I have been overall quite impressed with this season of Enterprise–especially this week’s episode that started the Vulcan arc. Not only did it set up an interesting story that will explain why the Enterprise era Vulcans have been so un-Vulcan-like, but it was obvious that the script was written by someone who understands Trek (and, indeed, it was written by Trek novelists Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens). The latter begs a question: why haven’t they employed more of the Trek novelists for all of these shows? (On that note I think that an adaptation of Peter David’s New Frontiers novels would make an excellent show).
The season hasn’t been perfect (the end of the Augments arc, for example, wasn’t very original–ditto the end of the space Nazi ep), but the show has more energy than in the previous two seasons and has actually felt like a show set in the pre-TOS universe (which is normally hasn’t). Rather, it has often felt like it existed in some alternative faux Trek universe.
The show still suffers from the lack of development of most of the characters. Still, it has been quite watchable this season. The Xindi storyline last season was an improvement over season one, but still lacked sufficient “Trekness” and the whole Temporal Cold War thing never worked for me.
Huh?
Comment by John Lemon — Sunday, November 21, 2025 @ 7:14 pm
TV sci-fi renaissance?
Is TV sci-fi back? PoliBlog’s Steven Taylor takes note of the recent improvements in Enterprise (or is it Star Trek: Enterprise?), Stargate Atlantis has had a fairly impressive first half-season, and I hear, since I wouldn’t want to go against…
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Yup.
Comment by Jay Solo — Sunday, November 21, 2025 @ 10:35 pm
The Brent Spiner trilogy was excellent as well. I’m glad to see that they’ve finally got a decent story arc underway. The character development still falls short of any of the Treks minus the dreaded Voyager, though.
Comment by James Joyner — Monday, November 22, 2025 @ 4:20 pm
Today’s Top Nine
Thank God the election is over and everything’s getting back to normal again! In fact, it’s gotten so much better in the last few days that I actually remembered
Trackback by Accidental Verbosity — Tuesday, November 23, 2025 @ 1:15 pm
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Example the fifth: Steven Taylor on Star Trek.
Example the sixth: The joy of fin […]
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