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DS9 is Best Trek. And good call on... that show that never happened. *shudders*
At least they didn't do it in front of the Crystal Heart.
I never took to star trek. I preferred X-Men in the whole sifi genres.
I am loving this series. It's like a sit com! Keep up the great work!
5946939 Enterprise cant be that bad....can it? (Just started watching the show due to a friend getting me on Star Trek Online)
Ah, Spike is one of those fanboys, eh?
*Takes in a big breath* ENTERPRISE WAS BETTER THAN VOYAGER.
They both sucked, they both were mediocre, and the only reason people like Voyager better was the fact that most of them were young enough that their minds could give the crap a pass that they couldn't do with Enterprise later on time. At least Enterprise tried to return to the old formula of "pushing the boundaries of human knowledge" instead of "feelings in space". It failed, of course, but it got points for trying, and I enjoyed it more than I enjoyed Voyager. That's like saying I enjoyed a kick to the knee than to the groin, but you understand my meaning.
Point is, Rick Berman is a hack.
Anyway, lovely chapter, aside from the aforementioned.
And his little "quirk"? Given how names are changed, I half expect that to be the name for Quark from DS9. Which brings whole new levels of unintentional awkwardness.
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Ten bucks says they get to that soon.
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Well, despite the danger of starting a which Trek was the best discussion, I will say this much.
Enterprise improved a lot in its later seasons, and there's even the odd episode in Seasons 1 & 2 that I genuinely enjoyed. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was this:
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Just
Voyager had a lot of good ideas, great actors and (at least with Seven and the Doc) very interesting characters with well realized character arcs. That being said, it often suffered from hack writing and wasting its own potential by playing things safe. But most of the time it was at least an enjoyable hour of television in a turn-off-your-brain kind of way.
Enterprise, on the other hand, could get downright offensive on certain episodes while Berman and Braga were at the helm. Sure, Voyager produced some turds as well. But let's not talk about Threshold here, shall we?
To me, Enterprise returning to the old formula is actually one of its core problems. At least Voyager tried to do something new and failed. Enterprise tried to do what we'd seen before and still managed to fail at it. So no, it doesn't get any points for trying from me in that regard. With the Xindi arc they actually tried something new, and that's when the show as a whole improved.
I prefer TNG and DS9 over both. But when it comes to Voyager and Enterprise, I still enjoy Voyager more, even though they both have many flaws.
In the story, I tried to represent all kinds of fans.
-Spike's the TOS fanatic.
-Big Mac prefers TNG
-Velvet is a Niner
-And AJ turns out to be one of those people who genuinely enjoy Voyager, despite its flaws.
(And hey, even TOS, TNG and DS9 have their flaws.)
If you got some enjoyment out of Enterprise, good for you. And I mean that sincerely.
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News Flash: All changelings in the world were ejected from the planet after something caused the Crystal Heart, the Magical Defense Battery, literally, of the Crystal Empire to become over charged and temporarily engulf the entire world in its shield.
Oh god, friends with CFD.
One of my biggest problems with ENT was that it had some of the WORST prime directive enforcements...despite the PD not existing yet! Like the time Phlox made the decision to let a race go extinct because 'evolution said so'. Or when Archer and Malcom pretty much started a war because Malcom dropped his phone and they were too stubborn to admit they were aliens and not enemy super soldiers/spies while trying to get it back.
This chapter!
Loved the ending!
Great chapter.
...I haven't watched Star Trek in over ten years and have nothing sensible to say about it
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Four words: time-travelling alien Nazis, I shit you not. And that wasn't even the dumbest idea.
They could have done a proper series about the Earth-Romulan war, but nooo....
HAh!
5948258 ...Noo they wouldn't do something that stupid. THEY DID! WHY? (good thing I started on TNG)
This story is awesome. Please, continue!
I shit you not, the Great Ponyville Library War of 2015 had me spitting my drink. I mourn my monitor, yet want nothing more than to like this again and again.
I don't understand why Twilight didn't stop the guards herself, she is a princess right?
Anyway, the only trek thing I wanted to say was that Janeway wasn't the first female Captain. She was the first main character female Captain yes, but there were others (well okay I can only remember one, but still). Anyhow, this is your version of it so Maneway could be the first for all we know.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Applejack is going to get Rarity to make her a Seven of Eight costume?
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Well, Twilight probably went into shock as soon as books started to get hurt. And we've already seen how Celestia and Cadence were unable to reign them in during the Flugelhorn battle.
Yes, you are technically correct. We've seen one or two female captains in TNG plus at least two female admirals that I can remember, even got lip service to Shelby being given a command in DS9. But Spike's comment was aimed at 'first female captain as a main cast member.'
