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Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise 344

Posted by CmdrTaco from the stuff-to-read dept.
Steve Krutzler writes "TrekWeb has posted a brand new interview with actor John Billingsley (Doctor Phlox on Enterprise). He talks all about the second season of the Star Trek prequel including the upcoming episodes "A Night In Sickbay," "Minefield" (featuring the first encounter with the Romulans!) and "Dead Stop." He also talks about the character of Doctor Phlox possibly falling into the 'Neelix Trap' and says he wishes the series would kill more people off like the original Star Trek!" Billingsly was great on a recent episode of SG1 too. I'm seriously excited for the next season of Enterprise. I don't think I've ever said that about any of the other Trek series.
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  • nit picking (Score:2, Informative)

    by Trinity-Infinity ( 91335 )
    Bah.

    We all know the first encounter with the Romulans was in TOS episode "Balance of Terror", featuring none other than Mark Lenard (who went on to play Spock's father Sarek) as the Romulan commander.

    Pppht. I'm a girl too ya know :P
    • C'mon, what kind of geek are you? :-)


      The Romulans had a war with Earth many decades earlier than the Original Series episode. There were no face-to-face encounters. Just bloody space battles.


      The question is, will Enterprise honor this bit of continuity?

      • You're right of course... the 'face to face' bit is what makes the whole episode :)

        But what's an episode with pivotal enemies without even seeing them? Hmmm.

        Then again, I was impressed with the introduction of the Andorians (much better than "Journey to Babel" with the Andorian assasin).
      • Nit picking about ST:TOS is useless, I certainly hope they dont keep complete continuity. For example do you want the Klingons to look like humans with bad hair-do's, ala TOS??? Ergh...

        To actually keep continuity with every single TOS episode, you would have to rewrite just about every single TNG / DS9 / VOY / ENT episode ever since!

    • There are plenty of us out there to nit pick the entire Star Trek canon :-)

      Balance of Terror was a damn fine episode, but they are really going to have to be careful with continuity. Just look at the Ferengi, they got by with saying that 'we can include them because their race name was never mentioned'. A nice way of showing the Romulans is to have a plot line revolve around one of their ships (relating to the catalyst for the war)... but that is my 2 cents.

      I'm pleased with Phlox's development, in that he is a very strong character, I especially liked John Billingsley in the Stargate ep a couple of weeks ago, especially his lines about 'the shrine to Gene Roddenbery'.

      Note to /. editors, when is Star Trek goign to get it's own section (instead of just 'Television'), Star Wars has it's own!

    • Who went on to play the Klingon Commander in Star Trek: The motion picture.

      And, IIRC, he had a cameo in ST: FC before he died (Looking up at the landing ship)

  • Typical Enterprise Episode (Score:5, Funny)

    by happyhippy ( 526970 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @06:34PM (#4108332)
    1. Goto new planet or space phenomenon.
    2. Imply Vulcans are either stupid and/or evil.
    3. Marvel at planet or phenomenon.
    4. Go down to planet/phenomenon.
    5. Get into trouble.
    6. Shoot at bad aiming aliens and escape planet.
    7. Wrap up episode implying how Vulcans are agian evil/stupid.
    • Actually, you are missing a BIG point that went with the origional Trek series...

      4.5 Captian tries to get in bed with whatever good looking female's available.

      and dammit, bring back the ultra-mini skirts but replace the pantihose with fishnets!

      seriously, Enterprise is the ONLY trek that I have ever set my VCR to record on a regular basis... TNG was too sanitized,DS9 was too much like hawaii-five-oh, and voyager was just a bad attempt overall. I love the fact that most every alien out there can kick the enterprise's arse. And I do believe that they should be a bit more violent... like load a shuttle full of explosives and give it to an alien attacker... (Ala B5-sequel style) or how about mining an entire solar system?

      Humans by nature are violent pricks... let's let the show degrade into a slugfest!

  • Yeah! Bring back the Ensign mortality Rate!! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    There is nothing quick like being able to watch an episode of star trek and being able to guess who is going to die based on whether you know his name or not.

