Even Jonathan Frakes did not like the finale, calling it an "unpleasant memory" and felt awkward while doing it. Frakes even mention that he felt it was an insult to Scott Bakula and the show and that the show was taken off the air too soon before it found its footing. If Trip was going to die, he should have died alone trying to fix the engines in order to keep the Enterprise from exploding. His last words would have been coaxing the engines to stay together until they can get to a starbase or friendly planet. The scene ends with Archer trying to contact engineering to congratulate Trip and panning upward to see the exterior of the Enterprise and a hole where engineering used to be. I still like Enterprise, but I detest the finale, though not the performances or actors.

Everyone: WTF is this last episode of Enterprise? Did this story line actually happen, or is this just a figment of Riker’s fantasy fanfic? Jonathan Frakes: It didn’t happen. We made it up.

I remember an interview with Blalock where she said in no uncertain terms (including a lot of four letter terms) how pissed off she was with the finale and how most of the cast felt the same way.

Scott Bakula got screwed twice in series finales: "Enterprise" and "Quantum Leap". Two series that could have had it all, but instead fell completely apart on the last episode.

I’m STILL mad about the Enterprise finale being a standard TNG holodeck episode barely guest-starring the Enterprise crew. I get that it wasn’t the most popular Trek series, but the people who did enjoy it and had followed it this far deserved better for its ending.

Steve Shives: "Has the entire series taken place inside the holodeck aboard the Enterprise-D?" Benny Russell: "IT WAS REEEEAAAAALLLLLLL!!!"

Even after 15 years after seeing the finale, I still feel angry thinking about it. I came to like the show in the last seasons, the episode Home being my absolute favorite while whishing for a different ending. Home and Terra Prime were dealing with things I had to deal with in my own life and made me absoluty relate to Trip and T'Pol. As a result, TATV felt like a slap in the face, a punch in the gut, an absolute insult. The ENT crew and the Trip and T'Pol relationship deserved a much more better and optimistic ending.

The series finale was an insult to Enterprise fans

The only acceptable last words for trip: "Keep your shirt on!"

The scene between Tripp and Reed was genuinely beautiful, summing up the hope and trepidation of the end, or beginning, of a new Trek. "They'll probably build another Enterprise before long." "I imagine." "Won't be the same, though." "That's alright." It's so simple and brilliant that I'm convinced Manny Cotto hit B&B with a baseball bat and handed the scene to the crew on a napkin.

As a TNG/DS9 fan, season 4 of Enterprise holds it's own as one of the best of the Star Trek franchise...until the series finale happened.

"lackluster ratings" - today, cable stations would die to have the viewership that Enterprise had. I always thought that ST:E was a decent show that dealt with the knotty problems of writing story lines with already established "canon". It's a shame that the series didn't end properly.

Trip's death was meaningless. He died by dealing with some random mooks who were barely seen before and were not central to the story, plus his actions were utterly needless: they dealt with way worse boarding than four guys with a standard laser gun. I believe they wanted to pull a Spock in ST2 (because the episode needed ANOTHER bit of lore fanservice), but failed.

Rick Berman: "I'm a fantastic showrunner. I've always done what was best for this franchise. I'm not a sleazy hack!" Jonathan Frakes: "No way." Jonathan Frakes again: "It's a total fabrication." Jonathan Frakes one more time: "It's an urban legend... that never happened." Jonathan Frakes one last time: "No."

"A valentine to Star Trek fans"?? It's like tmy partner sent me a valentine explaining in detail how much I'm not as cool as their ex.

The only part about this episode that I liked was for Riker to play the Chef, until then an unseen character. I briefly hoped that the Chef was actually Riker gone time-travelling, an actually interesting plot line.

Sometimes I wonder if all Star Trek series are actucally simulations inside a primitive 2D holodeck called "Television"

The thing that made me absolutely sick was there was this build up for Typol and Trip to finally truly express their feelings about eachother and say they love each other and eventually bang it out have a kid of there own. It is sad. this show was fun and I loved it. My hats off to the cast. They made me fall in love with this show not the writers. They deserved better.

