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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bernd: [QB] I was warming up to Enterprise after seeing "Broken Bow" which had a fascinating historical story that couldn't have been shown in any other series. "Fight or Flight" was a standard plot, but it developed quite differently from what it would have been like in Voyager. This doesn't apply to "Strange New World" which was too much like all the paranoia things we have seen before. This is just to say that I can indeed enjoy a prequel in which the look and feel, the course of the plot, and the (inter)actions of the characters are sufficiently different from what we have seen in Star Trek before. I'm not (any more) on a "Crusade" to prove that Enterprise is bad, I'm only pointing out things that have gone wrong. And a D-7/K't'inga and holotechnology in the 22nd century are wrong, no matter what kind of excuses are made up for it. There are loads of good reasons why the Klingons of the 22nd century must have older ships. The argument that Klingons are warriors not engineers is a cheap excuse in my opinion. Warriors frequently need new weapons. Even the good old bat'leth may have been improved several times by using new alloys, and the same should apply to ship hulls. The Klingons are not Hirogen, they want to win a battle and not have the thrill of fighting a superior enemy with traditional hunting rituals. They are eager to get the new holotechnology as well as they quickly adopt cloaking devices over 100 years later, but their ships always stay the same? Moreover, Klingons are waging war all the time. They frequently need to replace ships, even much rather than an organization of peaceful exploration. No one can tell me the Klingons wouldn't come up with always new designs, if they need new ships anyway. Finally, in TOS the Klingons were clearly on the same technological level as the Federation, which makes a lot of sense since it was supposed to reflect the Cold War in the real world. At that time, the Soviets and the Americans kept the balance of power by developing new horrible weapons and countermeasures almost in parallel. It doesn't seem that the Klingons were very busy to develop anything new from 2151 to the end of the Cold War, if they are still using their old rust buckets. Finally, in "Once More Unto the Breach" Kor mentions the old D-4 cruiser. Since the TOS cruiser and the K't'inga are different ships but share the designation D-7 ("Prophesy"), what in the world could be a D-4, if not a really different looking (older) ship? And what the hell would the Klingons do with holotechnology? Agreed, they could do some battle practice, but isn't it essentially exactly the type of convenience the Klingons always reject? It is incredibly bad continuity that a fully functional holodeck shows up in the hands of a major race 200 years before it is available on Federation ships. Anyone remember how excited Riker was about it in "Encounter at Farpoint"? Or Picard in "The Big Good-Bye"? Or Lwaxana in "Man Hunt"? This was something really new. It just makes no sense if the Klingons get their hands on this holotechnology 200 years earlier than the Federation (while their ships always stay the same). It seems there are many fans who (quite unlike it was the usual attitude towards Voyager) just buy everything that is presented in Enterprise, as long as it doesn't violate continuity in a very narrow definition. Where's the limit of tolerance? Klingons riding on pink elephants? That wouldn't be a continuity breach either, since we have no evidence that Klingons are not supposed to have pink elephants. Okay. I agree. The battlecruiser doesn't violate continuity in a very narrow sense. But continuity is worth nothing without plausibility. Decide for yourself, but I don't want to see a show in which anything is made possible with silly quirks and far-fetched explanations. This need not apply to all of Enterprise, but it is a very bad sign that, although we could have had a really new ship, we got the Akiraprise. Although they knew exactly that the Klingons would show up, they didn't bother to create a new old ship for them (and some fans are even grateful for that!). Although they promised old tech, they needed only four episodes to show us a fully operational TNG holodeck. We know that any series has its "Spock's Brain" or "Threshold", but with that degree of laziness and carelessness Enterprise has the potential for lots of episodes of that kind. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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