  • Phlox and Romulans (Score:4, Interesting)

    by nedron ( 5294 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @06:46PM (#4108405) Homepage
    OK, I'll admit that I don't think Enterprise is very good. I also don't think TNG, DS(, or Voyager were very good either.

    That being said, I really like John Billingsley and fell he is the only redeeming feature of Enterprise.

    As for the Romulans, I can only assume it will be the Romulans of TNG/DS9/Voyager and not the Romulans of Star Trek. I'm still unsure why it was necessary to swap the virutes of the Romulans and Klingons, but that's just one of the major changes Berman/Pillar have made to the Trek universe.

    Ah well.
    • >I'm still unsure why it was necessary to swap the virutes of the Romulans and Klingons

      Even in TOS the Romulans were divided between honorable soldiers and slimy politicians. Remember when the centurion hinted that the commander might face reprisals for demoting the twit who broke radio silence?

      The characterization of Klingons changed more than the characterization of Romulans did. In Errand of Mercy, Kor had a ready-made, prenumbered Special Occupation Order for rounding up hostages. In Heart of Glory, Worf said "Klingons do not take hostages". Now, Worf did have a naive civics-book notion of what it meant to be Klingon, but notice that the renegade actually did release the little girl instead of using her as a shield.

      • Re:Phlox and Romulans (Score:3, Interesting)

        by nedron ( 5294 )
        I just finished reading Errand of Vengeance: The Edge of the Sword [amazon.com] by Kevin Ryan. He made the unfortunate choice to use many ST:TNG period Klingon attributes that read like speed bumps in a Star Trek novel. You're cruising along and then, bang , "Sho vo kor", speed bump. OK, I'm getting into the book again and, bang , "Kahless", speed bump. Rolling again, gaining speed, bang , "Klingon honor", speed bump. None of these would be out of place at all in a TNG novel and wouldn't cause me problems, but having them in s Star Trek (or Star Trek, The Original Series as Paramount insists on calling it) is a real distraction since they don't belong.

        The same thing happened with the lamentable "Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars". Everything was fine with the first book until the pointless addition of many TNG/DS9 characters. Even worse, the author decided that we couldn't possibly differentiate between reality and science fiction and tried to hide the events of the Eugenics Wars in our modern milieu. Ugh.

  • Ensigns (Score:5, Funny)

    by Cyno01 ( 573917 ) <Cyno01@hotmail.com> on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @06:48PM (#4108416) Homepage
    what happened to the expendible extras in star trek? kirk: the away team will consist mof myself, spock, bones and ensign billy, now this mission could be dangerous, one of us may not make it back..."
    • And the infamous anecdote is that any such ensign wearing RED is the one that inevitably gets killed! Don't believe me? Check those old TOS episodes again....
    • You know, when we first went into space, we knew it was dangerous. Plenty of people died, and we were sad about it, but we didn't freak out. By 1987 we had apparently changed, to the point where we really did freak out when the Challenger blew up, and it took us years to get the space program back on track.

      Analogously, when red-shirted ensigns bit it on some dangerous, unexplored planet, Kirk was mad, but that didn't stop him from going erect when some cute alien chick walked by a few minutes later. Hey, going where no man has gone before is supposed to be dangerous. You have some funerals and you get over it!

      This attitude was much less visible by the time Piccard took over command. Ensign mortality went waay down, and the few that bit it were mourned much more deeply. It's just like the Challenger thing: by TNG, people got into the mindset that interstellar space is not so dangerous after all, so they found the occasional ensign mortality appalling. They were also much better prepared to manage the risks of space. (Would Kirk have sent in a councelor to console the survivors? No way! At best, he would have sent in Scotty with some scotch!)

      Of course, by extrapolation, life on the earliest starships would have been far cheaper still. One would expect "ensign resupply busses" to be dispatched regularly to catch up with the Enterprise and replenish its staff. I mean, from technical problems alone, I would imagine a few people might die each month. The first Enterprise was not designed to take hits from most of the weapons fired on it, so naturally it would not have been as mature in terms of safety as the later models... which means, more people would have died in comparatively minor situations. The survivors would surely have the attitude: Hey, that's just what space is like.

