Just watched the first part and the season opener. The Americains wouldnt know a good thing if it hit them in the face. I found the episode to be interesting and continuing where the last series left off in improving the overall show.

Although my copy was the clearest in the world I still enjoyed the episode very much and I am dying for next saturday to come so that I can see the finale.

8/10 at least.

I've just tried to watch my copy and it's jumpy with the sound synch out. Trying to decide whether I can be bothered getting another copy or not.

On the quality front, wait for the 350MB files Ken, specifically the HDTV or PDTV copies. They're better quality ;)

Just tried my copy on the PC and it works fortunately :thumbsup:

A pretty darned good start to the season. Better than last season's opener The Xindi and better than the previous year's Shockwave Part 2.

The first thing to note is the improved picture quality. The move to digital camerawork looks to be paying dividends already. Widescreen and digital picture. Wow.

With regards to the episode itself, I enjoyed it. I must admit to a weakness for Earth-centric episodes every now and then. And, a return to that old Star Trek staple, the Nazis !! I must say though, it's much better employed here than it was in Voyager's The Killing Game. It was quite surreal though seeing the Germans in control of New York with only what seemed like Mobsters providing the resistance.

The Temporal Cold War is not only back but looks to be heading towards some sort of cataclysmic resolution. One thing that struck me as soon as the recap came on from the season 3 finale, when Archer's in the tend with the Alien/Nazi looking over him, is this Alien guy FG by chance ?? Odd, I didn't think that at the time, and I haven't thought that all summer, but as soon as that recap flashed up, it was a case of 'Duh!!'. Still not confirmed, but you got the distinct impression that Alien Nazi/Future Guy/Vosk are all the same person.

There's no noticable downsizing of the Season 4 budget here, but with it being the season premiere that's hardly surprising. I'll be interested to see how the next few episodes pan out.

Even Travis got something to do, although, he now seems to be getting himself afflicted by the Harry Kim syndrome. Nothing to do, then finally something to do, but oh wait, something bad happens to him :rolleyes:

All in all a good episode. Plenty of action, good advancement of the TCW thread and some good stuff from Bakula.

Bring on Part 2. :thumbsup:

Angel - which DVD player do you have? I'm looking for one with multiregion and can deal with various downloaded files (which I believe you have), so I'm out looking for recommendations :)

Here you go Phillip. It's called a Yamada Dvx-6600. It's multi-region, plays DivX and costs about £55 :thumbsup:

I got mine directly from the website, gameloaded.co.uk and had no problems, it was there the day after I bought it.

The critical reaction;

Less than stellar :(

Excellent - do you know if that covers XVid as well?

Yes I'm naive and have no idea if it's technically the same thing :)

Pretty sure it covers Xvid as well Phillip. In fact it's covered pretty much everything I've thrown at it. VCD, SVCD, Mpeg, AVI, MP3 :thumbsup:

Even better - I think I'll be placing an order tonight - that's 25 quid less than the other player I saw on Amazon! :)

And shouldn't you be working rather than being on the net? :)

I took the day off, wasn't feeling too good first thing. Still not 100%, may have to stretch it to two days. :rolleyes:

Well, that's 60 quid spent - hopefully it'll all work happily! :)

Mine's been invaluable. Download, burn, watch on big TV downstairs :thumbsup:

Out of interest, have you had to add any firmware downloads-burn onto CD jobs? I've heard in a few places it might need to be done, and I'm concerned I might dick it up if I do something wrong :)

I've not added anything to mine. I've had it a good 6 months now if not longer and it still plays practically everything I've tried. From a codec pov, it doesn't look to have any problems. I did have a problem with this week's Enterprise, but that's down to the file I think as I reburnt it and still the same problem. Everything else has played fine though.

Firmware's no problem Phillip, you'll master it in no time ;)

Online Reviews for Part 1 - Taken from Trektoday;

Just watched episode 2 and I thought it was GREAT!!!!!

(Which will probably mean the americains have deserted in droves again)

Well acted, well thought out, a little hasty in its conclusion perhaps but apart from that it appears to have been well written.