I recently watched Enterprise after completely missing it when it originally aired. I loved it. I can imagine how it may not have played well when it aired, so soon after the others, but I think that overall it is brilliant as a stand alone science fiction series. Granted, the last episode was disappointing, but the fourth season was excellent and overall the series has become my favorite of the Star Trek universe. All the hatred? I don't get it.

I really wished we could have heard Archer's speech. That would have improved the episode and maybe even helped motivate Riker instead of the whole Trip thing. Though I was happy to see Shran again, it was the highlight of the episode, he was one of the best secondary characters in that show

Oh golly, where to begin. I'll start out with this - I agree with your assessment. I was an actual longterm fan of Star Trek in all its iterations when this finale aired. Though my parents thought it was silly and didn't expose me to the original series when I was a child, I began watching The Next Generation when it debuted as a young teenager and was introduced to the older show by Trekker friends. I came of age through the time TNG, DS9 and Voyager aired, and like you, I'm a Niner. What gets lost for folks viewing Enterprise in the decades since its debut is the context of time. The first several episodes were already in the can when it came time to debut. It's not Trek's fault that debut was to be in the second week of September 2001. Those of us eager for more Trek at that time had sat through the finale of Voyager and been smacked in the face with promo after promo about the newer, more exciting series to come... a series that should have debuted the week of 9-11. When it did air a bit later, the world it had been conjured in was gone. We didn't feel the optimism. We only felt the sinking malaise and residual shock of our 20th century views of our place in the world, shattered by an act of terrorism. Indeed, Enterprise's early episodes could have been a relief from any other troublesome time, but played out in odd contrast to the winds of change blowing, the War on Terror, anthrax attack scares and an overall survivor's guilt spread through its core audience. The production crew wanted so much to grasp onto the millenium-approaching joy behind The Next Generation - when they would have been well-minded to heed more the flaws and realism of the Deep Space Nine era. DS9 was early in its after-conclusion syndication run, and for many of those in my Trek-loving circles, it was DS9 that made far more sense in a post-9-11 world. You see the creators of Enterprise finally get this coming into the thrid season of Enterprise - not only with its terror attack on Florida but the entire swing of the Xindi war. The grip of uncertainty and the introduction of an entirely new concept in the franchise, tying in The Expanse and the Temporal Time War together, creating new species that were far beyond the glued-to-the-head prosthetics of past shows, and the destruction and rebuilding of the psyche you see primarily with Archer and T'Pol over the course of that year, broke new ground for Trek and broke away from the Roddenbery model for good. These episodes shared the stories of believable characters who reacted to the changes in their circumstances. Like DS9, the characters grew into new people, not perfect but certainly credible. It was too late. Or, maybe, too early. We've seen so many grimdark shows in the years in-between that grew extraordinary audiences (Battlestar Galactica, the first season of Discovery and even Farscape to a point, come to mind). If Enterprise had been reworked earlier on, or if it had not had the misfortune of debuting when it did, it might have prospered. The thougth of timing is similar to how Discovery and The Orville were received when both first arrived a few years ago. Many TNG-era fans clung to The Orville because it reminded them of just how much fun Next Generation was (particularly after TNG's first, sometimes cringe-inducing season) with humor and new concepts. The Orville was made in particular to pay homage to Picard's Enterprise and era, and did so with clean new sets, new ideas and so much interpersonal interaction, substituting 80s and 90s pop culture for the endless array of string ensemble concerts and dramatic presentations the Enterprise-D hosted on a fantastically frequent basis. Discovery, on the other hand, was hoping to appeal to the grimdark shows that were and are still popular in our 21st century mire. Don't get me wrong - I love both shows, but they have been night-and-day with each other (though after the progression at the end of the last season of The Orville, I'm curious to see how things happen - and whether MacFarlane is playing his version of the Borg card/Best of Both Worlds pivot like TNG pioneered). By the time Enterprise reached the second episode of its fourth season, the actors already knew the show was ending and most of us fans did, too. It was at that point that the fan service truly blossomed. The backstory episodes on the Andorians and Vulcan were excellent, and the Mirror universe episodes were made of so much fan-powered awesome. The T-Pol/Trip stuff got silly, but that didn't keep us from enjoying Brent Spiner's scenery-chewing run with the Augments. The good episodes in the last season gave us all hope. We were still waiting for some sort of salvation for the series, like a move to another network aka Stargate SG-1, or a wrap-up like Farscape's The Peacekeeper Wars. I remember standing in my living room and screaming at the TV about two thirds of the way through the final episode of Enterprise. It felt so faked, so much like a slap in the face to all of us die-hard fans. When it was over, the general consensus was that Trek was dead and we all needed to console ourselves that there were at least the movies, five series, books and comic books and fan fictions to relive and enjoy. Too bad Trek was done with TV. The announcement that the "new" Trek movies would be a reboot (before they came around to "alternate universe" version) of Trek seemed like a really large nail in our Trek coffin. It's good that Trek has made a comeback. Despite my initial television-directed hollering at the first few episodes of Discovery, I have come to love that series and see it as Trek. Rewatching the entire two seasons has helped. Folks forget that there were a lot of duds in the original series' run, that the first season of TNG and much of the first two seasons of DS9 were subprime, and that a LOT of Voyager (particularly anything to do with the Kazon) was downright awful. Enterprise gets a lot of hate because of its theme song and the time it took to react to the era it lived in, both in the Trek timeline and in the 21st century. But it had extraordinary characters and a neat premise. Like Voyager's "Threshold," I think it should be considered non-canon and disregarded. One other thing. I was so hoping that Rene Auberjonois would have been able to return as Odo in Discovery's third season - out of all of the characters (outside of Guinan) that could conceivably be part of that series, he seemed most likely. Now, though, with his demise and with the talk of other new series that could be developed, I would love to see a cameo of a well-aged Admiral Archer in a Captain Pike-led Enterprise show. Scott Bakula is way too good an actor to skip this possibility.

