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I have the series on DVD. Except for Voyager, which I saw only the first two seasons of (which a few exceptions), I feel it is the weakest Star Trek series. It took a lot of time for the show to get on track, and to be honest, one could argue it never really entirely got it's bearings entirely. I did enjoy the third season, which did a good job at putting a single continuing storyline into a single year. The fourth season, I thought, had it's strengths and weaknesses. The first two years were somewhat unimpressive, and did not do much in establishing the show as different, except in a cosmetic sense.

I don't understand what it is with all ya'll who dislike or hate Voyager. It was the best by far, it had a woman captain who didn't bat an eye at trouble or attempt some soliloquy about something like the others did.

Enterprise was good, especially the 3rd season, which I just got done watching. I liked the Trip/T'pol romantic interlude and the fact that they had sex, was surprising, now I wonder if they'll get together in Season 4, and NO ONE TELL Me, I WANT TO FIND OUT FOR MYSELF.

I caught TOS in after school reruns and got hooked as a kid. I really tried to like TNG (I respect that many others do) but it was too bland for me. I loved DS9 for its conflict, darkness and (IMO) more complex characters.
I also tried to watch Voyager and Enterprise. They weren't 'bad', but neither of those managed to capture my attention.

My major criticism of Star Trek is, over time, the show(s) have moved from being perfectly willing to be critical of the self to being completely critical of the other.

The original series was perfectly happy (and very good at) doing stories that examined many of "our" core beliefs, and wasn't afraid to come away saying we need to grow up as a species. But that went out the window, and now Star Trek is about Americans boldly going where no-one has gone before, telling them to stop being so damn un-American and threatening to blow them up if they doing start acting like Americans. The stories always take the moral high ground and look down their noses at other cultures.

One notable exception was religion in DS9. In pretty much all ST, religion is a crock, a scam. The natives are worshipping a false god, and it's up to the brave boys to show them that spirituality is wrong and they should embrace technology instead (BTW, personally I'm an atheist). However, the whole of DS9 can be read as Sisko rejecting Star Fleet's paradigm of the "wormhole aliens" and embracing Bajor's religious prophets.

Enterprise was really where this steady progression reached its nadir, which is really odd, because it was set so far back in time that the barbaric ages of humanity should be a recent memory.

An example of this whole process is the Organians. They appeared twice in Star Trek, very early on in Errand of Mercy, and in the last series of Enterprise, Observer Effect.

In Errand Of Mercy the Organians are revealed to be morally superior, because they tell us to stop fighting like children and grow up. However Observer Effect treats them as morally inferior, because they don't become involved to save lives. The first story yields the moral high ground to an expression that will run counter to the veiwer's beliefs, the second merely serves to underline the viewer's moral code, and make them feel superior.

I think that's why they bucked continuity with respect to the Vulcans, the producers couldn't stand the idea of giving "Them" a morally superior position, so they got taken down.

I hated Enterprise ever since season 2 ended. I hated the Xindi story arc, I hated the way the went away from the established Star Trek canon lines. I take my Star Trek seriously. I consider the fan film series Star Trek Hidden Frontier to be more canon than Enterprise. I thought Enterprise was stupid, and the finale to Enterprise was a JOKE.

Enterprise had some good episodes, but I thought the show was not the best, It left a lot to be desired from Paramount/CBS, which I am also pissed off that they cancelled Jericho, which had more potential than Enterprise.

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was the series final the one with the terrorist who took over some mars station and tried to attack star fleet?
i rem watching that ep thinking the whole time that guy was a romulan trying to stop the federation from being formed, but it turned out he was just some jackass
really he looked and sounded romulan just w/out the funny face and ears.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now i remember that ep. lol the actors for ricker and troy are all old and fat now

They cancelled it just when it was getting to be good.

Yeah thought I spotted him there!! ! (Tim Russ, isn't he?)