Season 4 has taken off exactly where season 3 left off - an excellent start to what will hopefully be an excellent season!!! (F **k what the americans think)

Oops. Better divert your eyes away from the update I've posted to the '20%' topic :unsure:

I'll be watching later, along with Lost 1x04.

I've seen it.

Let me know what you think to the episode.

Giving up caring what the americans think. They seem determined to kill off STAR TREK even if it produced the best season of TV ever.

Just going to enjoy this season wether it is the last or not.

I think you overstate the case for Season 3 Ken, but I do tend to think the series doesn't deserve cancellation.

It's undoubtedly paying the price for Voyager disenfranchising so much of core Trek fandom.

I wasnt making out that season 3 WAS the best season of TV ever, I just meant if they did produce the best the powers that be in AMERICA seem determined to kill it off regardless

I don't think they're actively going out of their way to kill it Ken. The problem is that neither Berman or Braga seem capable of saving it. To be fair, UPN, despite protestations of under-promotion, have been fairly lenient with the series. With numbers like those that Enterprise gets UPN would be well within their rights to cancel the show. There have been shows cancelled with a lot better numbers than those.

The problem last year was that UPN's patience was finally running out. It's common knowledge that it was only renewed after some strenuous negotiating, ie. cutting the budget and episode order. I don't much see that there's anything that they can do this time around. The numbers are in freefall and they've got no bargaining chips left. We can't really blame the network, it's solely down to Berman and Braga outstaying their welcome :angry:

Watched this last night;

Not bad. A lot better opening to the season than last year's The Xindi IMO. As time travel episodes go, not bad at all. Better than Carpenter Street, and better than Voyager's comparable episodes; Future's End and The Killing Game. In fact, think of those two fused, and that's pretty much what Storm Front is :lol:

Although not directly confirmed, I think we can take it as read that Vosk wasn't FG. Doubtful we'll ever find that out now, as this was supposed to herald the climax to the TCW arc within Enterprise. The ending with Daniels certainly played to that end.

So I guess B&B really didn't know who FG was all along afterall, worse still, they couldn't even be bothered to tell us at the end :rolleyes:

Guess we are just supposed to forget about FUTURE GUY then?

I have enjoyed both episodes of season 4 so far, next week is going to be a good test with it not being a continuation of the finale from last season.

Some interesting episodes coming up but I doubt that is going to make much of a difference to the ratings. Would be interesting to see what having Kirk turn up would do though.

It's unlikely we'll find out Ken. Even if Shatner signs on this season, it won't be as Kirk.

Only those two t##ts would do this!

They're the single biggest reason why people are tuning out of Trek right, left and centre :rolleyes:

Well, I finally saw it, and to be honest I was unimpressed, which pretty much sums up the whole Temporal Cold War! (which is a shame, as it did show promise when it started :()

The second episode was an improvement, but I really couldn't get excited about it.

Probably a 5/10 overall - hopefully the fact they've got this silly story out of the way will help the series overall!

I've just got around to seeing this as well, and I was slightly underwhelmed too. Its not that it it did anything particularly wrong, and it was fairly enjoyable in places, but it was just a been there, seen that episode. When the time conduit thingy opened at the end, I had to remind myself I wasn't watching sliders.

Enterprise has come on a long way since season 2. Some of those earlier episodes deserved cancellation right there and then. Its never that bad anymore.

Trouble is, there is still a feeling of going through the motions. The fact that Future guy wasn't revealed was just sloppy. Do you think B+B had a clue who he was when they created the character? Or did they just think, "Oh, we'll say it was Barclay or someone in series 7". The big reset button is a very overused plot device as well.

B5 was over a decade ago, and showed the importance of having some idea where the storyline is going. B+B still haven't learned this lesson.

I quite enjoyed seeing the enterprise flying through New York at the end though (even though, AFAIK, Enterprise isn't capable of atmospheric flight).