An Enterprise / Quantum Leap crossover would have been the best thing ever!

The final episode was clearly awful, but I feel like the show in general was unjustifiably underrated. In particular the character of T'Pol seems to have been dismissed maybe because the actress was attractive. Her performance of a Vulcan is pretty much bang on all the way through (as was Gary Graham's).

What makes all this even sadder is that terra prime already was a very good, fitting finale for the series.

Whenever I rewatch this series I just ditch the very last episode. Terra Prime works just fine as the last episode. Could have easily had a full 7 seasons as the later half of the series really found its feet but hey 🤷‍♂️

I have always had a soft spot for ENT. I love the early setting, the (ostensibly) lower tech level, and the overall "frontier" feel of the series. Also, because it was made last, the effects are some of the best in Trek. The Ensign's Log rocks, btw.

I was actually very upset when they canceled Enterprise, and also upset when they killed Trip

"If you've never died before, you're gonna find it trippy."

I need a fan fic of someone on the Enterprise J holodeck inserting themselves into the events of "the pegasus" and they watch Riker interact with the NX-01 crew.

It's not too late to have a Enterprise-CSI New Orleans crossover that will smooth things over.

Its equivalent to the Dallas "dream sequence" episode, except it turns the entire series into a dream sequence. Its dismissive.

It actually felt more like a weak TNG episode than a series finale for Enterprise. While I wasn't an Enterprise fan, the series deserved better.

Exactly, it should have been post Nemesis. Have it be Riker struggling in his first command looking to his inspiration for good command.

