A satisfactory final part to what has been a good mini-arc. Well acted and directed and the storyline continues the mission of this season to get towards the foundation of the federation (wether that is complete by the end of the season is another matter).

A slight suprise right at the end though.

When you watch episodes such as this and most of this season to be honest, it is hard to imagine why this series has been cancelled and why it has lost the popularity of the fans in america.

Perhaps it is not ENTERPRISE's fault perhaps it is what went before???

Honestly ken, where can I get one of those rose tinted visors from?

I had quite high hopes of this arc, but again it underdelivered. Although they are doing these mini-arcs in series four, they seem far two concerned that each ep is a standalone in itself. Part three of this arc was pretty much pointless. They had tied up all the loose ends at the end of part two, and then the romulans sent the drones back again? Seemed very unlikely as they spent most of ep 2 getting the drone home again.

Was nice to see some origin of the federation stuff though, and they did handle this fairly well. But why did they need 128 ships exactly? Why did travis come up with a plan that would have been practically impossible to implement.

And how come the romulans had ships that could travel from Romulus in a couple of days, could self repair, could destroy Federation and andorian ships that were much larger, and disguise itself as anything, and yet seems to have lost all that technology four hundred years later.

(I know we harp on about temporal mistakes all the time, but it was B+B's decision to set this series in this era, and we said they wouldn't be able to pull it off at the time).

As for the twist at the end, well I should credit them with leaving something unresolved, but, as is so often the case with trek, there is no dramatic tension at all. I have no doubt whatsoever that trip will still be on the enterprise at the end of the series.

No, its pretty much Enterprises fault. (although I suppose Voyager has to take some responsibility)

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I think it is more of a case as I am less critical than some and go into each episode on a high rather than wanting to find something negative before I start watching it.

(that dosent mean I am accusing you of doing that merely trying to explain my own feelings)

I thought this was the weakest episode of the arc but I enjoyed the arc on a whole as I have this season - very much so!!!

I hold my hands up to the fact that I have a downer on Enterprise, but only because they have worn out my patience. They made such good progress on Season 3, but now they've undone it all in season 4.

OK, just to prove I can, here are a list of good points about enterprise.....

1) Its much better than voyager
2) The cast is pretty decent. Not really a fan of Bakula, but I think the rest of them do well.
3) SFX are great
4) Series 3 was the best trek since DS9

:) :)

Oh dear.

Aside from having a problem keeping a straight face with an alien race whose name sounds like a police siren, I was very disappointed with this one.

The only tantalising part was the final few moments, which I was honestly expecting to end in the typicla Trek-way of Trip's request being denied, blah blah and the status quo was in no threat at all as usual :)

I can't even say that anymore. Voyager, for it's faults had some classic episodes. I can count Enterprise's on one hand :rolleyes:

It's a shame they're given so little to do. They're better than the scripts they're given.

Yup :thumbsup:

Which makes Season 4 all the more painful to watch :(

The only other good thing I can find myself saying of Enterprise, is that it's finishing soon......

I'm with you on this one Phillip. Given the quality of the second episode of the trilogy this one is a disappointment. A shame, had the trilogy ended with a strong final chapter it might have given the Vulcan arc a run for it's money.

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Yeah, thought you'd like that one Ken :lol:

I can count Voyagers on one hand as well. And they took seven years to get up to that.

Have to agree with that. If they had continued to move in the right direction as they had for season 3, I might actually be quite disappointed that the series was ending. As it was, it turned out that season 3 was an aberration, rather than a new direction. Season 4 is almost as bad as season 2 (I only say almost because season 2 contains the execrable 'vanishing point' , which has to be the worst! episode! ever!).

Going off the standards set by Enterprise's Twilight, Similitude & Azati Prime;

Eye of the Needle, Death Wish, Unity, Darkling, Scorpion I & II, The Raven, Year of Hell I & II, Message in a Bottle, Living Witness, Drone, Timeless, Counterpoint, Latent Image, Someone to Watch Over Me, Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy, Pathfinder, Virtuoso, Shattered, Author Author.

I'd rank any of them as equal to, if not better. IMO :)

:lol: I'm sure Phillip will argue the merits (?) of the first season's Rogue Planet. For me, it's either Vanishing Point or Horizon. I hated Extinction as well :rolleyes:

I have a big hand.

No, my list would be a lot shorter. Year of Hell, Scorpion and Message in a Bottle would be about it.

Also, its worth pointing out that the average episode is better in enterprise than it was in Voyager. I gave up with Voyager after I couldn't stomach another episode of Torres's struggle with her own temper, or Chakotay having another indian vision, or Janeway pretending to be Jane Eyre on the holodeck, or any of hundreds of other totally pointless stories they kept running.

Looking through the respective episode lists, there isn't really a great deal to choose between them.

Both had a good concept, both had decent (enough ) pilots, and yet both have failed to deliver to any great degree.

The average episode of either series, both are pretty woeful.

You did have to remind me of that one, didn't you :) At least Vanishing Point was a good enough episode until they hit the 'all a dream' button at the end :)

One of these days I will finish that Enterprise rewatch I started last summer - right now given the depths S4 has fallen to, I'm getting nostalgic for S1, back when I thought Enterprise was really good :)

You mean back when we were just glad it wasn't Voyager ?? :lol:

Well, I liked it. Again, not outstanding perhaps, but there were some good points.

I thought the Aenar were beautifully realised, lookswise anyway. Very ethereal, and quite stunning.

I couldn't quite see the point in this episode. All the loose ends were tied up, at least until we saw the Aenar pilot. The Aenar issue could just as easily be dealt with in a separate episode, and it's probably a storyline which deserves it's own space.

I agree with many of the criticisms of the show, but I think technically it's superb. I don't think you can fault cast or crew and every episode of the show has been brilliantly realised. It's just that what cast and crew have been given has been pretty poor. (Still much, much better than Voyager, IMO.)

I may be in a minority, but I have mixed feelings about the demise of the show. There's no doubt that the franchise could do with a rest. Lets just hope it comes back better. I'll still miss it though. I've grown to enjoy my weekly visits with Archer, Tucker, T'Pol and co and will be sorry to see them go.

Andrew (HM) :yahoo:

Pretty much in total agreement with Andrew here.

Still enjoying the season although I am getting to be a bit hacked off with the Trip/T'Pol affair. I've never been the greatest Trip fan and now he's acting like a sixteen year old who's been dumped for the first time. Not good