Star Trek: Lower Decks (animated series)

ilovesmybrick · 05-09-2023 7:39pm

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Can't say I disagree too much. Hated the temporal cold war stuff in Enterprise and the whole Xindi design and CGI, but there are some great episodes in the four seasons and I would like to think that if it had the extra 60+ episodes Voyager had there would have been some pretty good stuff in there. Probably more than Voyager. Problem with Voyager is once they got into the flow of it all the really good stuff focuses on the Doctor and Seven so you rewatch their stuff a lot, the Paris and Torres did not work at all, Kim and Tuvok weren't really interesting enough to do much with, Chakotay was there..But most of the best stuff is coming around season 4/5, how much of 1-3 are really that memorable. Kazon were garbage like!

Not saying Enterprise did much better that way, but I think they had kind of got to the stage that they realised Phlox and Trip were solid enough to focus on and the characters were interesting enough to be able to carry episodes by themselves. I think that they had built up some really interesting antagonists/allies with the Andorians/Vulcans/Klingons, you were getting a sense of how it worked with the chronology, and they were launching new ships and starting to expand properly. There was a lot of potential for a very fun season or two.

And I really love the potential redesign they had for Season 5 of the Enterprise, so that also may also colour my thinking!