Star Trek timeline?
By Rysonia
@Rysonia (310)
United States
May 26, 2010 11:35pm CST
One thing I noticed when I started watching Star Trek Enterprise was how the official Star Trek time line appeared to have been just thrown out the window. It was like the writers just stopped caring about keeping everything in order or they simply hired writers for that series who had never watched the other Series. How did everyone else manage to work Enterprise into their ST enjoyment? Personally for me I pretended it was an alternate time line.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
27 May 10
It's funny, I totally expected that, a la typical Star Trek fashion, the original timeline would be set to right. But when it wasn't, I just chalked it up to typical Hollywood stupidity.
@Rysonia (310)
• United States
27 May 10
Yeah, it was like all the writers brains had gone out to lunch. I actually considered writing out a time line at one point and mailing it to the studio. I got a little concerned they might consider my pointing out logic to them to be unbalanced and changed my mind though.
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@countchocula77 (64)
• United States
3 Jul 10
Star Trek Enterprise was soooooo bad, I never watched it after the first few episodes and realized what you said, the writers just scribbled onto paper what ever they felt like in total disregard for the show's history. How stupid can Branon Braga be to hire writers who have never watched Star Trek??? that's like hiring a plumber to fix an electrical problem!
The ship's weapons resembled Voyager's, Dr.Flox was like a poor man's Nelix and the Suliban (comes from Taliban) never worked for me, the theme song and historical type pictures in the beginning credits were cool though.
The best thing for Star Trek would be if Shatner and Nimoy could team up and create a new show or better still? let the FANS show these hollywood fat cats how it's done!
@countchocula77 (64)
• United States
8 Aug 10
That's neat that you used your imagination to make the show better for you! For me it was unwatchable because of the dramatic departure from Star Trek's history and make up (no pun intended).
Look at other examples of remakes like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Johnny Depp. Yikes!! I wouldn't watch that monstrosity if you paid me! oh, it's different alright! the original, looked normal and was led by Gene Wilder who was funny not freaky! how about the "Dukes of Hazzard" disaster, I mean movie? just take a t.v script and mangle it why don't we? remakes should be made to highlight the best from the previous version not trample all over it! hopefully the next group of writers will be sensible enough to know that a slight tweaking is all a remake should endure. I think fans like Star Trek for what it was, not the mockery it's become.
@blueboy3 (123)
• Ireland
7 Aug 10
I was disappointed with it. It seemed to lack focus. Also, it had a great opportunity to fill in the pre-history, show us where elements of ST came from, but it was much too slow. For example, there was what seemed the endless fear of using the 'new' transporter technology - it just never developed. The episode where Malcom comes up with 'red alert' was sooo laboured. Actually, I have been watching reruns, and when it is all run together in a short time frame its not so bad. But, week by week its just too slow. (Contrast the new Star Trek movie, wow, that was impressive.)
I guess part of the problem is that TV series have moved on so much. The best are now pretty slick and sophisticated. Star Trek, if a series ever returns, needs to move beyond its traditional format. (I thought that DSN achieved that in its later Dominion-centred episodes. But even, then, there were too episodes that were like fillers.)
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
12 Jul 10
It's written in the beginning, the Star Trek Original Serie and Star Trek The New Generation is written by Gene Rodenberry and he is the one who really made that Star Trek world, now Voyager, Deep Space Nine and Enterprise...it's really just good to we fans to have something as we miss it so much...but it's really not the same. I don't think it will ever be.
For me a glorious moment was Piccard meeting Kirk, that was amazing. But it was in a movie.
Now the Spock/Kirk times was awsome. And Piccard and the whole new crew handled the job preatty well too.
