Up, Down and All Around

Back on Track... errrr... Trek

I've been remiss lately with my blog updates, but there's a simple explanation.

All of my waking hours (and some of my should-be-sleeping-hours!) have lately been devoted to watching back-to-back episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 3.

My Raves:

• This is the best Star Trek: Enterprise season I've seen so far. Season 3 is a souped-up, trumped-up, revved-up version of Enterprise; a definite departure from the style and tone of the first two seasons.
• A must-see for time-travel afficionados. Season 3 is replete with time-travel scenarios and alternate-reality conundrums, but the writers managed to stop themselves from using time travel as a cop-out for sticky plot dead-ends.
• Favorite episodes. Twilight and Similitude rank way up there as my ultimate favorites for this season. Great stories, fantastic effects, and clever use of dramatic revelations make these two episodes utterly wonderful. E2 (E-squared) is a very close third on my list of favorites.
• The evolution of Trip and T'Pol's relationship. This is self-explanatory to anyone who has seen this Season, I think. Haha! It's no surprise to me that a quick search on the web yielded a large number of Trip-T'pol fansites. hehe!
  

My Rants:

• What in the world did they do to the theme song?! It was absolutely AWFUL the first time I heard it. Almost painful, almost sacrilegious! The wonderfully soulful tone of the original theme song was completely, utterly ruined by that new pop sound that they used in Season 3. Although the new version became more bearable from repetition, it was still a major adjustment.
• Too Many Stops and Starts in the Story Arc. There were too many stand-alone stories randomly inserted into the middle of a series of episodes that followed the main story arc. So just when we have built up a great deal of momentum over the course of three or four episodes, we suddenly go Pffffttt...
  
• Convenient reappearances by the Andorians. Twice in this season, the "blueskins" appear at the most convenient times to rescue Jonathan Archer. Once is acceptable. Twice is stretching it a bit.

Overall, a great romp! I'll probably be groggy most of this weekend because I'll have my eyes glued to Season 4. haha!

Tags: TV

Posted by CF at 11:30 PM