      So I'm asking you: Why are ensign deaths so damn rare on the first Enterprise? Is this a big coverup? Are we really seeing "Enterprise propaganda?" Surely, a reasonable person cannot believe that all these interstellar freshmen really live through all those encounters with hostile and technologically superior races, riding on a ship that was designed by engineers who were merely guessing at what starships should be like, having no experience to base their designs on. I mean, come on, anybody gets on that thing is basically does so with the understanding that they will die there, probably sooner rather than later.

      So goddamn it, die already! Then build a new ship, and get a better crew (except keep Phlox, he's cool).

  • Boy I love when Star Trek is a topic... (Score:5, Funny)

    by NanoGator ( 522640 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @06:48PM (#4108417) Homepage Journal
    ... I can never get enough of these comments:

    - The writers can't keep track of 10 movies and 24 seasons of episodes! Why can't they dedicate their lives to memorizing the Star Trek timeline like I have?

    - STTNG was the only good series, the rest were crap. I can't believe they'd keep this show going even though the ratings were so good!

    - Enterprise sucks! It offends me so deeply I want to tear my eyes out! I just can't get over there being a scifi show I don't like.

    - I don't like this show, so nobody should.

    I like to read these comments, then sit back and imagine what Galaxy Quest 2 will be like.
    • I like to read these comments, then sit back and imagine what Galaxy Quest 2 will be like.

      Likely the subline for the first Enterprise based movie. . . .

      Enterprise: Galaxy Quest Part Deuce!
    • "- The writers can't keep track of 10 movies and 24 seasons of episodes! Why can't they dedicate their lives to memorizing the Star Trek timeline like I have?"

      Heh I found that one amusing. I know people like that. Here's what bugs me: Enterprise has a wonderful opportunity to explore some of the events that were alluded to in the other series. Not only that, but we get it from the perspective of people fresh into deep space. This is really exciting, but these stupid 'purists' think that the show is better if they adhere to it literally. Do that, and you lose your opportunity. Some flexibility should be allowed.

      It's a TV show! It's ENTERTAINMENT! Enjoy it, don't sit there and act like you could make it better because you remember details that were only intended to pad out the drama.

      If you want rationalization for the 'inconsistencies', consider this: The 1701-E Enterprise influenced with Cochrane's life. The biggest hint of that was the naming of the NX-01 to Enterprise. Imagine it that way, quit griping, and enjoy the show!

      Nobody wants to witness a Milhouse Vs. Screech debate.
      • >Here's what bugs me: Enterprise has a wonderful
        >opportunity to explore some of the events that
        >were alluded to in the other series. Not only
        >that, but we get it from the perspective of
        >people fresh into deep space. This is really
        >exciting, but these stupid 'purists' think that
        >the show is better if they adhere to it
        >literally.

        Those stupid purists being Berman and company?

        >It's a TV show!

        That doesn't mean it has to be stupid.

        > It's ENTERTAINMENT!

        That doesn't mean it has to be stupid.

        >Enjoy it,

        Enjoyment is what you enjoy, and some people can't enjoy what they find stupid.

        >... don't sit there and act like you could make it better ...

        You don't know that they couldn't. Infact these days it seems it wouldn't be that hard.

        >...because you remember details that were only
        >intended to pad out the drama.

        You don't know what those details were for. And Michael Okuda sneaked in a lot of those details on TNG, that didn't hurt or harm anyone and arguably improved on the flavour.

        Just because you are content to settle for less, don't vilify those who want more.
    • Why can't they dedicate their lives to memorizing the Star Trek timeline like I have?

      Because they're getting paid to make Star Trek a significant portion of their lives, personally I expect them to be able to match the knowledge of the majority of Star Trek fans. Or at the very least to do a google search on occasion if they're unsure of anything. Contradicting something in another series or episode is fine if they make an active choice betwean entertainment value and continuency, but it's unprofessional if the break is done simply from ignorance. My watching of the franchise has been disjointed enough that I doubt I'd catch a mistake if it was made, but if I had a job related to the continuation of it you better believe I'd do my homework catching up.
      • "...but if I had a job related to the continuation of it you better believe I'd do my homework."

