Okay, after the lackluster premiere, I was finally ready to walk away from Enterprise… just like I walked away from Voyager after a season or two. After the buzz on this forum, though, I caught Sunday's rerun of that "Death Star" episode and was marginally impressed.

But it's sure starting to look like a fluke. Just like the "Automated Repair Station" ep from S2. And one episode a season is hardly reason to tune in week after week.

The paint-by-numbers acting and direction, paint-drying pacing, and uncomfortable junior-high-level T&A high jinks, however, are perfectly good reasons to tune out. The only thing Enterprise seems truly good at… is reminding me how much I miss Farscape.

Hell, I'm always going top give first preference to Ed anyways. I just can't believe how much it pains me to finally "throw in the towel" on Trek.

Isn’t most T&A (that doesn’t expose the yummy bits) on the “junior-high-level”?

No Tivo record for me either. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), I also had it taped from my non-Tivo box.

I now have two Season Passes that look identical. Except that the old one says there are no future episodes, and the new one says 3. I assume that one of those is for the Sunday repeat. It’ll be interesting to see what hijinks will happen next week.

One poster on the Tivo board said he had Bacula and “Enterprise” in his wish list and didn’t miss this one. I don’t know if the show is worth going to that much trouble, especially since there’s always Sunday.

As others have said, I think Tivo is trying to tell us something. ;)

Excuse me, I'm supposed to be working now not rolling out of my chair laughing. Thanks. :)

Yeah, me too. I'm supposed to be a Star Trek fan (trekker, trekkie, whatever). I actually go to the conventions so I feel an obligation to try and keep up with each Trek series but they are making it unbearably difficult. I gave up on Voyager after the second season and Enterprise the middle of the first season. I'm going to give it a try though, hopefully the episodes will get better.

It's that sense of optimism in the face of impossible odds that characterized Trek for so many years. *sigh*

Strangely, I think those are the exact points where I gave up on those respective series as well. I caught maybe 2-3 'random' episodes of Voyager later in the run. And I think I may have watched an Enterprise last year. But I'm done. I'll just watch my DVDs of the good shows.

I have no Tivo to help me in missing this, and my damn VCR recorded it! Grr! :)

OK, I just watched last night's episode and was not impressed for many of the same reasons already stated. One thing I noticed is that in the first three episodes this season, the music had drastically improved over the last few seasons, but last night, it was suck! It didn't enhance any of the action, and almost seemed to drag down what little action there was.

at least this episode had a little more substance than the T&A previews suggested. I wanted more sex slave and hoshi though
and now that we got more looks at the reptiles all I can say is, Galaxy Quest
any ideas on what type of rifles the marines have?

good episode. more people die. that's what needs to happen every week. more murdering. kill some innocents.

I didn't realize Star Wars invented that.

we know for a fact they're going to the starboard airlock
then only send 3 people

OK finally saw this episode. I didn't love it and I didn't hate it. Thankfully it wasn't the blatant ripoff of the TNG ep "The Perfect Mate" which is how the promos made it look. At least the writers are trying to keep the arch going though where in the hell where the soldier guys when the ship's being overrun with Xindi? Did Archer drop them off on some other planet or are they just useless at this point?

I was soooo excited when I first heard the premise of Enterprise, but it's been all down hill since then (when I heard the premise!).

I guess the whole temporal cold war thing is being put on the back burner, huh?

Couldn't they at least pretent that some of these aliens don't speak English.

You really don't know how they explained that aliens speak English?

I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I was looking forward to seeing this "military" in action, but they only send a few (guess the rest were off duty) and then they reteat at the first sign of hostile fire.

Veeeeerrrrrrry disappointing.

But, they do pretend. The "grasshopper" Xindi and the aquatic Xindi both speak an alien language requiring sub-titles.

Isn’t the target audience too young/stoopid to read? -eek-