On the upside, its perfect timing to revive the series set after the signing of the Federation Charter. Bring the whole cast back, if possible. Revamp the ship a bit (since Enterprise could get a refit to Columbia specs), add a few new crew and do a Romulan cold war story. Job done. Sure, Scott Bakula is a little longer in the tooth now - but Patrick Stewart is showing us that older guys can still be kick ass heroes. With some good writers we could have a great show - even if it only lasts one more season I'd be happy. Anything to erase the current final episode from my memory.

“Everybody dresses in pyjamas and nobody says a thing about it” They poked fun at that in Time’s Arrow, when Data gets asked if he was “thrown out in the middle of the night” when he suddenly appears in 1890s San Francisco in uniform.

Making the protagonist of your series finale be a character that has never been in any previous episode of your series is never a good idea.

The episode would have been a perfectly serviceable *penultimate* episode. Setting up the wrap-ups of the character arcs, in a low-budget precursor to the grand finale. Have Riker step off at the end, his journey of self-discovery within the episode resolved, *as the events reach a critical cliffhanger moment*, and have him give the instruction to "Delete Program", then fade back to 2161, where the events continue from that point.

To me, this episode reeks of this attitude of, "Oh god you guys liked TNG, right? If we throw some TNG in there you guys will like this, right?" which I kinda feel has been present in star trek to varying degrees ever since, well, TNG. Anyway, I am kinda curious - you did a script re-write of Voyager's finale a while ago, any plans/ideas about rewriting this one?

The only redeeming thing in this episode for me is the last few seconds where Picard, Kirk, and Archer get to recite the classic intro. Also you should redo the finale for Enterprise like you did for Voyager. That's still my favorite video you've done!

My reaction on seeing this finale for the first time: What’s going on? Why are we six years ahead now? What did I miss? Why is Riker here? Why is this a holodeck episode? Who wrote this? Who signed off on this shit? Why am I still watching? The show wasn’t great but it’s last couple of series were a marked improvement. That last episode though? Pure shit.

Who got the Tommy Westphall reference without Googling? I salute you.

The best, most well developed character in Enterprise was Porthos.

"Enterprise" was to an extent my introduction to the universe, coming home to reruns of it after school. While it missed the mark in a lot of places, some of their episodes offered something that really none of the other shows had a chance to do, describing how humanity goes from one species poking their heads out into the galaxy to a leading member of a galactic community. And then this ending hits, and it drops the ball just short of the finish line. Archer's speech at the end would have been very hard to write, but from the very first episode that's where the show was heading, especially given its time-travel plots that kept hinting at his role in the future. If they wanted to frame it as part of the future, that's fine. But they could have at the very least given the speech and made it someone watching who needed to hear it - as you suggest, Riker looking for inspiration, or even better some of the outsider characters of TNG or DS9 trying to understand their place in the Federation through its founding. At least something to make "Enterprise" mean something.

Trip's final line should've been "You've been Tripped up"

Season 3 with the xindi was quite good, and gritty in parts. But yeah, the closer was such a let down.

A show that was just getting good when it got cancelled. The ending(both of them) is/are terrible.

The ending legit made me cry. Trip killed for no reason, an episode of TNG slotted into an episode of Enterprise, the entire thing was SO BAD. Like painfully bad. This was the last Star Trek series I watched together with my Uncle before he died. We used to watch the old Star Trek movies and TNG re-runs together but he died before this series was finished. He never saw the ending but I feel like it would have broke his heart too. Re-watching it as adult and seeing this series I loved to watch with my uncle end so badly was.... crushing.

I always imagined that this was a really long experience for Sam Beckett as well. I think that would have been a really cool cross-over moment, BUT still wouldn't have cheapened anything.

I would hardly say after four 'ehhh' seasons. 1 and 2 fair enough, but Season 3 is highly thought of as Voyager done right, and Season 4 is at least on a par with 3 as a whole, excepting this final episode.

