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Enterprise Arc that should have been
Topic Started: Jun 23 2005, 01:33 AM (353 Views)
gdog243
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I've been watching a ton of Season 1 over the last 2 weeks (I didn't want to spam the board with reviews, but lets just say it's as good as I remember), and tonight I was watching some episodes that should have and could have been a much better arc than the stupid Xindi thing. These episodes were Detained, Desert Crossing, and one that I havn't seen yet but I know it's part of the same storyline, Two Days, Two Nights. What these episodes have in common is that they present an arc about the Tendarin internment camps for the non-kobal Suliban and the reprecussions of Archer's actions to take down Al's, I mean Grat's camp. Other than the little sledgehammer about the internment camps which I guessed about 10 minutes into the episode (Same complaint I made about the same episode a few years ago), this was a start of a very interesting arc.

I know some people didn't like the Temperal Cold War, but in the first season, I actually found it interesting and wish there was more dealing with it. I loved the stuff that we learned from Cold Front, and I loved the stuff we got from these other season one episodes about Suliban society and how the Kobal has alienated them. People complain that the war took to long and it was silly, but I wish we saw more episodes dealing with what this War was about.

Wouldn't have been cool instead of introducing a race full of cookie cutters with no reason to attack earth other than because the prophets, ah I mean thier gaurdians told them too. I mean we had so much meat already, and I wish more was added to make a true season arc and to wrap up the Temperal Cold War the right way. I havn't seen Storm Front yet, but I've heard it wasn't the right way to wrap it up.

So, would you have wanted to see more of the Tendarins and make that the season 3 arc? I guess the reason for the arc was to give the show direction, but just watching the first season (very bland, but still had potential with great episodes), the show did have some direction and that story would have been interesting. Just imagine what it would be like if Coto wrote it.
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I thought the point was to show that not all Suliban are eeeeeviillll.

Seriously, the Tendarins were something of a lost opportunity (Enterprise has a number of those). Here was a new species that could have been utilized in furthering the TCW (cringe, shudder) storyline by adding complexity to it. Although, I would not have made them particularly integral to the season 3 arc (then again that whole arc's sole purpose was supposedly going to fix the leaks that Enterprise had already sprung and instead it shut down the bilge pumps).
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gdog243
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Jun 23 2005, 08:06 PM
I thought the point was to show that not all Suliban are eeeeeviillll.

Seriously, the Tendarins were something of a lost opportunity (Enterprise has a number of those). Here was a new species that could have been utilized in furthering the TCW (cringe, shudder) storyline by adding complexity to it. Although, I would not have made them particularly integral to the season 3 arc (then again that whole arc's sole purpose was supposedly going to fix the leaks that Enterprise had already sprung and instead it shut down the bilge pumps).

That's my point. The fact that they weren't evil and Detained was left open ended, it could have tied into the TCW plot making it more interesting and better than it turned out to be and the whole Xindi storyline.
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File this under "We'll never know..."

This brings us right to the problem that was season 3. It seems clear to me that the whole point of the Xindi arc was a near complete change of direction because the producers could not figure out how to make the TCW work right and realized that they were losing viewers as a result. So they hamstrung it into the Xindi story nearly giving up completely on developing the Suliban.
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Has anyone seen the recent BBC doco/drama 'Space Odyssey' a 4 X 30 min series about a future manned mission to all the planest in the solar system.

While watching this I was gripped, and it struck me that a lot of season 1 ENT should have been done like this, visiting all the parts of our neck of the woods, seeing what happened to old earth spacecraft, decending to the surface of gas giants etc
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Dr. Noah
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C'mon proton you don't mean that. You were bored to tears with the exploring a comet episode.

I actually kind of liked the whole idea of the TCW. I really wish B&B had thought ahead as to what they wanted to do with it. Also, as mentioned before in the TOS board that B&B could've linked the TCW to Gary Seven and the Aegis. But that opportunity has been lost.
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I agree with Proton on this one, at the very least Ent should have had a missions to do, jobs to complete yet instead they spent most of season one and two wondering round like idiots. How many months (in the show) did it take them to get around to checking up on that destroyed colony. They should have been doing stuff like that from the begining. This is the first manned warp five mission there should be a list as long as the ship of places Earth wants them to go and visit and study. Yet nope they just wonder round a bit bumping into random aliens we'll never see again.
Even Voyager got missions, well a mission but I don't think there was much more Starfleet wanted of them at the time.
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I think it would have been cool to see Enterprise helping to set up the first Starbase.

It cold have had loads of recurring characters then.
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