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"Allan C Cybulskie" <allan.c.cybulskie@yahoo.ca> wrote in message 
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> <gray.wizard@moria.mines> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 21 May 2006 10:02:53 -0400, "Allan C Cybulskie"
>> <allan.c.cybulskie@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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>> >I didn't like Enterprise, partly because it didn't seem to fit with the
>> >other series and later partly because in order to build tension they
> added
>> >that whole "time travel" crap so that we wouldn't know how it would end.
>>
>> The way I understand it the time travel crap was dropped in after the
>> wrod came down that the series was not going to be back next season so
>> the time travel thing was a plot device so they could work in their
>> favorite plotlines they had planed for later seasons.
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> I thought it came in at the end of the second season.  I never watched the
> show much, but I did catch one of the season finales that introduced it, 
> and
> it really did strike me as being introduced to add some suspense into the
> show.  But since I didn't watch it, I can't really say.

I probably need to watch it again but from memory I thought it was added for 
suspense AND to show the history of the reason for the prime directive.

What I liked about Enterprise was their attempt to show where all those 
Federation rules we've accepted since we were kids originated and why.  I 
liked that the characters weren't the perfect Picard types.  I liked that 
they didnt try to say 'and then the Vulcans found us and everybody lived 
happily ever after'.  The tension with the (surpisingly less than perfect) 
Vulcans was a great.  The cock-ups were great.  The 'racism' against all 
these new species now coming to Earth was believable.  The somewhat reckless 
actions of the earthmen, their desires for revenge, their thirst for 
pioneering exploration, their disregard for the Vulcans rules etc all showed 
a more believable (for me) aspect to the goody-goody folk of Earth that 
supposedly followed.  They could have done a lot more with the show.  It 
improved every season.