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Originally Posted by Alanmelon
What are your opinions on why it's gone wrong, and what would you change?
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Well a few quick points:
1) Continuity? What continuity?
The writers seem to think (or not care) that viewers have *memories* and tend to *remember* what has gone before, even those who aren't die hard fans who can recall every word of every episode, so we get major contradictions between what we've been told previously and what is being said now.
2) Star Drek: The Same Old Plots
How many times can they ring the changes on a storyline they've already used several times in different series.
Just recently in Enterprise (on Sky, but it's not really a spoiler) we had the crew needing to get through a "dangerous nebula" and the only way to do it was for the Doctor to put everyone to sleep (the Doctor was conveniently immune). But, hang on a moment, didn't Voyager do *exactly* the same thing in one of their episodes? Did they really think people wouldn't notice??
3) The weapons and technology.
Just *how* come everyone that the Enterprise crew has to fight against has weapons that, conveniently, can damage the ship, but usually not quite seriously enough that they can't fix it?
The NX 01 doesn't have deflector shields, yet, incredibly, enemy weaponry isn't powerful enough to do too much damage. Is it *really* credible that every race is practically at the same level of technological development?
Oh, and by TNG it seems that everyone has transporters, but not in Enterprise etc etc etc...
4) The aliens.
Despite being at this for god knows how many years, most aliens are *still* two-dimensional cliched cardboard cut-outs.
That's a few things to be going on with...!
Addendum: PS Towny, I'd rep you for your post if I could!