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Yes, the paper-thin plot of the Pegasus and the wierd acting of Jolene Blalock aside, the ep wasn't as bas as everyone was saying. However, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out two things:
1. Trip's death was abso-friggin-lutely unnecessary to the story. It just came out of nowhere, was acted horribly by everyone, and ended very idiotically (Trip's goofy smile, then, next scene, he's dead!) But what made it all the more useless was that after it happend, everyone was acting like it, well, didn't happen. No one said anything about it at all, not his crewmates, his former Vulcan friend/lover/masseuse, not even Archer! It's almost as if the whole scene was just inserted after the fact, and the reason why we didn't see Trip at the ceremony was because he was in the bathroom or something.
2. The fact that the speech that Trip gave his life (!) so that Archer could give, was, well, not even seen. Instead, we get a terrific view of Frakes's and Sirtis's backsides as they exit the holodeck.
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I was very impressed with most of the set recreations, especially Ten-Forward and the Observation Lounge. Yhey both looked spot-on, to me at least. The corridors, on the other hand just didn't seem right.
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I came in ten minutes late, so I didn't see the Ten Forward set. I agree with the Observation Lounge, but I thought the corridor set we saw was well done. I did think the doors were the wrong shade of orange, though ...
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Was that shot of Picard a body double, or reused footage?
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I did notice that the turbolift looked absolutely nothing like the actual one.
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Hey - in the establishing shot of the room where the Federation accord was to be signed, did anyone notice that the red carpet was jumping all over the place? The CGI in that scene struck me as especially horrid.
The interior holodeck doors were orange when they were supposed to be grey
The interior Observation Lounge doors were also orange when they're supposed to be grey, plus, they were labeled when they're not supposed to be.
The E-D turbolift was completely off.
There was a Kazon there on Rigel X when no one in the quadrant knew of them.
The E-D cgi was great, but the reg number on the pylons were missing.
But hey, NX-01 is a museum ship that survives up to the mid-24th century!
They're working on the Warp 7 project! (Which may be why NX-01 is being decommed.)
Nothing seems to contradict the Sato and Archer bios from the Defiant's historical database.
I was hoping for some name dropping of some other Starfleet ships in reference to the crew's future assignments. It would have been nice to see some other ships as well, but this was from Riker and Troi's standpoint.
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From what I gathered, there are already ships with warp 7 (at least being built). It would be silly to decomission technology one generation old if the new things aren't out yet...
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Well, it wasn't bad (a step up from "Endgame", certainly), but it wasn't good either. It does work better for me as a finale to Trek as a whole than a finale to Enterprise, but only marginally so.
Trip and Shran really got the short end of the stick here. Trip didn't need to die, and Shran didn't need booted from the Imperial Guard and made into a criminal.
It was good to see Riker and Troi again, although I still think it would have been better to see them around the time of Nemesis. Troi's short conversation with Data elicited a grin.
I really wanted a line or so in which Archer (with a wink and a nod) comes up with the name "United Federation of Planets."
No mention of the Romulan War, but Riker does seem to establish that there was no ban on cloaking tech prior to the Treaty of Algeron.
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Yeah I was disappointed with the way Shran was portrayed. Considering all he's done for Enterprise that was not the way to portray a character for the last time (Well at least he was a good father).
The entire scene where Trip dies was sort of stupid. He seemed outta character. I feel a better way to die would have been for the alien guy to attempt to shoot Archer and Trip getting in the way of the blast.
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Actually, I think "Endgame" was better, since at that point they just didn't really care. This was just a foul ruining of both Enterprise S4 and a previously-good Ron D. Moore TNG ep, and I think it was intentional on both counts.
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