- Mood: Enlightened
- Quote: -- Which wants and desires of yours are not fulfilled?
-- We want the Enterprise!
-- The Enterprise is not a want or desire. It is a mechanical device.
-- No, it's a beautiful lady, and we love her.
-- Illogical, illogical...
- Episode: TOS #41 "I, Mudd"
- Character: Alice 471 and Captain Kirk
In case you haven't already heard, the Enterprise series has been cancelled.
Oddly enough though, I can't say I'm terribly disappointed. Of all the series it's the one I've had the hardest time getting into, and I've never been sure why. But a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor regarding the cancellation points out a lot of the things that have bothered me about it. Click here to read the article.
What it really boils down to, I guess, is that Enterprise got so caught up in its temporal war, and later eugenics wars, in an attempt to fulfill Star Trek history, as well as trying to work in everybody's favourite races, that it lost sight of Star Trek's original message: Exploration!
In trying to show us some of these things they also seemed to violate canon. While I never saw the episode, I understand the crew got a real good look at what Romulans look like. Well that violates canon established in Star TrekOriginal Series #9 "Balance Of Terror," which established prior to that episode, the only human contact with Romulans had been audio contact only--no Romulan or Human had ever seen the face of the other. Even Spock made us aware that Romulans being distant off-shoots of Vulcans was not publically known among Vulcans--when Surak presented Vulcan with the philosophy of total logic over all else, they had probably tried to forget the fact that a section of their population had left. Therefore it would be illogical (pardon the word, I couldn't resist) for Captain Archer and crew to have actually laid eyes on Romulans, as surely something as monumental as that and their close similarities to Vulcans would have been recorded and made public knowledge at least among Starfleet Command and Vulcan High Commision (or whatever it's called in Enterprise era).
Okay, that's my spiel. Don't get me wrong, I still think Enterprise has some merit, but it ranks 5th for me among the five Trek series.
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