He is purposefully ignorant and just doesn’t care (when he’s learning to fly a Suliban vessel just says it can’t be too hard (he crashed a Federation Shuttle) and acts like it is easy when Mayweather is trying to teach him to pilot).
It’s like he hasn’t even been in space yet is expected to be an engineer of a space ship. Trip Tucker – Once again, how did this guy become an engineer? He crashes the shuttle in dry-dock into Enterprise and has no idea what is going on in the entire episode. fully embraced that rather than creating a well rounded character.
She was made to sexualize Vulcans (see the picture above). I don’t think that’s why she was created though. It isn’t logical to alienate your allies and that is exactly what she does…and she is supposed to be a diplomatic liaison. T’Pol – From going on her high horse towards those who eat meat, to saying humans are irrational and unready to travel…Braga missed the point of the Vulcans. Also he keeps putting Trip in charge of things just because Trip is his friend. It’s a shame there is on one on the ship who could replace him…this is a ship of imbeciles. “Voyager,” was average and way too focused on proving Janeway right, but it at least had SOME interesting character dynamics and characters.Ĭaptain Archer – Who thought it was a good idea to put this guy in charge? He doesn’t think things through, he condescends to those who don’t agree with him and is more prejudice against his Vulcan allies than Kirk ever was towards the Klingons. There aren’t any characters who are in the middle. The Characters: The characters are either inept and useless or condescending jerks. I expected tension but not hostility between allies, it missed the entire point of First Contact and Roddenberry’s bright future. “You felt emotion therefore you are a hypocrite and wrong,” basically…and Trip the Engineer is the same way (and same way on Ryjal judging every alien he comes in contact with). The humans aren’t much better and Archer is the worst. T’Pol the first officer and Vulcan liaison is condescending to every human she comes in contact with (“I was told English would only be spoken on the Bridge,” (to Hoshi the communications officer)) and countless other examples. The Special Effects – Like the later TNG films “Enterprise,” had a very sleek look and the best Special Effects since “Deep Space 9,” and later “Voyager,” this is one of the few things I have to give it, because the rest is just bad.Ĭons: The Human and Vulcan Relationship Dynamic – What the Hell was Brannon Braga thinking? He starts out with Archer calling the Ambassador pointy eared as an insult when he was a child…and we see later nothing has progressed since then. We even have a Klingon as the catalyst as he was attacked by a mysterious enemy known as the Suliban. Pros: The premise – Again the premise is exciting, the first military/exploration vessel from Starfleet going out to make contact with new life and new civilizations. Without further ado, I’ll get into the reasons why: This of course was assuming the writers knew what they were doing after the horrible “Voyager” finale and the later “Next Generation Films,” which if I had a lot less optimism would have brought me closer to how disappointed I would be. We end the “Star Trek Pilot Series,” with the worst of them all, “Star Trek: Enterprise.” When I first heard about “Enterprise,” back in High School I was excited…early human exploration and making contact…the Romulan War, the fallout of the Eugenics War…these stories that the “Original Series,” had suggested left so much potential for this prequel series.