Quick Take on "Enterprise" Finale
Originally posted by Alex, on Thursday May 22, @08:45AM
I tuned into the Enterprise season finale, "The Expanse", hoping to be
spun into excitement for next season. It didn't happen. Rick Berman &
Brannon Braga (the producers of the show, and main writers for this and many
other episodes) appear to me to be determined to use time travel as the main
plot device of the show. This is disappointing. Two of my favorite Star
Trek shows and movies, "City on the Edge of Forever" (ST:TOS) and Star
Trek IV: The Voyage Home, used time travel to great effect. The difference
in those cases were that the time travel itself was an isolated incident and
took a backseat to the story. The whole notion of the "Temporal Cold War" story
arc in Enterprise has bugged me. I think "The Expanse" does set up some
interesting times for the crew next season, but I firmly believe B&B aren't
really interested in keeping continuity with previous Trek works.I may
post a more detailed Season 2 analysis later.