Despite my complaints against Ent as a Show, these Three Eps are one of the better offerings of the series, but there is still something artificial when watching this series.
Because, the special Effects are many times better than in all of the 90's Treks, but the Scenes on the Bridge, in Waiting Rooms, on Sets, there is some quality that disturbs me, it's like you can tell for the first time, that these are actors acting and Playing on a Set. Maybe it was the way the HD was filmed. Watching TOS, the Movies of the 80's - TNG, DS9 - It always FELT real, it always LOOKED real. But here, some artificial, forced quality exists.
The more I explore Enterprise, the better I will understand why this is. I know how TNG and DS9 were filmed, but this show is almost virtually completely CGI'd - Which is great for Space but not so great for the scenes with People.
After escaping Cold Station 12, the "Arguments" - I call these kids "The Arguments" because that is all they do, they argue with themselves, with Soong, and with Everyone else- The ARGUMENTS are now in Klingon Space.
Which is no problem for them, as they can fake any Klingon ships out with fake Klingonese. But the NX01, this is a Big Problem. A Big Problem fixed by using a common solution used in too many DS9 Eps and Voyager Eps. The NX01 "copies the warp signature of the Klingon Ships" and this gets them into Klingon Space, Scott Free, for a while.
But then the Mullet Kids pull out another 24th century Conundrum - They do some 24th century Fiddling with their Warp signature, and are totally CLOAKED. Too Bad the Klingons never see this and copy it, eh?
Alec Newman becomes fed up with Soong and wants to kill him now. So once again he takes over the Ship except for one person. The One Person helps Soong get away.
But after Alec has sex with this person, he figures out they she let Soong loose so he kills her as well.
Soong helps Ent kill the Bird of Prey and prevents a genetic bomb from blowing up over a Klingon Planet - Thus saving Starfleet from starting another war with Klingons - For the time being.
But somehow, Alec Newman either JUMPS through space onto the Ent, or beamed himself over in the last second - He tries to kill Soong again.
But this time, he can't dodge Archer's Laser, and a huge hole is drilled through his gut.
I hope they saved his blood, so they cold use it to bring people back to life 100 years later... But this will not happen until "Into Darkness"
And Arik Soong, back in his cell, decides to drop BioEngineering, and pick up - Robotics.
So, one of these days, he'll get let out of the hoosegow, and he'll have a few kids who eventually will make DATA.
Regardless of my scathing comments, I actually enjoyed this last installment, which Geordi (Levar Burton) directed.
I have always thought, making a show that goes BACK to the beginnings of Starfleet and The Federation was not the right kind of show for the times - Three Shows had been made about a future Way beyond that.
But Braga treated the whole Enterprise series as IF it were The Next Generation.
It's not that I don't enjoy watching some of this show, but I always set this show aside - It is NOT canon. Neither are the two new JJ Abrams films, but the reason for that is that Canon was CHANGED- Because when JJ does a Time Paradox, things get changed and they STAY that way.
But the whole series of Enterprise describes a "Past" for Star Trek, Original Series- A "Past" that does not Jibe with the Future of that "Universe" or "Timeline" - So, I can enjoy it, if it is another Alternate Timeline of Trek. But I cannot enjoy it as a Past History of Trek, because it is not.
Or Maybe Nero's Pollution of the Timeline in 2009's Trek film, has ripples gong back even to this series. This is the ONLY way I can enjoy this series at all.
Gene had a simple "gauge" for Stories, Scripts, Ideas, races, events: "Is it Star Trek?" In Enterprise Star Trek? That is the question you have to answer yourself, because I won't do it for you, I can only do it for myself.
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