The Few, The Proud

[scarfman]

You know, I like Star Trek: Enterprise, I really do. Yet I have a real hard time pointing at any particular element of it and saying that that's what I like about it.

For instance, for each Star Trek series I've picked out a model episode, a high-quality example of what it does and does well and does better than the others. For the original, Doomsday Machine (actually that was my mother's suggestion). For TNG, Measure of a Man. For DS9, In The Pale Moonlight. Even for Voyager: One Small Step. For Enterprise ... uh ...

The closest I can come to is Future Tense, which (if I even remember the title correctly) Twilight which is the third-season story set twenty years on from the Xindi War. It's set during the only Star Trek season arc, it's time travel which Enterprise was all over (but that's a different topic), it highlights the ambiguous relationship between Archer and T'Pol, and - whoa! - everyone liked it.

Edited for episode title 12/20/05

Comments

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I saw Doomsday Machine on a Saturday morning the last time I was home. It wasn't among my favourites when I was a teenage Trekkie, but damn-- it really is good. I'm really starting to see this fabled Hornblower influence in Kirk and his harebrained save-the-day schemes.