Star Trek is a series about boldy going where no man has gone before. Seeking out new life and new civilizations. It explores stereotypes, issues, and character interactions. It has humor and silliness.
Enterprise started with that same premise. How do you trust an unemotional Vulcan plant? How does Trip to adapt be able to enter an alien ship? How unprepared are they when an alien takes core samples and another ship has to rescue them?
The theme song is our only guide to their vision - It’s been a long time, gettin’ from there to here. It’s been a long time, but my time is finally here. I do choke up a little hearing it. I know it’s silly. But it reminds me of how angry I was at not having someone to love. But I confronted that with some help, and had some faith of my heart. I now have a wonderful wife, 2 kids, and a zygote on the way.
I wonder what the vision is from B&B for Enterprise? It started off as Exploration but now I don’t know where they’re going and wonder if they do? NCB, I think that’s the main problem with hijacking an arc - how do they know where to return? What story do they really want to tell?
They’ve established good characters but need to explore them. Archer needs to find his White Whale and shoot it down or turn away. T’Pol needs some Kohlinar. She needs to be a foil like McCoy and Spock were to Kirk. Maybe Trip’s not doing the neuro-pressure right and it’s blocking off some blood pressure to the brain. They need to explore Reed’s control issues. They need to explore Hoshi’s feelings of inadequacy. Mayweather is the eager puppy type that probably needs to learn the hard part of command and responsibility by having someone die under his command. Phlox needs to have some wind removed from his sails and have someone die because of his incompetance. Everyone’s problems seem to be outside themselves - Trellium-D made T’Pol nuts, the MACO’s getting in Reed’s way, Earth attacked so Archer is okay to be morose. They need to mature as characters and the only way is to face problems that are of their chosing and fault and responsibility so that overcoming them makes them grow.
Unless the characters face themselves or issues, the episodes will just drift apart and we’ll say, “Hey, that’s cute,” but we won’t really care, and we’ll talk about how the technology doesn’t match the Technical Manuals.
Scotty, “Auch, whattya doin’ mon?” “Ahh, you set off a flare” and he smiles broadly. Spock, “There’s no chance”. Scotty, “Maybe, maybe not, but it’s a good try.” Spock, “It isn’t logical.” Scotty, “But it’s human.” {Very, very warply recalled} The scene came to mind just beacuse B&B can try this road and hopefully pull it out of its dive (or have calculatedly done this) and recover. I’ve still got “Faith…”
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