Saturday, May 16, 2015

Star Trek: Enterprise

I have been a fan of Star Trek since I can remember. I love the optimistic view of the future. All the different aliens are cool. Then I decided to watch Enterprise (later Star Trek: Enterprise). While I still love Star Trek, nothing will ever change that, I hate everything about Star Trek: Enterprise. A lot of people will give reasons why they didn't like it that mean little or nothing to me. One reason I have heard is the way the Vulcan's were portrayed. That they were snobbish and they had little to no respect for humans or Starfleet. I have to say that that did not bother me. I actually liked that portrayal. I have always seen Vulcans as very snobbish and condescending. I'm probably the only one who thinks that. But I don't care.

The stories were ok, and some of them were even quite interesting, but they forced story points so that Captain Archer had plenty of moral quandries to consider. To set up the directives of the Federation. But all that did was to have the Captain portrayed as a whining, wishy-washy man. I did not like him. None of the characters made much of an impression on me.

There are a few things that stand out to me that I thought were amusing or interesting. The first is the episode in which Hoshi Sato tries to figure out what Lieutenant Malcolm Reeds favorite food is for his birthday. It was not the main point of the episode but it was apparently the most interesting part for me because I don't remember what it was. And I found it funny that she found out that it was pineapple because he took an alergy medication to stop from having an allergic reaction to it. Another thing I like was the alien species the Andorians. Mostly because of the duel nature of Commander Shran. He really disliked Captain Archer but still helped out the Enterprise crew just because he was mad about owing a dept to Archer. I also really liked the Xindi. I am just really interested in seeing what an Avian-Xindi would look like.

I barely remember the television series because it was uninteresting. I tried to read a novel based on the series to disaster. It made me hate this part of the Star Trek universe.