        I got news for ya: You'd definitely make mistakes. Let's do a little math:

        4 series. TOS had 3 seasons (I think), TNG had 7, DS9 had 7, Voy had 7. There were 10 movies, 6 of which based on the TOS crew, the other 4 were based on the TNG crew (with one approaching rapidly.) I think the number of episodes per season was in the 22-27 range depending on the series, so let's pretend there's 23 eps per season just for giggles. 7 * 3 + 3 = 24. 24 * 23 = approximately 552 episodes to watch.

        Sorry, you're human mind isn't capable of doing that error free. This isn't a 'homework' scenario, it's a PHD.
        • Sorry, you're human mind isn't capable of doing that error free. This isn't a 'homework' scenario, it's a PHD.

          Respectfully disagree, 552 episodes is not that many, especially when you cut out all the ones that deal solely interpersonal issues between characters. There are books about major events in the timeline and it is the screwing with major events that pisses ordinary fans off. Glossing over some obscure event from an earlier series is fine if it will greatly enhance the current one.

          The Ferengi episode is a great example, it added nothing the story of Enterprise but took too much licence with the timeline (they recorded the Ferengi on security cameras for gods sake). The episode on it's own was quite good but but even my girlfreind (only a casual fan) found the blantant timeline flouting annoying.

          I have been enjoying Enterprise, far more than I thought I would but if they need to resort to screwing with the established universe in first season I have my doubts about it's staying power.
        • Sorry, you're human mind isn't capable of doing that error free. This isn't a 'homework' scenario, it's a PHD.

          You take a sheet of paper and draw a flowchart/timeline on it. It seems to work for Lucas...
    • GalaxyQuest is to Star Trek, as Star Trek is to everyone else.
    • Or as the crusty fat lumpy one said in an ancient Saturday Night Live sketch:

      "Get a life!"

  • Inconsistency (Score:4, Insightful)

    by DarkHelmet ( 120004 ) <(ten.elcychtneves) (ta) (kram)> on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @06:49PM (#4108421) Homepage
    I really do love Enterprise, but it just makes things difficult when Star Trek has to write over itself to try and pretend that it's really our future yet to come.

    The Enterprise on the show was never featured in Star Trek 1 as "One of the ships that had the name Enterprise"

    There's an episode with the Ferengi in Enterprise. They hardly knew anything about the Ferengi on the first season of "The Next Generation". One of the ferengi (I believe played by Armin Shimmerman at the time) comments on how ugly the humans really are. Yet one of the Ferengi seem to obsess over a Vulcan.

    This show has equipment far more elaborate than the original series. The consoles on the original show were dials and knobs.

    Whatever happened to the Eugenics War [startrek.com] of the 1990's? The one where Khan ruled 1/4 of the Earth, and ends up being ejected into space.

    And my personal favorite, The Royale [startrek.com] from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved. Yes, Star Trek could be in a universe where Fermat's Last Theorem is unsolved, but then in Star Trek DS9, Dax was commenting on how she created another proof for it.

    When I think of Star Trek, I always think of it as being in an alternate future, kind of like Command And Conquer: Red Alert where World War 2 never happened. Just I wish they'd keep things straight, and everything in the same universe. :)

    Then again, maybe Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Original and Star Trek: Enterprise belong in different Quantum Realities [startrek.com] :)

    For their sake, I hope black holes [slashdot.org] do exist. It would suck if they had to go over all of the TNG/DS9 episodes and dub the word "Black Hole" with "Gravastar".

    • Re:Inconsistency (Score:5, Funny)

      by Tackhead ( 54550 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @07:03PM (#4108493)
      > Whatever happened to the Eugenics War [startrek.com] of the 1990's? The one where Khan ruled 1/4 of the Earth, and ends up being ejected into space.
      >
      > And my personal favorite, The Royale [startrek.com] from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved.

