scripts, any show is doomed.
On the bright side, I understand that there are now a pair of new script writers on the ENT scene who are showing B&B how it is done.
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