I was pretty upset by this episode when I first saw it. Enterprise was far from perfect, but I did like it and I thought it was starting to grow its beard. The finale was just so disappointing. Now, I love Riker and TNG, but, this was supposed to be the Enterprise cast's time to shine. One last hurrah for them. But it wasn't. Also, killing Tripp off in the last episode was kind of crappy. The guy went through a lot throughout the series. Probably more than any of the others. He was the O'Brien of Enterprise. To not give him a happily ever after is just kind of mean-spirited.

I didn't hate the show at all, it had its moments and overall I found it enjoyable.....until the final episode. I'll never forgive that mistake lol. They really did ENT dirty.

Berman said These Are The Voyages would be "a love letter to Star Trek fans." Instead, it was a drunk dial.

When William Frakes (Riker) is saying the fans won't like it and is an insult to the actors because the focus is gonna be on Riker, you should know it's a bad idea.

I remember watching Enterprise and it kept nagging me that Scott Bakula seemed familiar, when I was watching Quantum Leap on TV and it finally hit me and yeah, he is a very talented actor, especially having worked on a show like Quantum Leap where in cases he had to act like a totally different character each episode.

I never saw the finale as quite that bad first time around, but after hearing you explain it, I now have no choice but to agree. Being turned to the B-story for your own season finale is a kick in the sensitives that this cast definitely didn't deserve. Thank you for opening my eyes!

For me, "Enterprise" ended with 'Terra Prime'.

I've never told this anyone, but when I first saw that episode I thought it was fantastic and I actually loved the tie in with TNG.

If Enterprise had gone in the direction of forming the Federation from the get go, it would have worked really well. We know even in Kirk's time there was the department of temporal investigations. All the temporal cold war stuff would kinda give a reason for that being there. Like, maybe the first few three seasons could have been devoted to developing a morality around time travel. The next four seasons could have been devoted to the Romulan War, where Vulcans, Andorians, Humans and Tellerites have to stand together to survive. The Romulan War could have had some amazing space battles. It would have also explained why Federation Ships all used Earth Starfleets ship chassis. Like maybe, talk about how the races had to share technology and build ships together.

I never understand the issue with the final, i allways thought Terra prime was a nice final episode ...

Hello, Mr. Shives. I would like to tell you that I find your "Trek, Actually" episodes very interesting and very entertaining. These videos are very informative concerning your own personal point of view of Star Trek and they are also very funny. My favorite episode so far is "Who is actually Star Trek's most reckless time traveller?" So I wish you all the best for 2020, stay healthy and keep up the good work. Thumbs up!

Looking toward to the rewrite of the Enterprise finale - the Voyager rewrite was really fun to watch.

Personally, the only thing I liked about this episode was the closing seconds, with the montage of different generations of Enterprise. That, at least, was the correct way to close the final episode. Everything else was garbage to me.

Enterprise flopped due to several reasons: 1) CBS' CEO did not want a Sci-fi show taking a prime tv slot (6PM to 9PM) 2) Rick Berman thought having a temporal cold war plot would make Enterprise different from TNG, DS9, and Voyager 3) Along with #2, S1 and S2 played too slow with the temporal cold war plot that no one was invested in it 4) Xindi plot was lackluster and most of S3 was wasted because of it 5) Romulans were introduced too late to Enterprise to save the show

The funny thing is the final episode of Enterprise got me to watch TNG. I had no idea who Riker and Troi were as the only Trek I watched regularly for the longest time was DS9. So having finally binged Enterprise all the way through (I abandoned it early in it's original run) I started watching TNG.

2:40 : I'm confused; could somebody explain the reference here? 22:14 : And here is one of the main reason I liked Enterprise. That last season they were actually using concepts that were created in past shows, and expanding on them. We got to see one of the most interesting elements, the 'Children of Khan' as I call them, again, they were working towards the Romulan/Earth war (while sticking with the conceit that we never saw their faces), and even gave us an explanation for the running joke of why Klingons looked different (which I loved, I don't care what anyone says ^_^). I even think that 'Discovery' payed some homage to this last season, with Empress Georgiou, who can be seen as a descendant of Empress Hoshi Sato (from the episode where she took control of the future tech ship and declared herself so).

