clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 29, 2023

Enterprise was a brilliant concept, tying together our spacefaring history with Star Trek and imagining how a NASA-like space program plus warp on the way to Star Trek might look, and how the four founders of the Federation struggled and finally came together. It has brilliant actors, costumes and sets. Even the Xindi species were a cool concept.

And then they wasted three seasons on the awful awful Temporal Cold War, a big bundle of bad and incoherent ideas.

After a 20-year break I am now watching Season 4 and it is brilliant. It's everything I expected and felt robbed of when I first watched the series.

The song is great and fits well with the lo-fi, contemplative atmosphere and pacing.

#StarTrek #Enterprise
#StarTrekEnterprise #STENT
#EnterpriseS4

Show threadpenguin42Aug 29, 2023
@clacke Interesting, I'm not sure I ever watched S4; I have a feeling I gave up somewhere in the Temporal war thing and never came back, but I'm not sure I remember. I prefer episodic things rather than long running stories.
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 29, 2023

@penguin42 Yeah same, that's why the 20-year break.

There are arcs of 2–3 eps each in ENTS4, one Temporal (bleh), one Vulcan+Andorian (cool), one Tellarite+Andorian (cool), one Mirror (fun), but I believe the rest are single episodes. It's 22 episodes.

Fans say the last episode of the series sucks and ruins everything. I'm not at the end yet.

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

Ok, I've seen all of Enterprise Season 4 now.

I was wrong about single episodes, they're the exception. Most of S4 is made of 2–3 episode arcs.

I'm glad I watched it and I rank it higher than a lot of TOS and VOY.

Sep 1, 2023 at 4:26amWeb
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Sep 1, 2023

The last episode doesn't ruin everything, but it was a massive meh for a series final and had unnecessary downers. I did find it interesting and I don't recommend skipping it, but it could have been so much better.

The story telling was an interesting concept if it had been used for any other episode.

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Sep 1, 2023
My next thing to watch is TAS, I have never watched a single episode of it before. Brace for camp!