      Hmph. Obviously, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem derived by human/machine symbiotes in the late 20th century was... umm, one of humanity's treasures that was lost during the carnage of the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s!

      The fact that the historical record lists the Eugenics Wars as being in the "1990s" was just an error in the historical record, arising from the Great UNIX Date Catastrophe of 2038. (Notice how the Star Trek universe never mentions the Great UNIX Date Catastrophe of 2038? It's because it happened, and all the dates got screwed up, and as a result there's no historical reference to it!)

      Beam me up, Paramount, there are no scriptwriters here. ("Dammit, Jim, I'm a Slashdotter, not a scriptwriter!")

      • Beam me up, Paramount, there are no scriptwriters here. ("Dammit, Jim, I'm a Slashdotter, not a scriptwriter!")


        But I thought slashdot was just chock full of script kiddies.

    • For their sake, I hope black holes [slashdot.org] do exist. It would suck if they had to go over all of the TNG/DS9 episodes and dub the word "Black Hole" with "Gravastar".

      sounds like a job for George Lucas.
    • This show has equipment far more elaborate than the original series. The consoles on the original show were dials and knobs.

      So, you're saying that because a ST series set in the 23rd century that was based on 20th century technology, 20th century technology should take presidence over 21st century technology to create the setting of a 22nd century ST series?

      (All jest aside, I do think that the creators of the ship could have included at least a little more technology into the Enterprise...for example, why do the crewmembers need to push buttons to open doors? I mean, automatic door openers are a product of the 20th century...)

      • Re:Inconsistency (Score:5, Funny)

        by Latent IT ( 121513 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @09:47PM (#4109202)
        Yeah, but maybe you don't want them opening all the time... who knows what might happen? Maybe the TNG Enterprise had advanced AI to determine if the crewmember was actually trying to walk into the room blocked by the door, or just walking down the hall. On a starship, you don't want doors that open willy-nilly, like every time I walk past CVS on my way to the bank.

        God, what the hell am I saying?!? You know, I don't think geeks watch Star Trek. I think Star Trek makes geeks.
    • Whatever happened to the Eugenics War of the 1990's? The one where Khan ruled 1/4 of the Earth, and ends up being ejected into space.

      Yeah I hear ya... I was disappointed when 1997 came and went and they didn't turn New York into a maximum security prison... [imdb.com]

    • Re:Inconsistency (Score:4, Informative)

      by jandrese ( 485 ) <kensama@vt.edu> on Wednesday August 21, 2002 @08:34AM (#4110948) Homepage Journal
      Think of it this way. There is a temporal cold war going on. There is quite a bit of subterfuge on both sides and no doubt plenty of assassination attempts on key figures thoughout history. Minor timeline inconsistancies are merely the work of time terrorists.

      Plus, there is a good chance that the Computer on the Enterprise will be damaged in a future episode before they get a chance to get back to Earth. Star Fleet computers seem to be very susceptable to this sort of tampering, as every third alien speices they encounter seems to be able to figure out the root password (which is apparently "password"). If the records were lost then it would account for the scarce anecdotal evidence the NCC-1701D crew had on the Ferengi when they first met them. Lord knows that nobody in Star Fleet has ever kept a backup.
  • Each series of Star Trek has one. On NG it was Troi. On DS9 it was Kira. On Voyager it was Neelix. And on Enterprise it's Phlox. He should take some of his own medicine and get himself killed in an upcoming episode.

  • Why I gave up on Enterprise ... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by SimplyCosmic ( 15296 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @06:53PM (#4108444) Homepage
    Although I was skeptical, Enterprise didn't start out as badly as I would have expected.

    It was different enough of a show that I continued to watch, at least up until the episode entitled "Dear Doctor [startrek.com]", in which the ship's doctor got morally fixated on the wrong problem and convinced the Captain to ignore the tens of thousands that were dying every day, along with the strong possibility that the entire race would soon follow.

