One thing I love about Star Trek: The Motion Picture is that the characters talk up the risk of going to warp speed inside the solar system, and when they do and it turns out the engines haven’t been properly calibrated they fall into a wormhole and nearly destroy the ship. Compare with Star…
See, that was the thing that disappointed me most about Enterprise. I don’t think I ended up watching all of it, but the bits I did watch they would go “Oh, we’re going to do this technically complicated and risky thing” and lo, it would work.
And I’d go ‘oh’. And get very bored.
It did get much better later, but it was pretty awful in the beginning. The first season sucked, and the second was even worse.
Then they got their act together. While the third season was actually pretty good, the fourth was excellent. It was kind of sad that it was cancelled just after that.
Ach, maybe I should see if I can endure the first two to make it to 3 and 4. I must admit I’d never realised that it went on so long…