I like this story and all, but this has to be said, since it's appearing so often now.
Pony Trek? Really? That's not even a pun, you just replaced one word with another word. You should've gone with Star Trot.
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Don't blame me. I didn't come up with it.
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5947078 Had some of the best mirror universe episodes ever, and some cool temporal cold war stuff, but overall fairly week.
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I'll give you the mirror universe episode. That one was kinda fun.
But the temporal cold war stuff? Eh. I think it's an intriguing idea, but the show creators never put in the thought and effort needed for that subplot to work. As a result, it just ended up being non-sensical and going nowhere.
And I don't wanna have to remind everybody again. The dumb resolution to the temporal cold war brought us this:
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I rest my case.
5951067 I thought he meant aliens acting like Nazis NOT LITERAL ALIEN NAZIS!!
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Congratulations. Your inability to even conceive such a dumb notion proves that you're at least ten times smarter than the two knuckleheads who ran the show at that point.
5951067 Full confession, I liked alien Nazis from the future, and the general idea of a species that "take their orders from the future." Were they actually Nazis themselves, or just playing along with their human allies?
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Like I said, the idea of a temporal cold war isn't that bad on paper. But it was executed so badly. We never get to see any of the major players and their motivations in this war, (except for the Sphere Builders who want to take over the galaxy. How original!)
Our 'heroes' just bumble through this ill-conceived plotline, not really knowing what they're actually doing most of the time, and somehow they manage not to screw it up at the end.
If you enjoyed the temporal cold war, good for you. But for me personally, that silly image the Season 3 cliffhanger ended on was what broke Star Trek for me. It actually made me stop watching. It wasn't until years later that I gave Season 4 a chance and wasn't too disappointed. Though admittedly my expectations weren't very high to begin with.
Weirdly enough, that is almost the exact way I got into Transformers, my mom would play with me after my nap when I was a little kid and we would watch Beast Wars together.
This story is very sweet and funny.
Well, there is technically a fifth one she can mention: Pony Trek: The Animated Series.
So Velvet is basically DC Fontana?
Wonder what Spike thought of "Block's Brain." Brain and brain, WHAT IS BRAIN?!?!
So many Trekkie references. I bow to you.
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I prefer to think of her as the female version of Ronald D. Moore. I believe DC Fontana only has one writing credit on DS9, having done mainly work for TOS and early TNG.
Oh gods the puns...
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You might wanna wait with that conclusion until after you've read Chapter 2.
I hate to ask this but... is this Story dead? I mean I haven't seen an Update for quite some Time
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I do plan on continuing it eventually. But at the moment, I'm not really sure where to go with it. So far I haven't left any of my original stories on this site half finished. And I don't intend this one to be the first, even if it takes some time.
“Let's have a cup of tea, dear. I'll tell you the story of how Spike hit puberty. We became very good friends with the Canterlot Fire Department that summer.” Talk it.
Star Trek Enterprise is awesome and ain't nopony gonna take that from me
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Well, having seen Discovery now, I can happily concede that Enterprise is no longer the worst Trek show in my book.
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You forget that Enterprise has "Dear Doctor", which is scientifically at least as bad as "Threshold", is morally worse, and portrays itself as depicting an in-universe impetus for the Prime Directive (which was already unfairly seen as an excuse for 'fiddling while Rome burns').
Rant spoilered for plot details: Even more so now, when we are at the cusp of being able to at least partially repair fatal-in-infancy genetic diseases, saying that having a terminal genetic disease makes you an evolutionary dead end to be replaced by a more fit species is "a fundamental scientific principle" is simply monstrous. And there is a difference between not being "here to play God" and saying you "didn't come out here to play God" while doing exactly that (as for Phlox, he who wants to let nature run its course without interference because "evolution" demands it, the entire point of his profession is to not let nature run its course; we had doctors on Earth who thought like he did, and they conducted the Tuskegee "study").
Something that I could accept as actually not "playing God" would have been if the resolution was something like "this can treat the symptoms and help you survive, but the cause is a genetic disease in this gene so you'll need to edit your genome if you want to cure it, and that has to be your decision because it's your species, not mine".
Enterprise bastardised beloved elements of the prior series in the name of continuity, while having just as much of the "feelings in space" (and the resolution of "Dear Doctor" revolves entirely around Archer's and Phlox's feelings: We promised to help you, but we decided that helping you feels too much like "playing God" and interfering with the natural order, so we're going to let you die to spare our feelings) as Voyager and being no more about exploration.