    My reaction was along the lines of: "Wait, so this race can't fly through space faster than warp one, and therefore you're going to knowingly kill them off? Fsck you, Federation!"

    Since that episode I gave up on the series for falling into the sad attempts at ignoring a good plot in an attempt to "present a moral lesson".
  • Can someone please copy it into a message? Stupid tech-hostile site. About as usable as a spacecraft that's always "right side up" in space.

  • prime directive (Score:2, Insightful)

    by mad_cow ( 152516 )


    If I remember the episode, part of the problem was also that the race that was going extinct was inhibiting the planet's second race from growing. My recollection is probably off a bit, but I think that the choice was more along the lines of giving the dying race what it needed to survive versus letting evolution elevate the less-advanced race to dominant species. It's kind of like (though off by a ways) if you were given a choice to save the dinosaurs who were going to be eradicated by some meteor-induced ice-age, would you do it, given that it might destroy the natural progression of life on the planet? Kind of a crappy analogy, but it's the best I can think of at the moment.



    In any event, I actually really enjoyed that episode. In my mind, at least, the Doctor's dilemma was a lot more profound than you make it sound. Without the prime directive as a guiding principle, there's a lot more room for this series to be interesting.

  • The technical solutions of Star Trek (Score:5, Funny)

    by OzRoy ( 602691 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @07:07PM (#4108516)
    I must admit I haven't watched Enterprise. But the thing that always struck me about almost all star trek episodes (except the original series) is the way they always get out of trouble. Solution number 1: "Pass the tachyon beam through the deflector array" Solution number 2: "Reverse the polarity of the nuetron flow" And it is guaranteed to work.

  • BoreTrek, The previous generation (Score:4, Insightful)

    by l0ungeb0y ( 442022 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @07:22PM (#4108599) Homepage Journal
    Sorry, but the only thing that got me to watch Enterprise was uber babe Jolene Blalock.

    StarTrek has degrading from swashbuckling action to moral pontification in space, no more "Let's get our shirts ripped, blow away the bad guys and get the greenskinned girl back to our quarters."

    Now it's, "who are we to act like gods in space? ...To fire the proton torpedoes or not, that is the question Captain"

    To be fair, the series premiere and finale were good, I really enjoyed. But, all the episodes in between were old hat and just plain boring.

    What I'd like to see? Mission Impossible StarTrek style, ditch the ship and whip out all the cool gadgets to spy on bad guys and make big explosions with! Seriously though, a StarTrek focused on a few StarFleet secret agents with the latest in badass sci-fi tech going out on commando missions would definitely be worth watching and add some new blood into the aging ratings vehicle.

    UPN dudes -- You reading this?

  • wishes the series would kill more people off like the original Star Trek

    Maybe they should introduce the colored uniforms so we could have redshirt ensigns.

    • One of my leading questions is.. i can deal with the technology differences.. but how are they going to segue into using those god-awful tunic's as the unforms?

      There must be a retro-look from hell... the 1960's will be in style again.. in 2250!

      • After I posted that, I thought about that too. The original series was definitely... dayglo. So, maybe they could have some kind of contest as a subplot, and the 60s uniforms could lose in favor of oh... colored collars, insignia, or armbands which would fit in better with the aesthetics of the rest of the show. Then, somebody could remark that the rejected suggestion was "ahead of it's time, and really should have won".

    • Re:Killing People (Score:3, Informative)

      by Kredal ( 566494 )
      check out the pinstriping on the Enterprise uniforms.. they have the colors that represent different sections.

      Red is engineering and security
      Gold is command
      Blue is science and medical

  • Oh, this is good! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Pollux ( 102520 ) <speter@tedat a . n e t . eg> on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @07:26PM (#4108612) Journal
    He also talks about the character of Doctor Phlox possibly falling into the 'Neelix Trap' and says he wishes the series would kill more people off like the original Star Trek!

    I can see it now...Star Trek: Enterprise, Season Two:

    Star Trek meets South Park!

    Captain Archer: "Oh my God! They killed Dr. Phlox!" "You Bastards!"

