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The last snark
May. 16th, 2005 07:18 amThese Are The Voyages...
So, I watched the finale of Enterprise.
Long time readers of this journal will remember a time when I was actually watching this abortion of a show - I lasted through the first season and a little bit of the second, making fun of it most of the way until it simply was no longer even amusing to make fun of it anymore, and even Linda Park was not enough to keep me watching the chicken vomit that was spewing out from the pens of Berman and Braga (or Bermaga as we called them).
So when I heard Enterprise was nearing its end, I was not so much happy as simply relieved that fans of a franchise that I once loved (and to some extent still do) were showing a sense of taste and no longer supporting a travesty of bad fan fiction making worse television writing.
When I heard that the finale was going to feature Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, I frankly was not surprised at the stunt casting. Rumours abounded, from the idea that the whole four years was a holodeck hallucination (appealing but, as the equivalent of Bobby stepping out of the shower, eye-rollingly stupid) to time travel. Well, it turns out that Frakes and Sirtis show up as Riker and Troi, but in a B-story that takes place during the events of the 7th Season TNG episode, "The Pegasus". In that story, Riker has a crisis of conscience and for some reason he thinks that watching the last voyage of the NX-01 will help him.
( Spoilers behind the cut. Warning: contains strong language )
So, I watched the finale of Enterprise.
Long time readers of this journal will remember a time when I was actually watching this abortion of a show - I lasted through the first season and a little bit of the second, making fun of it most of the way until it simply was no longer even amusing to make fun of it anymore, and even Linda Park was not enough to keep me watching the chicken vomit that was spewing out from the pens of Berman and Braga (or Bermaga as we called them).
So when I heard Enterprise was nearing its end, I was not so much happy as simply relieved that fans of a franchise that I once loved (and to some extent still do) were showing a sense of taste and no longer supporting a travesty of bad fan fiction making worse television writing.
When I heard that the finale was going to feature Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, I frankly was not surprised at the stunt casting. Rumours abounded, from the idea that the whole four years was a holodeck hallucination (appealing but, as the equivalent of Bobby stepping out of the shower, eye-rollingly stupid) to time travel. Well, it turns out that Frakes and Sirtis show up as Riker and Troi, but in a B-story that takes place during the events of the 7th Season TNG episode, "The Pegasus". In that story, Riker has a crisis of conscience and for some reason he thinks that watching the last voyage of the NX-01 will help him.
( Spoilers behind the cut. Warning: contains strong language )
