I have to agree, the first couple seasons of TNG were good at the time, but are just painful to watch nowadays.

As for Enterprise, it took three seasons, but if you look at just the fourth season (with the exception of the final ep), they'd actually really found their feet and were putting out some good stuff. My biggest disappointment is that they didn't do a Q episode. They knew they were going out anyways, and yet still didn't manage to get Q in there. *Sigh*

As for the Star Trek 'lore', the 2009 movie may have done them a good turn in tossing it out the window. After everything Braga/Berman did with that world (for good or ill), it needed either a movie or a series to essentially open things up once again. Personally, I'd have done it differently, with fewer lens flares, but I do think it absolutely had to be done.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:58 pm She's a Brit. One can only imagine her Brit smile.

I wouldn’t normally bother responding to such a laughably xenophobic post; however I found your hypocrisy mildly amusing on this occasion. From what I was able to decipher from your post, you seem to have had a strong emotional reaction to the discovery that a non-American actress has been cast in the next Star Trek film. For me the amusing part is that you’re referring to a television franchise that fundamentally promotes tolerance, inclusion and multiculturalism, with one of the shows greatest social contributions been the diverse cast of characters from different races, cultures, nationalities and even species in 1960s America. Clearly these messages were lost on you.

On a side note, the actress your referring to (Alice Eve) spent most of her childhood growing up in California, attending American schools, making American friends, watching American television and been socialised into American beliefs and values.