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ST:ENT FINALE THOUGHTS

Okay. Since its been a day now I feel like my thoughts have solidified enough to comment.

The real Star Trek ENT finale was episode Terra Prime.

Like. That's the finale.

These are the voyages... is cute! Don't get me wrong! I liked it. But... its not a finale. Its a tack on. Its last minute as hell. Its low-key dumb as fuck.

Again. It's cute. I DID like it. But it served no real purpose. Tying into an episode of TNG that didn't need a tie-in.

Killing Trip serves no narrative purpose. Its not like we don't understand death, loss, and the randomness and unfairness of it.

Hello... /gestures to where Florida was/ a lotta people died over the course of these four seasons.

It honestly felt like someone's last-minute demand. Like uh-oh cant let him live cause then we'll get alien hybrids or interspecies romance... or something equally stupid. And yes, I have read about some of their plans if they hadn't been canceled. And maybe I could have accepted him dying in season 5. But as it was. Since there were going to be no other seasons, it was pointless.

It was the single dud of the entire season. (Again, I LIKED IT!) It should have been a mid-season bottle episode - excluding Trips' death. Or a "special" that's out of continuity to give the audience a moment to breathe from an otherwise balls-to-the-wall season.

I don't blame Lower Decks for retroactively giving us Tripol. They knew we fucking deserved it. Even if they had to say it was an alternate universe.

I choose to believe it was our prime universe. Fuck it.

#Owen rambles #Owen rants #Star Trek Enterprise #Star Trek ENT #ENT finale #Terra Firma #These are the voyages...#Lower Decks #and this is coming from a guy who is never mad to see Riker

This grand finale is a love letter to the fans!

Of TNG.

Sorry, didn't we specify that? Did you think it was a love letter to the fans of the series that this is actually the grand finale of? Wowza, this series has fans? Cringe!

Anyways, this grand finale goes out to all of the fans who have spent the last several years enduring this cringe series through gritted teeth, wishing they could be watching TNG...

#the fact that this happened twice #star trek #star trek enterprise #star trek picard #these are the voyages...#the last generation #star trek the next generation

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Ash’s Star Trek Enterprise Rewatch:

4x22 These Are The Voyages...

First aired: 14 May 2005

Synopsis: Riker and Troi look back to the time when the first steps towards building the Federation were taken

Ash’s rating: 3/7

#i know it's been week since I should have posted that but I only now am in the headspace to do this #anyways I finished enterprise and I'm very happy about it #i don't know if i will watch it again #although i will miss t'pol #and phlox #and porthos #ash's complete Star Trek Rewatch #star trek enterprise #star trek #enterprise #st enterprise #st ent #ent #4x22 #these are the voyages...#4x22 these are the voyages...#t'pol #vulcans

I have determined that there are five good/salvageable things from Enterprise's finale "These Are the Voyages..."

1. The title. It's a great title for the finale of a Trek show, and works particularly well given the situation at the time (end of Enterprise with nothing new on the horizon, quite possibly end of the franchise). Pity it had to be attached to what we got.

2. The minor uniform changes. Epaulettes are practical, and the name tags make sense and tie back to NASA spacesuits, although by that argument it'd be better if they'd been there from the start, and I really don't think that red is the right color.

3. The idea of Riker (and potentially other future characters) using the holodeck for historical recreations. Lower Decks already had a bit of fun with this.

4. Trip's "There's just one other thing I need to tell you. You can all go straight to hell." line. The circumstances surrounding it and the outcome of it, no, but the line itself and the delivery is good.

5. The final sequence of the captains of the ships Enterprise saying those famous lines. I do enjoy it and it also helps make that franchise bookend. However, Archer should have said "where no one has gone before" instead of "where no man has gone before" (that should have been left as an artifact of the 1960's, not the pre-24th century). Also, it would probably be kinda tricky balancing it out, but it might have been interesting if they could have fit in various others captains of the ships Enterprise, although I understand only using the three iconic show leads.

Other than that; yeah, ditch it.

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