fajrdrako | Star Trek Enterprise... (Reply)

When I was at Sandi and Pat's place this evening, they showed me the latest episode of Star Trek Enterprise.

Now, I haven't watched this show since the first few episodes of first season. Once upon a time I was a fan of Star Trek and of K/S too, but that was long ago and sometimes I think the wench I was is dead. I loved Jean-Luc Picard and that kept me going for a long time with ST:TNG; I had a crush on Kira on DS9 and quite liked Bashir too, but got fed up with Bajoran religion and gave up on the show. The last gasp was a passing fondness for Commander Chakotay, the anarchist rebel, which died a quick death when he turned out to be boring enough to settle into Starfleet like a good little soldier.

But Sandi and Pat, who like Enterprise, remembered that I really like Mirror Universe stories and lured me into watching this one, "Through a Glass Darkly". All the better that it featured Tholians, since "The Tholian Web" was one of my favourite episodes of Old Trek. (In the top ten, anyway. The others - ? Um. "A Piece of the Action", "Amok Time", "City on the Edge of Forever", "Journey to Babel", "Mirror, Mirror", "Elaan of Troyius" - okay, maybe there aren't nine others I remember fondly.

So what did I think of Enterprise? Not much. Maybe if I knew the characters there would have been more impact, but this just seemed a dark version of the characters without much oomph. The women's uniforms had oomph, though. I liked that. The torture scenes put me off. I certainly didn't enjoy it the way I enjoyed the mirror universe stories in DS9, with Sisko a smart-mouthed pirate - ah, if only he'd been that way all the time! - and Kira a dangerous woman.