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To: KevinDavis
Just let me take this opportunity to repeat something I have said since the first episode of STE. What a totally lost opportunity. The producers -- and maybe the writers -- of this show should be shot. The potential for excellent SciFi was limitless, despite the casting of Scott Barfula.

The pretext was humans venturing into deep space for the first time. Each episode should have been about discovery and wonder and even fear of meeting new species. The crew of this Enterprise met new beings on a weekly basis with all the excitement of a 20-year bureaucrat coming to work yet again on another Monday. No wonder, no "gee whiz," nothing but, "oh, another alien. whoopie." The episode that came close to it was when the two crew members got stranded in a shuttle and almost died. One of the few episodes where the writer was allowed to make the story about the people and another stupid "cowboys and aliens" shoot 'em up. The only mystery to this series was how did they make Jolene Blalock's breasts defy gravity? TV will be a much bigger wasteland with her gone from it.

What a waste.
15 posted on 04/22/2005 6:31:31 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: Lee'sGhost

". . .and NOT another stupid "cowboys and aliens" shoot 'em up."


17 posted on 04/22/2005 6:34:13 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: Lee'sGhost; All
The problem was the stupid temporal cold war and the Xindi arc. Had they gone this route, this would not be the last season.
19 posted on 04/22/2005 6:35:29 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: Lee'sGhost; Tealc
The only mystery to this series was how did they make Jolene Blalock's breasts defy gravity? TV will be a much bigger wasteland with her gone from it.

She occasionally guests as "Ishta" on SG-1, y'know.

You're right about the wasted potential of the show. I was pulling for a "Romulan Wars" plotline that would've tied-in with TOS, but noooooo....

82 posted on 04/22/2005 7:58:37 AM PDT by Charles Martel
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