Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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UnKillShredDur said:
Tell that to the Valakians...
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That was a horrible episode, and I can't understand the praise it received except maybe critics are nihilistic weirdos who yearn for death to release them from their sad, gay lives.

So the Enterprise finds a planet where people are dying of some kind of genetic disease, and decide "let evolution take its course, lol" and fly off, leaving them to watch their families die as they go extinct.

Till next week's exciting genocidal adventures, friends!

I GOT FAAAAIIITTHHH OF THE HEEEEAAARRTTT

Apparently this is "morally complex" and some other bullshit. Except it isn't, at all. We're told 12 million of them died in one year before the Enterprise arrived. They're an intelligent, sentient, civilized species that's capable of spaceflight, no doubt with a rich and unique cultural yadda yadda. And they're begging for help, which the Enterprise could easily supply.

The script tries to justify it by accusing the Valakians of a mild form of space racism, and has Phlox claiming they're an "evolutionary dead end". But I don't think that's even a scientific hypothesis. Evolution isn't a predetermined tech tree in a PC game, the only dead end they're facing is that they have an easily curable genetic disease that Phlox refuses to give them. Phlox thinks the less advanced species on the planet will flourish if the other guys all die. Well, how does he know? They could end up killing each other, or turn into space nazis, or any number of things.

It's like if they had a show where some African village is dying of drought and the "heroes" decide not to give them any water because "evolution, lol".

The same people who praised this sociopathic shitshow probably lose their minds at pandas going extinct because they don't feel like fucking, and thought Picard's decision not to permanently get rid of the Borg (who were a kind of anti-civilization responsible for the death or mutilation and enslavement of billions) was some kind of heroic moral flex.
 
I'm replaying FF9, and this funny scene popped up tonight. It's bit obscure >.> though.... Maybe some of you won't get the reference...
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Emo Crow Fumikage said:
So, fellas, let me get some opinions. Should I give Enterprise a try? While I've heard people didn't like it, I've also heard that it's not really that bad and that one of its big problems was just that it started slow.
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It's pretty good takes awhile to be from meh damn good and then it ends overall not bad but it could of been better if they focused less on the action elements and time travel storyline from the first two seasons but it not bad and still feels like Star Trek unlike now with all the torture porn.
 
jennifermist said:
It depends on whether you can tolerate T'Pol. She's the backbone of those seasons. She's also the weakest member of the main cast, so that's a problem.
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T'Pol is basically what 7 of 9 could have been if the writing for 7 wasn't as good as it was.

It feels like T'Pol rarely rises above the level of eye candy. And sadly, she's set up as the eye candy, and I don't even think she's the hottest gal on the show (Hi Hoshi!)
 
RumblyTumbly said:
T'Pol is basically what 7 of 9 could have been if the writing for 7 wasn't as good as it was.

It feels like T'Pol rarely rises above the level of eye candy. And sadly, she's set up as the eye candy, and I don't even think she's the hottest gal on the show (Hi Hoshi!)
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Hoshi never did it for me. Now, mirror Hoshi on the other hand...
 
RumblyTumbly said:
It feels like T'Pol rarely rises above the level of eye candy. And sadly, she's set up as the eye candy, and I don't even think she's the hottest gal on the show
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T'Pol was a ratings stunt which backfired. She had a habit of striking fashion model poses. Also, her lips look like briefcase handles.

T'Pol is 'heroic' only in the sense that it is expected of her. She does little that genuinely surprises.
 
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The best thing that Enterprise ever did (which no other Trek ever did), was bringing Uncle Phil in to play a Klingon. And let's be honest, he was probably one of the most important Klingon guest characters... He was a major part of the explanation of the first (and only one I care about) Klingon retcon. Anything STD has said about Klingons after that is really stupid.
 
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