Y'know how over the last couple of decades there's been a lot of sassifrage about hypertext creations? Well, I think Star Trek: Enterprise has achieved that state.
I'm 15 minutes into watching the second ep of the third season, and I'm sure you could shuffle the scenes and it would make the same amount of narrative sense.
Enterprise has always suffered from weak writing, but it seems to have achieved a state of dynamic equilibrium. Plus Vulcan boobies recapitulating the "Marina Sirtis Topless GIF Information Superhighway" with Jolene Blalock.
If UPN wanted to be really daring, they would do a deal with Apple where they would make individual clips available for iMovie, and hold a contest where the best mix would be the next week's broadcast. It wouldn't be worse than what they are doing now.
As an update on how weak the writing is, compare the airlock sequence in this episode with Firefly. In Enterprise, it is simply torture, which of course they don't go through with. In Firefly, the sequence is the result of betrayal and attempted murder, and you are doubtful about the outcome. Again weak writing from Enterprise.
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Article comments
1 - Taloran
Yeah, butit's Star Trek, so why would anyone expect decent writing, credible or coherent plots, or believability from it?
2 - Jim Carruthers
Tallywacker, or whatever your name is, the point is that Trek gets close to decent writing, ideas and acting and then just decides it's good enough to just put out crap. After all, they're buying it, ain't they?
Very frustrating. Like any experience, when you've had something better, it is really hard to go back to good enough.
3 - Taloran
Hmmm.... well, if that was the point, Jinky Rathers or whatever your name is, you might have mentioned that instead of saying "Enterprise has always suffered from weak writing" in your original post. From the beginning of each series, the Star Trek money machine has been frequently plagued by marginal imagination, wooden actors, and scripting from a can. The occasional episode in which the actors, script and plot are well enough realized to make the viewer suspend his/her disbelief are far outnumbered by wooden or over-the-top portrayals, lines that sound like they were penned by the Who's The Boss writers, and plot lines so poorly conceived that the viewer has to say "this could never happen. If man were this stupid he'd never have gotten to the moon."
4 - Jim Carruthers
The pirate speaks,"T'good ship Jinky Rathers and its crew strikes fear whereever it goes."
5 - Eric Olsen
"Buccaneers"
"Buccanhead"