On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:46:27 -0500, Jack Bohn <jackbohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Zombie Elvis wrote:
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>>On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:49:42 -0800, A Watcher
>><stocksami@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>I liked STE also. It was quit different from the other Trek series so
>>>many of the Trek fans didn't like it much. I didn't like the other
Trek
>>>series nearly as much as STE, but different strokes for different
folks.
>>
>>Interesting comment. As a longtime Trekkie (I grew up on TOS, enjoyed
>>TNG, loved DS9, and hated Voyager), I felt that the opposite was true
>>-- Enterprise was too much like other Trek series, specifically it was
>>too much like TNG. It was as if B&B had taken all of their rejected
>>ideas from TNG and Voyager and put them into Enterprise, sometimes
>>without even bothering to change the names.
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>I've wondered if ENTERPRISE is not so much "Star Trek for people
>who don't like Star Trek," as "Star Trek for people who don't
>know much Star Trek." You have Enterprise with a Vulcan first
>officer flying for something called Starfleet, which -- if you're
>not going to say "Beam me up, Scotty," or "He's dead, Jim" -- are
>about all John Q. Public needs for Star Trek, the rest can be
>cobbled together from parts of Buck Rogers or Star****p Troopers.
You might be on to something. I can remember all the fanboyisms when
Enterprise started up: "Wait a minute, wasn't Spock supposed to be the
first Vulcan in Starfleet? Wait a minute, what happened to the UESP --
didn't that come before Starfleet? Wait a minute, that's just an Akira
class ****p with rightside up nacelles!" I dismissed a lot of it myself
at first but they kept throwing TNGisms at me every other week: Earth
was a perfect, peaceful, paradise a full century before a
super-advanced alien dismisses humans as "still half savage." They
used "phase pistols" instead of "phasors" and added "photonic
torpedoes" instead of "photon torpedoes." In one episode Archer gets
all self-righteous about alien hunters as in a manner reminiscent of
Riker's comment about enslaving animals for food in TNG's first
season. The longer I watched the harder it was to escape the feeling
that I was watching a bad copy of TNG.
That's what makes it so surprising when someone says that Enterprise
was different from other Trek series -- superficially maybe but the
cliches were the same.
--
"Please captain, not in front of the Klingons."
-- Spock
Roberto Castillo
robertocastillo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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