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"AC" wrote in message
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> Bruce Burden wrote:
> > AC wrote:
> > :
> > : Never understood the hostility towards Voyager and Enterprise. IMHO,
> > :
> > Vigrs problem is that the writers ran out of ideas before
> > they managed to return home. Typical Hollywood.
> >
> > As a result, it fell into the entirely too predictable rut
> > of "how are we going to destroy the ship this week, and babble
> > our way out of it".
>
> Yeah, normal ST then. Nothing against it, liked it, but I dont see how
> that was different to TOS or TNG.
>
> >
> > Enterprise also suffered from the time travel bullshit
> > syndrome, and only Capitan Leaper could save the day. Barf. It
> > was hard enough to accept Bacula as the capitan, but the fixation
> > on bad writing was the real killer. The smartest thing they did
> > was put Balock in a tight uni...
> >
> > Bruce
>
> "Bad writing" is so over used. What does it mean? People go on about
> lazy, but this phrase seems the laziest of all.
>
> Never had a problem with time travel plots. I dont see how they are
> intrinsically bad.
They are very rarely done well and end up simply as a confused, error-ridden
waste of time ... literally. The same happens with the "big red reset
button" episodes, at the end they simply push the button making the entire
episode a waste of time since it never happened ... it's a lazy writer's
escape hatch. :-(
> I will agree that Bacula was hard to take.
>
> I thought Enterprise was over ambitious and they got it a bit wrong, but
> nothing offensive.
Nothing offensive, unless you're an actual fan of "Star Trek", unlike the
Beavis & Butthead twins who were in charge.
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