Enterprise
Jan. 22nd, 2011 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plumtreeblossomLast night I watched episodes 1 and 2 of Season 1 of Star Trek: Enterprise. I did it because it's the only Star Trek series I'd never watched any of (for the record, I don't watch TV on TV, and haven't for about 30 years. Only Hulu and Roku have brought me back), and for years I've been meaning to catch up and learn the Enterprise series characters, history, etc. I like the Star Trek verse a lot. It's been with me since childhood, and in the sci-fi trifecta of major religions (Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who), Star Trek is mine, in a loose sort of way. I want to like this prequel series. But these first two episodes were hard to get into.
A definite: for further episode watchings, I need to turn the sound off during the insufferable country-western-ish opening theme song. That music threw my head right out of Star Trek verse and into the next county, and I didn't feel like I was watching a Star Trek series at all until the appearance of a Talaxian character in Ep 1.
Captain Archer and his inner posse are SO good-old-boy American. They're bubbas. I know this series was created 10 years ago, but it was supposed to be set in 2151 CE. Were the creators going for a different viewer demographic with this? They must have been.
Jean-Luc Picard, you will always be the sexiest captain in my heart.
I do like the "primative" ship. I like the utilitarian, non-gendered uniforms. I like the skittish distrust of new technologies, like the not-quite-perfected transporter. What I don't like is the Dubya-ness of the human characters. And that facking theme song.
I'm not done trying it. I hope it gets better.
A definite: for further episode watchings, I need to turn the sound off during the insufferable country-western-ish opening theme song. That music threw my head right out of Star Trek verse and into the next county, and I didn't feel like I was watching a Star Trek series at all until the appearance of a Talaxian character in Ep 1.
Captain Archer and his inner posse are SO good-old-boy American. They're bubbas. I know this series was created 10 years ago, but it was supposed to be set in 2151 CE. Were the creators going for a different viewer demographic with this? They must have been.
Jean-Luc Picard, you will always be the sexiest captain in my heart.
I do like the "primative" ship. I like the utilitarian, non-gendered uniforms. I like the skittish distrust of new technologies, like the not-quite-perfected transporter. What I don't like is the Dubya-ness of the human characters. And that facking theme song.
I'm not done trying it. I hope it gets better.