I was reminded of this by reading the Star trek Lawsuit Thread and to avoid hijacking that thread, I'll just start another one to discuss my topic.
I had this thought at the beginning of the Enterprise series (which I think, like DS9 - I never watched Voyager - has its moments). Why would you start out the series with the huge "temporal cold war" subplot? I mean, I thought it would be interesting enough that we were about to see Starfleet meeting all the cultures that we've seen in the previous series (which we did with the Andorians, I really like those stories), and not get the "alien of the week" stuff that we had on TNG (which doesn't make alot of sense, you would think we would have seen some of the new Enterprise aliens in TNG or TOS - but anyway back to it). I thought this "Everything is new again" or "Whole new world" kindof scenario would be a great storytelling outlet for Star Trek to take. So whay start out with this heavy time-travel stuff? Why mess with the ST universe timeline scifi geeks love so much? The only thing I can think of is that its an out for later in the series. Like say they want to do somethign cataclismic in the series if ratings slip, with the whole time travel subplot, things could get turned around so that the Enterprise never existed, or never did this, or never did that, etc etc. I just really didn't understand why they would abandoned all this rich story that they could have added to and would have been interesting to those new to the ST universe and really enjoyed by those of us who have followed it for years to pursue this overly complicated premise.
Anyway, just something I've been sitting on for 2 seasons. I'd like to hear some other peoples thoughts on it.
C-ya
I had this thought at the beginning of the Enterprise series (which I think, like DS9 - I never watched Voyager - has its moments). Why would you start out the series with the huge "temporal cold war" subplot? I mean, I thought it would be interesting enough that we were about to see Starfleet meeting all the cultures that we've seen in the previous series (which we did with the Andorians, I really like those stories), and not get the "alien of the week" stuff that we had on TNG (which doesn't make alot of sense, you would think we would have seen some of the new Enterprise aliens in TNG or TOS - but anyway back to it). I thought this "Everything is new again" or "Whole new world" kindof scenario would be a great storytelling outlet for Star Trek to take. So whay start out with this heavy time-travel stuff? Why mess with the ST universe timeline scifi geeks love so much? The only thing I can think of is that its an out for later in the series. Like say they want to do somethign cataclismic in the series if ratings slip, with the whole time travel subplot, things could get turned around so that the Enterprise never existed, or never did this, or never did that, etc etc. I just really didn't understand why they would abandoned all this rich story that they could have added to and would have been interesting to those new to the ST universe and really enjoyed by those of us who have followed it for years to pursue this overly complicated premise.
Anyway, just something I've been sitting on for 2 seasons. I'd like to hear some other peoples thoughts on it.
C-ya