I just watched the first two parts of season 4 of enterprise last night and was left feeling what a pile of rubbish. I'm completely sick of watching Second World War Nazi storylines in Star Trek! Been there, seen that, got the T-shirt... Only kidding about the T-shirt. I couldn't buy the alien collaboration with the Nazi's whose racial beliefs for purity of the human race by ethnic cleansing and genocide would coincide with w**king with aliens that look like the master from Buffy ! <_<

I found the World War Two planes which were retro fitted with plasma cannons laughable (literally) and a great big red Reset button zapped into action right at the end. How could killing Vosk completely reset the time line? Okay he's dead but history has already been changed first with the assassination of that Russian (was it Stalin? I can't remember.) in 1916 and the fact that in 1944 the Germans had landed in the US and controlled the White House. :whistling:

it probably didn't help that I watched an excellent episode of Farscape (Won't Get fooled Again) before watching this double bill of Enterprise but I still felt extremely disappointed after last season's fantastic w**k.

Judging season four so far on this double bill alone I can't say I will be sad to see enterprise cancelled if this is the quality I can expect throughout the season.

Don't get your hopes up mate. It doesn't get much better.

By their own admission they had no idea who he was to begin with, but they then later said that they'd figured it out.

Storm Front however, confirms what most fans had suspected for a while, they had no idea, and were still making up the TCW arc as they went along.

The TCW arc has served no other real purpose other than providing an excuse for every continuity lapse that we've seen on the show.

Unoriginal, uncreative, uninspiring.

Not to mention exceptionally lazy. Quite pathetic really.

Do you think they should have gone with a B5-style season title ??

Enterprise Season 4: The Year of the Lazy Uninspiring Drivel

:lol:

Watched part 2 last night. Sure, it's full of holes, and full of unanswered questions, but it was enjoyable nonsense. I have to admit, I was playing a game of 'which Trek episode was that scene taken from.' (Most notably of course, Archer having his lady friend - name escapes me - beamed up to the Enterprise. Straight from Picard and Lilly in 'First Contact'.)

It was good fun though, and a shame to see Sillick go, as I think he had the makings of a good nemesis. It kind of summed up Enterprise for me... a load of good ideas, all of which represent missed opportunities.

Whilst I did enjoy 'Storm Front', I believe it should have been stuck in the middle of the season some where. I thought the 'what the f**k?' ending to season three came close to spoiling the whole season for me. Instead of trying to be clever, B & B should have used the ending to 'Storm Front' to season 3. OK, not so dramtic, but it would have ended season 3 permanently, and given B & B and Coto a completely blank slate to w**k with for season 4.

As for Future Guy... didn't someone say he was looking for a means of travelling through time physically, not just projecting himself? But I totally agree with what you guys have said... the gruesome twosome have had no idea who he actually is.

Surely, it's not too much to suggest that, if you are going to have a long running storyline that twists and intermingles with the rest of the show, you at least have some idea how it's going to turn out, and who the main protagonists actually are. Just shows how inept B & B actually are!

Still, an enjoyable couple of hours for me. Not challenging, but fun. I think some of you guys, and some of the critics are being a bit harsh. But I'm going to carry on watching, and see what happens. It may not be the best of Trek, but compared to Voyager....

Take care,

Andrew (HM) :upside:

I think thats been the problem with Enterprise all along. It can do episodes which are fun, but that don't make sense. I always get the impression that its been written for kids.

Its the sci-fi equivalent of the A-Team.

:)

So I take it that that was a "Bobby in the Shower" bit. Presumably the whole of the Xindi arc just never happened.

I'm not a fan of time travel stories at the best of times (and I'm not in the best of times right now) and I couldn't figure oyt why the Americans and Germans would want to get together. Against whom?

Still, it was enjoyable hokum as long as you don't try and understand it.

I read it as just the events we saw in 'Storm Front' never happened, and that Voss's death restored the time line to the way it should have been. I'm not going to think too hard about it all, as time travel gives me a headache, especially when you have to squeeze a badly thought out plot into a logical order! (Pass me the paracetamol, someone!)

I assumed the welcoming party we saw at the end of the show was out to celebrate Enterprise stopping the Xindi attack.

Andrew (HM) :upside:

Same here Andrew. Sadly I'm taking medication at the moment so my dosage of red wine is a little curtailed. :lol:

I usually fins that after a generous amount my understanding of time travel becomes crystal clear.


Sadly, I've ususally forgotten it by the following morning :whistling: