Star Trek: Enterprise

Finished my 4th watching of Star Trek: Enterprise. It doesn't really hit its stride until the 4th season and then it's all over.

I always like the eye candy. It was interesting to read that Jolene Blalock was an awkward child, an outcast, felt ugly. I liked the 4th season when she's trying to control her emotions.

Reading that they rushed the last episode, and many think the last episode is illegitimate, they should cut that one. Killing Trip was a mistake. I didn't feel that much of a clang.

The setting is an idealized future, exploration, curiosity is a great motive. Greed is often an underlying motive. Or weird ideas of purity. I liked it that there was a struggle to suppress humans only movement on Earth. We've always had that shadow haunting us.

Favorite episode were the ones where Archer goes onto Vulcan and finds the original and lost writings of Surak. I found a version of the teachings of Surak.

It's so weird the inspiration of Vulcans was Buddhists, but the focus of logic is all Roddenberry.

Voyager was a favorite. I got into DS9. I watched Next Generation and it was pretty hard to watch. I can't watch the first version. I've only seen one season of the new one and I've not even seen Picard. Lower down on the digital highway, I'm going to have to wait for it to be less hot.

I've probably read about 15 Star Trek novels. Quite fun franchise.

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