Last Star Trek Tonight!

[Lamron]

Don't forget! The two hour series finale is tonight! (Friday) The Anti-Hot-Vulcan-League is responsible for the tragic end to this series. We must find their home planet and make them pay for this outrage!

[RedRock]

Lamron said:

The Anti-Hot-Vulcan-League is responsible for the tragic end to this series. We must find their home planet and make them pay for this outrage!

Thanks, Lamron, for the affirmation! I was beginning to think I was the only one who prefered the new Vulcan (T'Pol) over the old one (Spock), and I have been somewhat in babe-withdrawal since Voyager went off (my favorite Voyager episode with 7 of 9 was when the EMH wrote a play/novel with triplets of 7 of 9, and one of them cooed petulantly, "I'm not One, I'm Two of Three!" (sorry if I botched the dialogue, but that's the gist of it, anyway). And Riker and Troi are in the final episode, too. Funny how I mentioned Riker recently in these forums, isn't it?

Oh what memories and cultural tie-ins this series has brought us! For those who are too young to remember, years ago (?80's) there was a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit with Jim Belushi (I think) doing Captain Kirk, about when the network (?CBS) cancelled the original Star Trek series, and the network weenies even came in and ripped off Spock's ears (as props owned by the network, going back into storage) from his head while the Enterprise crew was on the bridge of the starship going about their business. The skit basically ended with Kirk saying that during the 5-yr mission to seek out new worlds and boldy go...blah blah blah... that they had found intelligent life with the exception of one television network!.

In Living Color, the ?90's TV series with the many talented black actors/actresses (the Wayons et alia), also had a wonderful Star Trek skit, "The Wrath of Farrakhan," with the Reverend Farrakhan invading the bridge of the Starship Enterprise and inciting rebellion of the subjugated crewmembers from their White Boy Cracker Captain, and even Spock was a mutineer in that skit!

Well, in my area, the final 2 eps of ST: Enterprise don't come on until 11 PM Eastern and 12 MN tonight, so ssshhhh, don't say anything to me about them if I see you before then!

[Lamron]

I thought the first hour (actually part two of last week) was pretty good. The story lines and chemistry among characters keeps getting better. (AHVL, you will rue the day you cancelled this!)

But I was kind of disappointed with the actual finale. I thought that showing the last days of Enterprise A as just a holo-recording for Riker to watch, kind of cheapened the whole thing. And after the way the first hour ended, we're supposed to believe that Trip and T'pol didn't stay together? Not believable. And where did Riker get this recording? There are no holo-recorders on Enterprise A recording every minute of every day. Shaky premise if you ask me.

Maybe its just because they were supposed to be showing an event six years later, but didn't it seem like the actors were uncomfortable with this episode? Maybe unhappy about the anti-climatic ending of the series. They didn't interact with their usual style and grace.

I would have prefered an exciting, last minute, are-they-all-going-to-die, save the universe type of ending. It would have been a more fitting end for the toughest Captain and crew we've seen on an Enterprise. I will miss this documentry.

[RedRock]

I agree. I believe the finale was done by the writers themselves as a way of their saying, "We're artistes, look how neatly we can interweave all these stories and plots, don't you think we're just the cleverest people ever?" Sure, the Pegasus was a good episode of ST: TNG because of the tension between Picard and Riker (in fact, wasn't it chosen as one of the top ten fan favorites and shown as such right before STTNG showed its' 2-hour finale?), and this fleshed out (sorry, but the term is appropriate, after seeing Fraker and Sirtis last night) Riker's character, but it wasn't necessary, and it did take away mightily from ST: Enterprise and how it might have gone out in a blaze of glory! And not even to give us a taste of Archer's speech (I am not even really sure what was being voted on/signed that he was speaking about, to be truthful) is poor, no, not poor, it's ..... illogical. Well, at least we got to see those cut little clumps of hair curling under those pointy ears, about the only fresh thing that happened, apparently, after 6 years.