I didn't watch much of Enterprise when it was on the air. Later on, I tried to watch it on Netflix. I got about seven episodes in and tapped out. I hardly even remember it. I had no emotional investment in the end of the series as a result of that. ...Until now. Damn it, Steve. Thanks though.

As someone who watch TNG after finishing Enterprise I was very confused during this episode. "Who are these people? Oh I guess they're people from the future? Why?" A story can have fan service but not if that means the story doesn't stand on it's own merits without it.

Jolene Blalock aka T'Pol said in an interview at the time that the finale was "appalling". I agree with her 100%. I actually liked the 2 part episode before it titled "Terra Prime", that actually would've been a much better end to the series compared to what they gave us. Also, Tripp's death was pointless. They dealt with bigger threats than some random alien guys boarding the ship with guns. If they ever get a chance, which I doubt, they should retcon that death entirely and ignore that entire episode.

Before watching the vid, Steve, I would just like to say that I wish ST: ENTERPRISE had been given the green light for at least a 5th season...from what I understand, the producers and writers had plans to not only give the ship a refit so that it looked more like the Enterprise NCC1701, but also were planning on introducing the Romulans and the war that is talked about in TOS's "Balance of Terror"--which would have been a terrific idea. And with the addition, in Season 4, of Manny Colo ("Dexter," "24") as showrunner, executive producer, and writer, along with Judith and Garfield Reeves (New York Times bestselling authors and writers of many science fiction, horror, and techno-thriller novels ("Iceline," which Stephen King called "the best suspense novel of its kind since "The Hunt for Red October"), well-known for their many ST Universe novels as well as co-authoring books with William Shatner (the "TekWar" series), ST: ENTERPRISE was really finding its feet, addressing the history of the ST universe. I wish that CBS would bring back ENTERPRISE (as part of its ST streaming service) though I believe it would probably have to be with at least some new cast members, especially Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer, and follow up on these ideas.

Living witness on voyager show how a holodeck episode could be done

I hadn't thought of Riker inspiring T'Pol's behavior in the episode before, but you're absolutely right. That's an excellent point.

Sam Beckett leaping in to Captain Archer is actually a good idea :)

“You had no idea you wouldn’t make it back from this episode” lmao

I dunno. As flawed and weird "These Are the Voyages..." is, I've been able to watch it many times and enjoy it for it's weirdness. On the other had, I've been only able to sit through Voyager's "Endgame" once. "Endgame" is such a pathetically, formulaic, forgettable episode with a dramatic cheat at the end, it makes "These Are the Voyages..." look like "The City on the Edge of Forever". (Then again, I love TNG, and maybe that's the reason I've watched it many times)

I loved Enterprise. I felt genuinely insulted by the producers taking one of my favourite shows and ending with another in a long line of shitty hollowdeck episodes. This ruined the holodeck for me as a plot device. Meanwhile, Terra Prime would have been a decent finale. That was one of it's best. Loved your take on this. 🖖

If you had to have Riker watching the events, make it just for the signing, and only as a recording. To take inspiration from one of the first heroes of the Federation, to remind himself how hard the the NX-01 crew worked on the path that built what he now captains in service of, to reaffirm his commitment as he is starting out his time as a captain. And only do this in the last few minutes, with zooming in on the recording equipment as a transition to however Riker is watching the beginning of what he will seek to guard and elevate.

