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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] I'm just going to stick my two cents in. I think that as a series, Enterprise is overall much better than The Next Generation, which really had a fairly awful first season, and didn't do that much better in the second. The problem and resentment with Enterprise, I think, stems from an audience which is to a large degree "Trekked-out." If Enterprise had been delayed until several years after Voyager had left the air, I think the audience (in general) would have been much more receptive. I admit, I haven't watched Enterprise much. My schedule doesn't allow me the same days off on a week-to-week basis (and my VCR doesn't work), but when I do watch Enterprise, I see arc-based story-telling, and a concious effort to make the show (story-wise, at least) a closer cousin to Deep Space Nine than to any of the other ship-based shows we've seen. I don't think the show is done as well as Deep Space Nine was, but I do think that Berman & Braga have to the degree they've been able to, tried to combine the success of TNG with the success of DS9, and I think in that aspect, they're doing a good job. Where I think they've already failed is that the Trek audience has been alienated by Voyager or other percieved slights. I think a lot of Trek fans are just bored by the franchise now, which does seem to favor many "retold" stories. On the other hand, if you had never seen any Trek, and you watched Enterprise first, followed by TNG, the "recycled plots" would probably be a reason listed for a dislike of TNG. I don't think the problem is as much with Enterprise as a series as it is with when the series is being watched, and with a PTB trying to inject creativity into a staff of writers and producers without realizing that maybe, just maybe, it's the PTB themselves which may be inhibiting such a lack of creativity based on their own previous Trek experiences. I don't know if that made a bunch of sense, but I do think that the arc-based stories like we've seen this current season have helped improve the show, I think that Enterprise standing on its own merits (and not judged by any other series) has been consistently good, and I also think that Berman and Braga are creatively stunted in so far as Star Trek is concerned, and that it would only help the franchise if they move on after Enterprise ends its run. Now, I'm not saying I hate them. I hate Voyager, certainly, but Berman has to a large degree shaped The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine (even if so by his lack of interest in it), and certainly he's got a claim to what I perceive as the success of "Enterprise." I just think that Berman and Braga incapable of thinking "outside of the box" to the degree needed to inject interest again in a new Trek ship-based series, and that after Enterprise's run, the franchise should be put away for a few years - even a decade or two, and brought back with a new approach, and better yet, a new NCC-1701- ... K? :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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