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Broken Bow looks pretty good on my premium 4K player after tweaking some settings, though I know what you mean regarding SD quality.
Twenty years on Archer is even more of a stand out, in the current era of Trek there is no one who matches him (not including Picard S3) to be fair the whole crew of Enterprise is excellent.
Legend.
I don’t think Archer really starts to feel like a captain with an air of authority until S3. They really put him to the limit there. By S4 he’s no longer the naive guy from 1 and 2. Still an explorer but hardened by the harsh reality of it.
Broken Bow is the first time in a long time that I have watched Enterprise, I thought Archer was great. I will see if my opinion changes as I do a full rewatch.
The only thing I would have changed in the pilot is swap the guest Klingon character for Shran. But I get why they went with a Klingon instead as that’s a more familiar alien for the bit opener.
Archer is exceptional later in the episode, the writing is very good.
Enterprisee is light years better than STD. With Enterprise I am locked and totally emotionally invested. The first 4 episodes are high stakes and intense, even better than I remembered.
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Next up arguably one of the greatest films of all time, first time watch in 4K... The Wrath of Khan.
I feel emotional this is my favorite film for a multitude of reasons.
The Wrath of Khan. looks incredible in 4K.
I was more referring to the cold open before they set foot on a planet.
This one of the more evident issues of the first two seasons which made the show feel like there was no real direction to it. Archer seemed to be winging it as he went out exploring and acts like a petulant ass when T’Pol is trying to explain why protocols are beneficial. The pilot at least had a pretty clear cut mission with escorting the Klingon back to his home world, but that didn’t seem to be evident for most of the first two seasons. It almost makes Starfleet look like a bunch of doofuses with no real agenda.
And after the **** hit the fan and everything backfired on him, nearly killing a crew member in the process, we don’t even get a moment where Archer concedes that they could have taken the more cautious approach, which denies us a moment of Archer at least being humbled. This is an issue that pops up over and over, because UPN was apparently worried that having the star of their flagship show admit to being in error would turn off viewers or whatever nonsense.
But like I said, this is only an issue with the first two seasons. The Xindi mission in S3 at least gave the show a new drive and felt like it was actually building up towards something, even if imperfect. And Archer is far better written, as he’s no longer speechifying about really terrible analogies like about humans and gazelles. Then with S4 we see more defined missions given to Archer that makes far better use of the prequel concept in a way that was almost nonexistent in the first two seasons.
I think had S1 had a stronger sense of direction and didn’t make the characters to look like a bunch of unprofessional boobs, the show might not have dropped so hard and fast in the ratings. It had a very strong premise that wasn’t fully taken advantage of until it was too late.
Archer is cavalier and naive early on, yep that's true.
Regarding professionalism, you have watched Strange New worlds? these are the most unprofessional of the lot along with STD.
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Watching episode 5 now of Enterprise S1, really enjoying the rewatch. I love how the show went back to basics technology wise and how more procedures were necessary it opened up more story telling possibility. STD failed miserably as a prequel series before they went to the garish future.
In the episode Unexpected I have no idea how Jolene Blalock keeps a straight face delivering her lines, its hilarious.
You’re criticizing SNW (and lumping it with DISCO as if they’re on same quality) and at the same time praising “Unexpected”? The episode where a crewmember gets impregnated with an alien baby and the show treats it like a wacky comedy?
I’ll be curious if you’re gonna be as easy on “Terra Nova”.
https://x.com/starfleetdesign/status/1772111358487625907
I suspect TNG has such a strong viewership for S1 because so many want to just start at the beginning but it’s the worst season so they naturally drop off. S3 likely gets a bump due to suggestions that many should just start with that season.
Interesting numbers, DS9 has not got the viewers comparatively though there is not much drop off. Those that started watching appeared to stick with DS9 until the end.
They discuss City on the Edge of Forever, fascinating discussion. Bill is so sharp at 93 years young.
The idea of a long lost colony being rediscovered by the Enterprise is a great concept, but they totally fumbled on the logistics of how any of this works. It’s also the first time ENT did what seemed like a retread of a previous Trek episode, in this instance “Friendship One”, which had aired months earlier that same year in Voyager’s final season.
'Lets get the hell out of here'
Edited: Watching Wrath of Khan in 4K again, this is amazing as good as it gets, the writing is world class, there is only one film that can compete TESB.
God this film is amazing in 4K.
Just watching Insurrection, first time viewing of 4K Bluray disk, another great looking remaster, huge step up from the Bluray far more cinematic. Ba'ku planet looks stunning and the sound is again impressive. This film is admittedly one of the weakest though there is a lot to like here, thoroughly enjoying this viewing.
The briar patch battle and denotation of the subspace weapon is pretty awesome.
All ten movies restored in 4K are worth the money.
Jerry Goldsmith score is again outstanding, never sounded better.
Episode 2 dropped also just watched it, its not bad they have certainly ramped up the action and pacing and the music is pretty crazy. They have dialed down the mellow drama considerably which helps. One new character that was introduced in the first episode will make things more interesting.
I like that S5 is a basically an archeological adventure connected to TNG’s “The Chase”. I guess we’ll see how that pays off.