I go through periods where YT recommends various Star Trek videos (I get that it recommends more as I watch more), and i can't help but think that Star Trek Enterprise was something that could have been so good. I know I've already stated this, but I came across a YT "Star Trek Enterprise Season 2 Episode 23 Regeneration" where Archer runs into the borg - really. You had such a blank canvas to paint great epic storylines and all do you bring back the borg? They also relied too heavily on time travel Take the whole Suliban arc as an example.
Just my $.02 as I sift through watching clips of various Star Trek episodes.
One other thought I want to say - DS9 started off slow, but there were more very good/great episodes then there were bad episodes. I have a new appreciation of how good that show really was.
Funny you mention this. I've been getting the same YT suggestions, and like every good Trekkie/Trekker, I took the bait. I just finished seeing the clip of Barclay getting in contact with Voyager, the climax to the pilot of DS9, Legate Damar's Rebellion Speech, Q getting punched by Sisko, and Quark fighting a Klingon to protect Grillka's House in front of Gowron.
The interesting thing to note when you look deeper into the acting behind each of the episodes, is that you can tell the directing style of who is in the director's chair at the time of that show. For a lot of shows that Frakes directed, including ST: First Contact, Frakes has a knack for inserting humor into the scenes. Case in point, when Quark verbally **** slaps a Klingon while answering a challenge:
I am Quark, son of Keldar. I'm here to answer the challenge of D'Gor, son of.... whatever.
Plus it was Frakes that first noticed the eyes of Robert O'Reilly. Because of that and how he made Gowron's eyes so big that the light from the cameras reflected wonderfully off of them, it made for a great time to scare everyone, then bust out laughing after O'Reilly did it:
That - and that O'Reilly turned down being in any of the movies - is why Gowron survived for so long. I mean, with the exception of Worf, and a few from
The Final Frontier and
The Undiscovered Country, there haven't been many Klingons who has survived a Star Trek movie.
Burton lent a lot more recent historical events to it: I mean, it was a bold move to put him in command of the USS Challenger, especially if... I can't remember if that episode aired before or after Columbia went down.
What I would love to see is Gates direct an episode. It's no secret that women have had a disadvantage with directing, and it's even happened in her career. I'd love to see her or Roxanne Dawson (B'Lonna Torres) direct a future ST episode.
BL.
