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Cry Foul, and let slip the rage of fans

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[ This is my commentary on the Enterprise finale. Spoilers may ensue. ]

Finally watched the series finale of Enterprise.

Well. How was I ripped off by that? Let me count the ways!

okay, Shakespeare mode off.

I was only a casual viewer of the show, and I still felt horribly ripped off. I can guess how the die-hard fans feel.

Why couldn’t they have done that same story in “real-time”, instead of in flashback mode 200 years later with the Pegasus fluff built as its framework? It cheapens the finale, and to me, also cheapens what really happened in that TNG episode so many years ago.

We could have seen everyone preparing to say their farewells to each other as they moved on to new assignments; they could have actually shown a little more emotional impact at Trip’s death still reverberating through the crew as Archer prepares for the announcement and speech, and dammit, we’d get to hear at least some of this supposedly historical speech.

Correct me if I’m wrong, because I really didn’t follow this season as I had the first two, but didn’t they spend more time building up storylines and the “human drama” between characters? And they did all of that, set that course for the season, only to NOT explore that last bit of human drama in the final episode?

“To boldly cop out where few cop outs have gone before” wasn’t supposed to be the show’s final note. It’s not very supportive, and to me, it doesn’t respect the fans in any way, shape or form.

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  • Summer Brooks

    Summer Brooks enjoys putting her addiction to sci-fi & horror stories to good use in interviewing guests. She is a long-time podcaster, in several roles (co-host , host and producer) for Slice of SciFi since 2005, as co-host for The Babylon Podcast since 2006, and host of Writers, After Dark since 2018.

    She is an avid reader and writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and thrillers, with a handful of publishing credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing a graphic novel urban fantasy, and a B-movie creature feature.

    Summer also does story narrations for Tales to Terrify, StarShip Sofa, and Escape Pod, among others.

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  1. Not only does it not respect the fans, but it doesn’t respect the cast. To give the last scene of the last episode of the series to a couple of guest stars seems very insulting to me.

    The whole Trip thing felt extremely pasted on, like they got done and decided “There isn’t enough emotional impact…lets kill off a character.” The pacing of it was really strange and neither Archer nor Trip acted in character.

    I think I watched every episode of the show, and it had been getting better every year. It’s a damn shame it was cancelled, and that last episode was just salt in the wound, imo.