Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 3
£29.97
BEST Star trek season ever - And when i write ever, i mean from all the different Star Trek seasons.This season has it all ... the tension and mystery is very present from episode 1 untill the last ep.All the main characters are given more realistic human qualities and flaws.THIS IS A MUST BUY for all who liked Star Trek at some point.In short for the whole series of Enterprise : season 1 = weak / season 2 = mediocre / season 3 = super /season 4 = great (close to S3)
Enterprise, Schmenterprise! - The problem with Star Trek Enterprise is it lacks confidence, or rather the studio which made it lacked confidence during production. Executives were stepping ina ll the time trying to secure high ratings and often intervered with the plot lines, a situation that peaked in the early days of the new Star trek movie when producer Rick berman left the studios his early script idea was rejected. The story lines are familiar Trek concepts but Enterprise seems way to heavy in laser fire battles in ship corridors and insipid american way ideas. Year three is basically the same as the borg story wth a big metal ball hurtling towards earth set on destruction...yawn. The opener to year 4 is set in nazi occupied earth...(wasnt that a Voyager story???), oh and somewhere in year 2 there is an episode set in the wild west...EVEN BIGGER YAWN. Worth knowing I skipped the nazi story because basically - who cares! I was very frustrated how the lead character Cpt Archer seemed to self appoint his historic prowess without any real merit. He is not great to look at (in fact none of the male cast are) and seems to make stupid decisions that just would nt happen. For example in Year 4 he is the one who climbs up the the tube to stop pathogens killing everyone - when the obvious choice is to get the agile security chief to do it (who had to tell archer what to do in the first place). He tortures a man for information and steals a warp core...ruuuubbbiiisssshhhhhh! This is all repeated over and over. Archer is always being the hero. The most laughable shot is when they destroy the Xindi weapon and a slow mo archer is seen running to camera while a ball of fire erupts behind him, inches from engulfing him. I nearly spilt my tea it was so shockingly bad. My belief is that the actor playing Archer became a bit to insistant on this hero status (once, he went against the produers wishes and insisted on being unshaven in an episode, because that s how he felt his character should be). The fact seems that he was actually just going for a macho look and it was all a bit of vanity. Anyway, to summerise, if you want a weak vulcan who nearly blubs with every difficult decision (in years 3 & 4 anyway), a butch bloody minded engineer with an accent that sounds like he is sucking a marble, a fat doctor who overacts, a black pilot who never has any lines, a Thai comms officer who is scared evertime a torpedo is fired and a captain who loves himself so much you want to vomit - and a collection of 20 and 30 somethings all loving themselves for their ineptitude - then Enterprise is DEFINATELY for you! I d wait till its £9.99 a box set thern you can make lots of cheap ashtrays with the discs.
Excellent Series but be careful!!! - This is an absolutely excellent series!!! You re gonna love it, however I do urge you to be cautious, The first disk is faulty in the two copies I have bought, from different companies, there appears to be a fault and the lasering isnt successful and the episodes either skip or dont play atall. If you can find a good copy then great cos it is an excellent series, but be warned!!, ENJOY!!!
Idiot Writers! - Series 1 & 2 of Enterprise are fantasic! Easily the best Start Trek ever made. New and fresh and with believable and interesting story lines. From series 3 however, the writers just lose the plot. There s even one episode where the crew turns into monkeys! Oh, come off it! The story lines in series 3 are just too ridiculous to be believable. Did the writers really have to create scenario where Captain Archer and Enterprise literally save the world? How tedious is that! By the end of series 3, you are totally sick of hearing the word Xindi.Then there s all of this nonsense about time travel which plays a significant part in the saga. It s just too ridiculous to be believable. The writers have really done a poor job here. Don t they realise that part of the charm and magic of the show is its believability? Don t they realize that trekkies are looking for fantastic technologies and seeing how they are used, and for new life and how humanity interacts with it, and the exploration of strange new worlds. The occassional battle is okay too - but not one lasting a whole season.Overall - I m not impressed and there s no doubt in my mind that it s the crap writing that did for Enterprise which was canned after series 4. What a waste!
Series 3 is ok but there s too much focus on the Xindi - I bought the third series of Enterprise after enjoying series one and two quite a lot. However whilst I enjoyed a few of the episodes from this series, I was dissapointed about how much time was spent on the Enterprise s search for the Xindi. Whereas the previous two series had an even mix of serious episodes and more light hearted episodes, series three has mostly serious episodes which include a lot of phaser fighting. Whilst many Star Trek fans will enjoy this kind of episode, I was left feeling less than satisfied.Series 3 isn t bad by any means and the chemistry between the characters remains quite strong but it does lose much of the humour that was in the previous two series.