Manny Coto, The Showrunner Who Tried To Save 'Star Trek: Enterprise,' Dies
Manny Coto, The Showrunner Who Tried To Save 'Star Trek: Enterprise,' Dies
And he did it brilliantly!
It was night and day when he came in. The show went from mediocre and not what I wanted out of Trek prequel show to just outright bad with the Xindi arc, but then came back to be exactly the prequel I wanted. It even fixed earlier seasons with its 3 episode Kir'shara arc that explained why Enterprise Vulcans seemingly became antagonists that eschewed things like mind melds and other familiar aspects of their culture.
Then when they canceled it, they got rid of him and gave us a truly awful finalie that crapped on the show and everything Manno Coto built.
Just skip the last episode. Terra Prime, the penultimate episode is the true ending.
The showrunners themselves admitted that the final episode was an insulting ending.
I don't see myself changing my position on that.
I watched enterprise for the first time last year and was surprised to have it grow on me so much because of some of the hate it gets. By the last season they really seemed to be getting their stride and it was a shame it got canceled then.
yep, me too. Watching S4 I was like "here we go ... just in time". Shame really.
Yeah. It had good episodes, introduced the Romulans as the real villains they should have been, and showed how Earth wasn't at full Federation yet.
I still watch enterprise from time to time. Wished there was more. I'm not really getting into the new Trek, and I'm extremely not getting into paying for another streaming service, but that's a different story. Discovery and the constant crying was so annoying I decided to give up on the other stuff. It had really nice moments, but overall it was just meh.
Strange New Worlds is like Old Trek. Highly suggest it even if you have to sail the virtual seas to get it.
A pirate I was meant to be!
Trim the sails and roam the sea!
I'll check out a trailer. Thanks!
It's closer to Old Trek. But in the last episode of S1 ::: spoiler spoiler where they take original TOS dialog for parts and mix it with modern dialog - man you really see the difference. Love it or hate it, the TOS dialog feels a lot more martial and IMO fits way better with having ranks on a ship. :::
There's good stuff in it, but they also seem to really have a problem making any non-quippy character, to the extent that I actually think it affects characterization. To that end, Ortegas still
Spock is certainly "in between" The Cage and TOS, but I think they're going to have to re-do something like Kohlinar to explain his change in the last episode of SNW.
It's reasonably good, but significantly different too.
I also suggest Strange New Worlds. It’s the best Trek since TNG (imo). There are certainly some silly parts and some episodes do lean a little more towards comedy then I’d like in my Trek, but even still. It’s good Trek.
I haven't rewatched any Enterprise except the mirror duology since first run, but I really never got the hate people had for it. I think I always thought it was pretty good. I don't know if I'd say it was better than Voyager overall, I think my main ding was what I think is a stupid idea of a prequel. But take that out of it, and I'd think they were even. I used to think they were tied for the bottom two, but Discovery and Picard have really lowered my opinion of what bad Trek can be, so Voyager and Enterprise look a lot better by comparison lol.
If anyone is annoyed, then they don't know how to deal with opinions.
I don't think there's anything to be angry about. Enjoying some Star Trek shows over others is a compliment to Star Trek. It means that all the shows aren't just a copy/paste of each other. That there is variety, yet they are all Star Trek. We should not, do not, have to apologize for having favorites. Being pissed at someone for preferring a different Star Trek show than ones favorite(s) is silly, and should never happen. LLAP.