From: mofo@sdf.lonestar.org.org   
      
   On 14 Aug 2006 09:28:17 -0700, nebusj wrote:   
   >   
   > Mike Coddington wrote:   
   >> On 13 Aug 2006 10:35:00 -0700, nebusj wrote:   
   >> >         Beats me.  I'm mighty far out on the pop culture food chain.   
   >> > Channel 5 here just started running Enterprise's fourth season, when   
   >> > they decided to make it a Star Trek show.   
   >>   
   >> Out of curiosity, what happened in the fourth season to make Enterprise   
   >> into a Star Trek show? I watched a few episodes of the first season,   
   >> said "Ehh..." and went back to reruns of TNG and TOS, like I end up   
   >> doing with everything post-Picard.   
   >   
   >         Well, the show was taken over by a bunch of Original Series   
   > fanboys, including on the writing staff Garfield and Judith   
   > Reeve-Stevens, who wrote some of the best (and most   
   > hard-science-fiction type) Star Trek novels, like 'Prime Directive' and   
   > 'Memory Alpha'.   
   >   
   >         They gave in to the shrinking programming hours and went in for   
   > multi-part episodes with more of a serial adventure flow and a rather   
   > tighter focus on the plot, rather than the first- and second-season bit   
   > of an A-plot, unrelated B-plot.  Also they had people start acting with   
   > some *energy*, as if they're interested in the stories, unlike the   
   > first two years.  They also started turning the lights on the sets,   
   > unlike the third year.   
   >   
   >         It's amazing just what people confident in their Trek lore and   
   > feeling, with some energy and vitality, will do even for a show that   
   > racked up as much bad karma as Enterprise did its first two years.   
   >   
      
   Cool. I will have to Tivo some episodes and give them a spin. I've been   
   getting into Star Trek more lately. A spontaneous discussion on the Borg   
   broke out today at work, which was pretty cool. Of course, I work with   
   computers, so it's a little more likely to break out at my work as   
   opposed to say a department store!   
      
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