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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vogon Poet: [QB] OK, I'm an [i]Enterprise[/i] nay-sayer. To those who look forward to the new show, that means I'm a continuity-obsessed nerd who thinks Berman and Braga are the sperm of the Devil. Fine. I think those people who'll watch it without question are shallow individuals who can't bear the thought of not having a bloody TV show to give meaning to their lives. Now, let's move on. . . Ths issue of continuity - how important it is, and so forth - has been done to death. So too has the question over the target audience, but I'd like to look at it in a different way. I'll get back to B&B later. We're told that [i]Enterprise[/i] is returning to the very soul of Star Trek. This is simultaneously a very clever idea, and a very brave one. Clever, because Star Trek is a part of popular culture - and by 'Star Trek' I mean TOS. People who remember Kirk will identify with Archer, see McCoy in Tucker, Sulu in Mayweather, Uhura in Sato, and Spock in T'Pol. They'll click with setting the phase(r) pistol on stun, beaming down and "Ahead Warp 5." It's brave because it's so easy to screw up. And, while they may not care, they run the risk of alienating the hardcore fans who've kept them employed this far. It'd be VERY ironic if you people - who never really got [i]Star Trek[/i], grew up on [i]Star Trek: Funny Forehead of the Week[/i], really liked [i]Star Trek: Space Battle of the Week[/i] and got so annoyed with [i]Star Trek: Spatial Anomaly of the Week[/i] - ended up hating [i]Star Trek: Continuity Nightmare[/i] because it wasn't what you'd come to expect expect after 14 years of Braga fodder. Which is where story comes in. If there's one thing I can say with certainty after all these years here, it's that story doesn't matter to the likes of 'us.' "The Sound of Her Voice" was a nice little story but all I've ever seen discussed about it here was what class the [i]Olympia[/i] might be. Trek has gotten really stale. Even the non-arc eps of DS9 were pretty turgid most of the time. Why? Because the stories weren't very good. In a fundamental sense, the crews were encountering much the same situations that, say, David Banner did when he came to a new town in [i]The Incredible Hulk[/i]. That's a sweeping generalization, which most of you will nitpick in a way only teenagers can. Indulge me in my aged vices. Berman and Braga are partly to blame for this. [i]Voyager[/i] may have been a very flawed show, but it could have been turned around. Look at [i]Babylon 5[/i] - something I know most of you REALLY hate to do, but indulge me once more. It survived the departure of its leading man after one season, and turned it into a bonus. Shame it couldn't do the same with the departure of its leading lady in the last season. . . All I'm sayting is, [i]Voyager[/i] could havebeen turned around. But we're also partly to blame. Why should they put a lot of time into the story and the actors when, in the final analysis, just giving us a glimpse of a starship with a partly-visible registry will keep us occupied for months? So. Never mind that the [i]SS Enterprise[/i] is just an [i]Akira[/i] with its nacelles pointing upwards (and it is: no amount of "the hull's a slightly different shape" apologism can contradict that). Also, no matter that they CAN make contact with, say, the Betazoids without violating any continuity that'll really matter. They need good stories. Different, unusual, [i]X-Files[/i]-like episodes that make you say "whoa, neverseen that before." A good arc structure that leaves you guessing where they're going with it, not telegraphing each new move like [i]The Jem'Hadar[/i] - "oh no! These are our new enemies and they're really mean!" I'm looking forward to it. I'm not confident, but I want to see what happens. After all, if you'd asked me month ago when I was going to do an [i]Enterprise[/i] weapons page, I'd have said "when Hell becomes a popular tourist destination among the Breen." 8) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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