{"id":3,"date":"2005-05-14T19:49:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=3"},"modified":"2006-08-01T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T09:37:14","slug":"enterprise-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2005\/05\/enterprise-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Finale &#034;These Are The Voyages&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entryblock_text\">I enjoyed this episode and agree that it was a good end to the show. If anything, though, I felt a little cheated that the TNG characters had &#039;stolen&#039; the last episode of a four year saga from us \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I think I&#039;d have felt more comfortable if B&#038;B had let our heroes finish the story on their own without help!I wish they hadn&#039;t cut the big Archer speech scene short so quickly, although I understand why they did \u00e2\u20ac\u201d they couldn&#039;t hope to do that without it being an anticlimax and\/or going on too long. Still though, finishing off with Deanna\/Riker exiting the holodeck felt a bit sort of &#8230; &#034;and now we&#039;re going to steal four years of ENT from you.&#034;Also Deanna\/Riker looked ooooold! Before watching the episode, I guess I&#039;d assumed it&#039;d be Deanna\/Riker on the Titan in &#039;present day&#039; Trek \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which would have been very cool, as we haven&#039;t seen much new in &#039;present day&#039; Trek in years, apart from Nemesis, since Voyager ended and even then it was &#039;present day&#039; Delta Quadrant. So really since DS9 we haven&#039;t had any Alpha Quadrant breaking news. So to throwback to an old TNG episode was a little disappointing perhaps, but it was clever how they tied it into an established story (&#034;The Pegasus&#034;). Just a shame it wasn&#039;t a particularly pivotal story; not for me anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Trip&#039;s death: a heroic end indeed. But&#8230; taking care of a handful of common thugs? I think the finale should have been a two-parter to handle a character&#039;s death and the resulting emotional shockwaves properly, as all we really got was one sickbay scene and a couple of pseudo-tears from T&#039;Pol. Cut to millions of people cheering and clapping, the end. If it had been a two-parter, the backstory behind Shran, the artefact and perhaps a more involved demise for Trip could have been built up far more effectively; meanwhile I don&#039;t think a justification could be found for having the TNG cast kidnap two whole episodes.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this episode and agree that it was a good end to the show. If anything, though, I felt a little cheated that the TNG characters had &#039;stolen&#039; the last episode of a four year saga from us \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I think I&#039;d have felt more comfortable if B&#038;B had let our heroes finish the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}