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[QUOTE]Originally posted by J: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [qb]The characters are rather distinguishable from the 24th century. The storylines are rather distinguishable from the 24th century. The atmosphere is rather distinguishable from the 24th century.[/qb][/QUOTE] Ok, first a question... You have been watching ENT and you have seen at least 10% of any other Star Trek episodes [especially TNG, DS9, and VOY since taht is what you mentioned]? Issue one.. the Characters: No, they are not. T'Pol and Trip have the same arguements/disagreements/relationship that Tuvok & Neelix and Odo & Quark had... All of which is based on Spock & Bones. Archer is an experienced leader like all the other Captains [yes, it would be nice to have a person with a lot less experience period]. Reed is cocky, in some ways like Chekov and Worf were. You tell me how the Archer-Sato relationship is different from Janeway-Kes or Janeway-Seven. I'm sure others can add to the list... the characters in the least reflect those characters in other series, at most they mirror them exactly. Issue two... the story lines: "Broken Bow": 1. Previously unknown & unencountured alien runs into trouble... our heroes save the day. 2. Time travel causes the whole problem, bringing the characters into a fight that they shouldn't have been involved with from the start. 3. Another, previously unknown & unencountured alien is fighting/bothering/generally antagonizing the original aliens. Our heroes are caught in the middle and forced to take sides. "Fight or Flight": 1. Previously unknown & unencountured alien runs into trouble... our heroes try to save the day. 2. Another, previously unknown & unencountured alien is fighting/bothering/generally antagonizing the original aliens. Our heroes are caught in the middle and forced to take sides. 3. Our heroes weapons are inadequete [though for the first time they are woefully inadequete, a slight change from other series]. 4. Something happens to turn the tide in the fight where our heroes discover their weapons are inadequete... quite simply put, deus ex machine in most cases. [For once the machine was not owned, created, or used by our heroes... a slight difference from other series.] "Strange New World": 1. New planet/ship/station/asteroid/moon/nebula [in short new location in which the characters have not been before]. In the process of exploring the new location the characters come across something extremely unsuspecting which becomes the plot of the episode. 2. The item/energy/etc that was unsuspecting before, was either not detected/discovered/or was simply ignored before hand. [Simply put like the water on Psi 2000, the transporter accident that created Tuvix, or the Barkley T-Cell De-evolution Virus... those mountain flowers at the beginning of the episode later became the "bad guy"]. 3. Something from outside causes problems between the crew [in this case a drug, but it has been the Maquis, Borg, a virus, ship-wide memory wipe, etc.] 4. Mysterious figures that could be aliens [but for once, they actually weren't]. "Unexpected": 1. An alien gets one of the crew pregnant, and nobody really knew [Troi's kid Andrew]. 2. Previously unknown and unencountured aliens are in trouble... our heroes comes to the rescue. 3. Our heroes have never encountured the alien's technology but are able to fix it [O'brien and Tosk, Paris and that body snatcher in Vis`a`Vis]. 4. The aliens take/give our heroes something and we need to find them to fix the "problem." [Vis`a`Vis is a good example of both in a way. We get a fake Paris and the real Paris is out there.] And that covers all the episodes I've seen so far. Issue three... the atmosphere: For once you may be... uh, not really. 1. TNG did explore somethings no one else had and had a bit of flare concerning it. "Encounter at Farpoint" fits this well. Coming across Q was unexpected. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" also touched a little on this. --- ENT seems to take a little from this. 2. VOY and DS9 both had unexplored territory. VOY had the Delta Quadrant and for the first few seasons DS9 had the Gamma Quadrant. DS9 handled it like TNG did, pushing out the bounderies that were established. VOY had the difference in this area by the want to return to those bounderies, but also pushing them out along the way. --- ENT again applies, exploring the unexplored. 3. There is a major difference in the way ENT goes about exploring compared to the others. The others might have had an "idea" of what was out there, ENT does not. The others were slightly prepared for what was out there, ENT is not. The others had experience in the unknown, ENT does not. But the atmosphere of "We're going out to explore the unknown because it's unknown" is the same. So your statements are false. The characters, storylines, and atmosphere are similar to, draw from, and sometimes mirror that of TNG, DS9, and VOY, as well as TOS. Now it is based on Star Trek, but this does not explain the almost exact duplication, nor does it explain how you missed it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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