Star Trek: Enterprise and crazy plots

[dbskyler]

I was flipping through TV channels tonight, and I happened to randomly come across Scott Bakula in the back of a truck with a bunch of Nazis. At first I thought it must be some episode of Quantum Leap that I hadn't seen before, but no, it turned out to be Star Trek: Enterprise. With Nazis. But not just any old Nazis. These Nazis were being led by aliens who want to change Earth's past. Yes, alien Nazis.

I didn't watch enough of it to tell you more, although I did wonder if there was a weathered Kansas farmer Time Lord* lurking around somewhere.

* An unfilmed crazy plot from Doctor Who, with bits available from a tape of Paul McGann's audition. There's a weathered Kansas farmer Time Lord, the Doctor, and Nazis. Presumably regular Nazis, not alien Nazis.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

There's a weathered Kansas farmer Time Lord, the Doctor, and Nazis. Presumably regular Nazis, not alien Nazis.

I don't think anyone could count on it, frankly. It is a very crazy plot... :-)

[arcanetrivia]

I stopped watching Enterprise somewhere in or possibly after the third season (which I hear is somewhat of a shame because apparently the fourth and last season was a bit less crazy) but my recollection is something like, "If you thought they did crazy shit with time travel in Voyager, wait till you get a load of this." There was some big arc with a "Temporal Cold War"? Memory Alpha is domain-not-found-ing at the moment so I can't go look (wonder if it's the same big DDoS thing going on right now that's affecting Twitter and a whole bunch of things).

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

The crazy thing is, I normally love time travel stories -- I'm a fan of Doctor Who, for god's sake -- and I just couldn't watch this episode because it was getting so ridiculous. Although I gave up on Enterprise in the first season because I didn't like the characters or, well, any of the episodes, actually. (And I did like Voyager!)

"Temporal Cold War"? Eek. I don't know why they didn't just stick to their premise of exploring the beginning of the Federation. They could have struck a note halfway between TOS (straight-up exploration) and DS9 (political intrigue), but no, they had to go crazy with the plots, like they were afraid the standard Star Trek formula wasn't interesting anymore.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I think the episode would have been improved with a weathered Kansas Time Lord, though.

Well, maybe not, but at least it would have amused me.

[clocketpatch]

I tapped out at the theme song lyrics (which is petty, but given the reviews of the series proper, probably the right decision)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yes, the right decision.

[john_amend_all]

If you ever feel inclined to watch any, the In A Mirror, Darkly two-parter has its own credit sequence without singing :-)

The only other episode I'd recommend is Future Tense, as an artefact from the days when Doctor Who was an obscure, long-cancelled British show fit only to be strip-mined for concepts.