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Archers Enterprise?
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I only found Enterprise watchable because of Scott Bakula. I fucking love that guy. He instills in me warm fuzzy feelings that I don't fully understand.
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I just imagine that Enterprise is just another season of Quantum Leap and at the end Sam finally made it home.
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Lago PARANOIA wrote:So, I finally saw the Gazelle speech. It was awful, but the amazing thing is that it's awful in a variety of subtle ways that makes it hard to express your revulsion succinctly. Anyone want to take a stab at it? Or how about just some Enterprise hate in general?
The Gazelle speech is mostly completely terrible because of context. If he were using it as a motivational speech to get someone who had fucked up to go back to work, no one would care. Instead, he's saying it to a Vulcan who thinks that humans are immature and have no business being in space despite having not been involved in any obvious screw-up this time.

So basically Archer just comes out and says "the worst possible things you think or even suspect about us are true and there's dick all we are going to do about it." and for some reason that makes things OK? Archer doesn't refute or even explain away any of the criticism, even though the criticism was based on something factually incorrect.

It was a bog standard Trek Captain Speech, but it didn't address the situation at all. It was like they just had a bunch of these things on a shelf and popped one out whenever Archer's mouth needed to move and they never noticed that this particular one happened to be making literally the worst possible point for the point in the story it was supposed to go. It's not just that it's clunky and irrelevant dialog, it's that it exposes a layer of formulaic hack writing to allow this particular clunky dialog to even happen. It's like going to print with a boom mic in the camera field, but this time you can see the writers putting together vaguely Trekish dialog together with a big chart and some percentile dice.

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Post by Concise Locket »

Enterprise Season 4 was what the show should have been out the gate. Trekkie fan-service wrapped in an interesting story wrapped in Trekkie fan-service. But it was too late in the game. Still, "In a Mirror, Darkly" remains one of my favorite Trek episodes.
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Why do some people think that season 3 of ENT is better than season 4? While this is a minority viewpoint, it's not a fringe one either.
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Watching TNG season 1 episode 7, the one where Wesley fucks everything up for Ryker's shore leave.
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