Re: Anyone ever watch Enterprise?

"Baff" <baff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <4854fc87$0$7358$607ed4bc@xxxxxx>,
"Hank Arnold (MVP)" <rasilon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Christian Hennecke wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:23:41 UTC, Bill <feline_ranger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried to watch Enterprise, but the show started to lose me when the
*pilot* had Vulcans losing their tempers and screaming at people. I
think I made through the first 5 or 6 episodes and gave up altogether.

Well... the pilot's "creaming each other with desinfectant" scene had
me
thinking, "They've gotta be kidding!"

I was immediately put off by the fact that the so-called ancestor of the
Enterprise on the original series continually had technology that far
exceeded what Kirk & Co. had to work with.....

I agree with what you are saying, but to be fair, WE have technology
that far exceeds what Kirk & Co. had to work with.


Indeed. To pull off a prequel to the point of making it not appear jarring
against what had gone before they would have had to make the show look less
impressive than what they used in the 1960's. A vain attempt was
made....wearing boiler suits etc, a left over of the NASA days from the look
of that, but if they had took it to the point of using little coloured
flashing lights similar to Kirk's ship - while it would have brought us fans
more on board - it would have had no chance of appealing to a new audience
and wouldn't have got past the pilot stage IMO.

I mean they tried here and there....making a point of being in the early
stages of transporter technology etc, but in the beginning it often left me
thinking things looked in advance of Kirk's era. Once I'd been following it
a while, though, I never gave it a second thought.
--
Slitheen.
"I've searched the phrase 'I shall walk the Earth and my hunger shall know
no bounds', but I keep getting redirected to Weight Watchers!"
Ianto Jones, Torchwood.





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