    Ensign Mayweather: "But he's the most popular person on the Enterprise! How will we ever replace him?"

    Commander Tucker: "No need to worry captain! We have a copy of his atomic signature in the cache of the data resequencer in the transporter! We'll be able to generate an exact copy of him, as if he never left!"

    --- BZZZ BZZZ ZIP! ---

    Dr. Phlox: "Hello, captain! I'm back from helping out the Balaxians on Balax 7! I hope nothing happened while I was gone!"

  • My take on Enterprise... (Score:3, Redundant)

    by Raleel ( 30913 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @07:29PM (#4108627)
    When I heard who was gonna be in it, I said two things

    1) Scott Bakula will make a crappy captain. He's way too soft
    2) I like the keep my porn and my star trek separate, thank you.

    Sure enough, I was right. Scott Bakula is not a very good captain, in my opinion. He's getting better, but really, he's pretty soft. Too happy.

    As for T'pol, yes, she's hot, but she's been doing an ok job of not making a big sex symbol out of herself. Save for the obligatory near sex scene in the decontamination chamber.

    What's really getting me the most the the _grotesque_ opening theme. Good lord. That may be the worst crap I've ever heard.

  • More Bikinis! (Score:4, Funny)

    by simetra ( 155655 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @07:54PM (#4108723) Homepage Journal
    Who cares about all that crap. I just want to see the large-breasted vulcan chick in a bikini. How hard would that be to work into the storyline?
  • Star Trek Enterprise
    Yet another series by
    Berman and Braga.

  • $0.205 (Score:3, Insightful)

    by AnalogBoy ( 51094 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @08:56PM (#4108972) Journal
    Star Trek in the Roddenberry era was all about humanity. The ship was just a vehicle. Nowadays, its gotten pretty formulaic. Most of the Q Episodes after the first two were always good for a bit of lite philisophical entertainment, but damn near everything else was.. egh.

    Roddenberry is doing a friction-free 200000RPM around in his..err, space-urn.

    (Unless it's de-orbited already.)

  • I'm seriously excited for the next season of Enterprise.


    Yeah, me too... Who wants to bet that they'll figure out a way to sneak the decontamination chainber in again?

    Seriously though, I'm surprised the censors didn't (well...) censor that. It's not cable, they do have serious limitations on what they are allowed to show.

    Enterprise? Just a sad attempt to take a SciFi show and turn it into '90210'.
  • Romulans? Who were never seen before "Balance of Terror," which took place in Kirk's era? Who aren't due to show up in Enterprise for another few years, if they wanted to stick to the old Earth-Romulan wars?

    I can see a bunch of Trekkers getting up in protest, breathing heavily, and promptly sitting back down.

    [CBG] There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling![/CBG]

  • Series needs 50cc of creativity, STAT. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Mulletproof ( 513805 ) on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @11:43PM (#4109547) Homepage Journal
    "...and says he wishes the series would kill more people off like the original Star Trek"

    HEAR, HEAR!! I've become a hardened cynic when it comes to Trek lately. It's been way too sanitised and this new series is no exception. If there was one series that could have benifited from a darker, more brooding plot, this is the one. I had originally envisioned Enterprise taking it's cues from America's blue water Navy during the American Revolution-- The Federation just stepping out onto the Frontier; Outgunned and woefully behind the technology curve, struggling to maintain soveignty amoung the stars. But what do we get? The bumbling crew of the first Enterpise that miraculously stumbles from one encounter to the next against vastly superior opponents and still manages to emerge in one piece. And to top that, they're already leaning on Trek's infamous temporal crutch, that way overused script idea. John is right-- This series needs to loose a few people as well as some major plot CPR. Sure, the Rombulans are coming (is it just me or is the Okuda time line just a bit out of sorts here?), but the way things are going now, it's going to be yet another ho-hum experience...

    Finally, it's not entirely a haters club here. While I doubt the the person responsible will ever see this, major props to whomever designed the opening credits. I've heard complaints all day long here, but the opening is wonderfully poetic. Stylish. The sole spark of creativity in an otherwise bland series.

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