{"id":3609,"date":"2020-06-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/remembering-star-trek-enterprises-much-maligned-finale-15-years-later\/"},"modified":"2020-06-07T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T15:00:00","slug":"remembering-star-trek-enterprises-much-maligned-finale-15-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remembering-star-trek-enterprises-much-maligned-finale-15-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering &#8216;Star Trek: Enterprise&#8217;s Much-Maligned Finale, 15 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Remembering &#8216;Star Trek: Enterprise&#8217;s Much-Maligned Finale, 15 Years Later<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>Between <em>Star Trek: Discovery,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Picard<\/em> and the newest forthcoming <em>Star Trek<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, all on streamer CBS All Access, it\u2019s a wondrous time to be a Trekker. Fifteen years ago, however, it seemed the sci-fi franchise was ending on a sour note, leaving the airwaves for the first time in 18 years with the series finale of <em>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em>, which turned out to be an episode many fans and critics flat-out <em>hated<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese Are the Voyages\u2026,\u201d the series&#8217; 98th episode, written by <em>Enterprise<\/em> co-creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, aired on May 13, 2005. It opens with Capt. Archer (Scott Bakula) piloting the <em>Enterprise<\/em> (the NX-01) home to Earth in 2161 for the ship\u2019s decommissioning, while gearing up to give a speech at the signing of the Federation Charter. But when the voice of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>\u2019s Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) freezes the story, viewers realize that the <em>Enterprise<\/em>\u2019s final journey is just a holodeck simulation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GRhYcnxiaCo\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>In fact, it is the year 2370, and Commander Riker\u2014troubled by the events of the <em>TNG<\/em> episode \u201cThe Pegasus\u201d\u2014is revisiting the events of the year 2161 at the urging of <em>TNG<\/em>\u2019s Lieutenant Commander Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis).<\/p>\n<p>Riker watches as Archer, en route to Earth, gets roped into a rescue mission that ultimately claims the life of Commander <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trip<\/a> Tucker (Connor Trinneer). Through these holodeck visions, Riker finds inspiration for how to proceed in the <em>Next Generation<\/em> timeline.<\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVtcdpnzAu4\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> TV history is rife with polarizing series finales\u2014think <em>Sopranos<\/em>\u2019 abrupt cut to black, <em>Lost<\/em>\u2019s flash-sideways reveal, <em>St. Elsewhere<\/em>\u2019s snow globe\u2014but the decision to end <em>Enterprise<\/em> with a frame story centering on <em>TNG<\/em> characters was understandably maddening for viewers. William Riker and Deanna Troi may be important characters in <em>Star Trek<\/em> canon, but <em>Enterprise<\/em> fans deserved a finale devoted to the characters they spent four seasons following, not an episode devoted to Riker as he learns a retconned lesson he never once mentions on <em>TNG<\/em>. It smacks of a stunt-casting ploy, one crafted more to generate buzz than to satisfy fans. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>arently, the episode would have capped off Season 4 even if the show were renewed for another season. As a season finale, \u201cThese Are the Voyages\u2026\u201d probably would have worked\u2014and fans would have even gotten more time with Trip, since his death would have still been years in the future when the show returned for Season 5. As a series finale, though, the episode robbed viewers of closure.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the holodeck contrivance and the nostalgic appearances of Riker and Troi turned off fans and critics alike. \u201cThat framing story, which is a self-serving epitaph on the part of <em>TNG<\/em> producers Berman and Braga, doesn\u2019t do the <em>Enterprise<\/em> cast justice,\u201d <em>Sci Fi Weekly&#8217;<\/em>s Patrick Lee said at the time.\u00a0\u201cIt reduces them to the status of lab rats, and Riker\u2019s supercilious observation is condescending \u2026 It\u2019s not surprising that the epilogue for the weakest <em>Trek <\/em>series ended up so anticlimactic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time ever in <em>Trek<\/em> history, a series ends with holographic versions of the real characters fans spent years following,\u201d Phil Pirrello wrote for a <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em> retrospective last month. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking how much wrong they managed to pack into one normal-sized episode of television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fan reactions at the time ranged from neutral to negative. \u201cThat\u2019s how <em>Trek<\/em> comes to an end after a run of 18 consecutive years\u2014with a somewhat ponderous whimper that still manages to show its self-affection,\u201d fan reviewer Jamahl Epsicokhan wrote after the episode aired. \u201cMaybe too much misdirected affection for <em>TNG<\/em>. And not enough for the characters we\u2019ve been watching for the past four seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yY-0gnl-vn0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"550\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Commenters on Epsicokhan\u2019s post, however, weren\u2019t so charitable\u2014and expressed vitriol toward Braga and Berman. \u201cIt was just a total mess,\u201d one wrote. \u201cWhy bring back two <em>TNG<\/em> characters? Why kill off Trip? Why set it years after the previous episode? The blame lies in the people who wrote the episode, responsible for [<em>Enterprise<\/em>\u2019s] failure in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wrote another, \u201cWhat exactly did the cast of <em>Enterprise<\/em> do to deserve this finale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some of the cast members were wondering the same thing. Jolene Blalock, who played Vulcan Commander on the show, called the finale \u201cappalling\u201d in an interview with the <em>Toronto Star<\/em>. Anthony Montgomery, a.k.a. Ensign Travis Mayweather, told <em>TV Zone Special<\/em>, \u201cI feel there could have been a more effective way to wrap things up for our show as well as the franchise as a whole. It just seemed to take a little bit away from what the <em>Enterprise<\/em> cast and crew worked so diligently to achieve over the past four years, do you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Frakes admitted in 2008 that \u201ceverybody probably\u201d feels the episode was a disservice to <em>Enterprise<\/em>. \u201cThe theory was it was a valentine to the fans,\u201d he added in an <em>IF Magazine<\/em> interview, \u201cbut the reality is it was a bit of a stretch to have us shut down their show.\u201d (Less than a year later, he said the episode \u201cstinks.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Braga defended the episode at the time, but at a 2017 panel at the Star Trek Las Vegas convention, he gave fans a <em>mea culpa<\/em>. \u201cI thought it was the coolest thing ever when we were writing it, the idea of doing a \u2018lost episode\u2019 of <em>The Next Generation<\/em>, but they\u2019re going to the holodeck to look back at <em>Enterprise<\/em>,\u201d he said at the time, per <em>TrekMovie.com<\/em>. \u201cRick and I thought was a great sendoff to <em>Star Trek<\/em>, and it didn\u2019t work out so well \u2026 It was a kind of a slap in the face to the <em>Enterprise<\/em> actors. I heard it from everybody. It was the only time Scott Bakula was ever mean to me. I regret it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even a transcription site prefaces its \u201cThese Are the Voyages\u2026\u201d transcript with a warning: \u201cTranscriber\u2019s note \u2026 Worst <em>Trek<\/em> Episode Ever!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Star Trek Ship Starship Enterprise NCC 1701\" data-aspectratio=\"895\/570\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/enterprise-star-trek-copy-895x570.png\" data- height=\"570\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\"  width=\"895\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and producer J.J. Abrams reinvigorated the franchise with the 2009 film <em>Star Trek<\/em>, which honored the original story while finding a new \u201cfinal frontier\u201d in an alternate timeline\u2014and kicked off a $1 billion big-screen trilogy. And in 2017, the franchise returned to the small screen with <em>Discovery<\/em>, the first of many CBS All Access <em>Star Trek<\/em> series on the air or in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Now that \u201cThese Are the Voyages\u2026\u201d isn\u2019t the last story Trekkers will get from the franchise, perhaps they\u2019ll come to view the episode as Sirtis did in 2005: \u201ca good episode\u201d but not \u201ca good <em>last<\/em> episode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What did you think about the <em>Enterprise<\/em> series ender? 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