wow. i can't believe no one has posted about the "enterprise" finale yet.
spoiler if you have it tivoed:
considering they had to rush it in a little bit, it wasn't too bad. it takes place during "the next generation" episode where they are finding riker's first ship that was able to phase through solid objects. riker was sworn to secrecy over it and was trying to decide whether to tell picard the truth or not. troi suggests he use the holodeck and re-create the last mission of the original enterprise to help him make his decision. so really, all the "enterprise" characters are just holodeck creations.
now, i remember "the next generation" episode that this episode was taking place during and i don't remember riker having all that extra time to hang out in the holodeck. but that's really just a minor quibble. it ended with archer, ten years after the original launch of enterprise, addressing the newly formed federation of planets and riker making his decision to tell picard. he tells the holodeck computer to "end program" and he and troi walk out of the empty holodeck.
then they did something fun where they show riker and picard's enterprise flying through space with picard voiceover of "space. the final frontier. these are the voyages of the starship enterprise. it's continuing mission..." then as that enterprise flies past a meteor, it cuts to kirk's enterprise and kirk voiceover, "to explore strange, new worlds. to seek out new life and new civilizations." and finally cut to the archer enterprise and archer saying (with the bad grammar) "to boldly go where no one has gone before."
the show was much better this season. i actually watched it. i guess they never really figured out that it takes more than three seasons for a star trek series to hit its stride.
spoiler if you have it tivoed:
considering they had to rush it in a little bit, it wasn't too bad. it takes place during "the next generation" episode where they are finding riker's first ship that was able to phase through solid objects. riker was sworn to secrecy over it and was trying to decide whether to tell picard the truth or not. troi suggests he use the holodeck and re-create the last mission of the original enterprise to help him make his decision. so really, all the "enterprise" characters are just holodeck creations.
now, i remember "the next generation" episode that this episode was taking place during and i don't remember riker having all that extra time to hang out in the holodeck. but that's really just a minor quibble. it ended with archer, ten years after the original launch of enterprise, addressing the newly formed federation of planets and riker making his decision to tell picard. he tells the holodeck computer to "end program" and he and troi walk out of the empty holodeck.
then they did something fun where they show riker and picard's enterprise flying through space with picard voiceover of "space. the final frontier. these are the voyages of the starship enterprise. it's continuing mission..." then as that enterprise flies past a meteor, it cuts to kirk's enterprise and kirk voiceover, "to explore strange, new worlds. to seek out new life and new civilizations." and finally cut to the archer enterprise and archer saying (with the bad grammar) "to boldly go where no one has gone before."
the show was much better this season. i actually watched it. i guess they never really figured out that it takes more than three seasons for a star trek series to hit its stride.
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