onsdag 17 augusti 2022

Star Trek: Enterprise

 

To boldly go where no man has gone before... again!

Another of the shows that was shown on Swedish Television back in the day. I think they only showed the first two seasons or so... or that could be what they showed on the Swedish Fox channel a couple of years later. Series take place 100 years before the original series and 100 years after mankind built their first warp-engine and first contact with the Vulcans. With their new starship Enterprise captain Jonathan Archer is piloting humanity into the final frontier.

On this journey there is the Vulcan science officer T'Pol, the Denubolan doctor Phlox, chief engineer Trip Tucker, security officer Malcom Reed, communication officer Hoshi Sato and helmsman Travis Mayweather. And Porthos the dog of course. First episode is just taking a Klingon that crash-landed on earth back to the Klingon Home-world... not that exciting really. Most of first season concerns the politics between earth and Vulcan as they try to postpone mankind from traveling space due to not being ready. Then we get the temporal cold war back-drop. Some 800-900 years into the future several races can travel through time so a temporal accord have been set up to ensure that no one dilutes the timeline or take advantage of it. Which is an interesting premise, but feels a bit like cheating when everything is caused by temporal agents. Third season introduces the Xindi, five races that developed from the same planet and have joined together to annihilate earth since they have been told that humans will destroy them. Told by one of the sides of the temporal war. 

So most of season three deals with that after the Xindi destroyed a big part of Florida with an experimental weapon. And after that we end up during the second world war where yet another fraction of the temporal war have hidden themselves and helped the nazis conquer America. All that is solved and nothing affects the timeline as it resets. And then they fill out the rest of season four with filler episodes and the very final episode has cameos from Riker, Troi, Data, Picard and Kirk... I guess it wasn't reviewed that well since it only got 4 season while the three earlier seasons had 7. I don't really complain since 176 episodes are a bit much to binge through after 3 such shows.

Overall I didn't have a problem with it. I found the uniforms decent enough, I like the song even though it isn't an orchestral piece... on the other hand pretty much only the Next Generation was any good. Then again, it was only good for season 1 and 2, less is more and they just add instruments later on. Some interesting plots... but I can't say that any episodes grabbed me like TNG. It feels like a distilled version of all prior series. First season with all the problems feels like the start of DS9 and getting the station to work. After that TNG and original series exploration feeling, and then it goes to emulating the continued story from Voyager with the temporal war that leads to Xindi and then the end of the temporal war (which echoes DS9 again).

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