7 of 9 was the only character on Voyager that actually had an *arc* and Jeri Ryan acted the hell out of that arc all the way through

Originally, i never watch Enterprise because of all the talk of it being a shoehorned series to rewrite the history of the lore. But once i ran out of Star Trek to watch [except for TOS cause i still havent decided to try that] i did watch it, and despite some shitty choices and weird plotlines, i liked, it hell i even loved it, certainly more than Voyager, and i thought the finale was such a shitty ending but most of all, i HATED that Trip died. I had gotten really invested in the relationship that was developing and that just soured it for me, for that all to end, hell for it to start and end off-screen, then to end with no chance theyd be together offscreen after the show ended. Ugh. All in all, i really came to love the show and its characters and seeing the finale be this, not even a true send-off of the characters i came to love, was beyond frustrating.

29:50 Dammit. Now I cannot challenge/inspire you to do that kind of video again. That was so much fun! xD But I am looking forward to those videos. Especially your favorite Picard moment. He is after all my captain as well. Cheers man.

“You can all go straight to hell.” This was Berman and Braga talking to the fans.

LOL at "delightfully obsequious middle-manager" so you're saying that Weyoon works at the DMV?

When this ep aired back in the day... I too was laughing my ass off how bad the ep was, part of the reason being that I was NOT an Enterprise fan either, in fact I used to down on it quite a bit...however as time went on, especially after the Trek reboots with JJ's movies, I missed that era of Trek so much, I gave the show another rewatch when it came out on blu-ray and found myself appreciating it more than I thought, particularly season 3 aka the Xindi arc. Still my fave season of Enterprise! The show got done dirty by this finale.

I liked how they interfaced the formation of the federation and Star Fleet at the very end of the episode and series - sorta made things come full circle since it was a preface to TOS

Maybe T'pol actually had that conversation with the chef and Riker watched it before he stepped in to interact with her. I'm sure there was more going on than the freeze frame kiss knowing Rikers past holodeck experiences, that would've made a better episode.🧔👉👌👽

Reg walk in during the kiss?? I want LaForge to come in on that mess.

Enterprise is most memorable to me for the episodes that did voyager episodes better than voyager did. The human Wildwest colony of abducted humans is a more interesting take on the alien abduction caused human colony than Voyager's one with enterprise. In fact, season 3 in general, the whole being stuck, or you could say stranded, in unexplored space, was a good example of what Voyager should've been.

This wasn't just a bad series finale for Enterprise, it was one of the worst series finales in TV history.

Late to the party but I still feel Enterprise's opening song is what hurt it the most. Every time I talk to someone about that show they mention how they hated that song.

I actually enjoyed Enterprise. The first 2 seasons were really kind of meandering but earnest. Season 3 was a great serial story starting out as angry "they attacked us!" and getting more and more pieces to the puzzle as time went on and realizing it's not nearly as cut and dry as we originally thought. Season 4 was really when it got around to being "Star Trek" in my opinion, the augments/klingon augment story lines really stand out in my opinion. But yes "These are the voyages" really is a very disappointing finale. Back when i aired Voyager was a my favorite as it's the one that really pulled me into Trek, and despite it's flaws was really enjoyable for the most part. Since then as i've aged and grown and re watched the various shows, DS9 has risen to the top of the pile and Enterprise has risen to number 2 in my opinion. As far as series finale episodes go it's definitely at the bottom of the list.

I think I'm the odd one out, because I really liked it in the way back when it aired. And unless I'm totally mistaken (which will, of course, never happen) when playing certain simulations one has to follow a script more or less, and that's what he was doing. My then-housemate was annoyed that we didn't get to hear the speech, but it's the speech that changed the galaxy, so not likely there was a way to live up to that.

Riker going to that moment in Enterprise's history to learn a lesson about defying orders to do the right thing and trust in his captain doesn't even make sense. Like 4-5 episodes before they had that moment when Reed conceals important information from the captain because he had orders from Section 31 and he puts the ship in danger and he regrets it and learns a valuable lesson about trusting his captain.

In the 2nd to last episode T'pol and Trip lost their child, then the last episode Trip died. I was hoping that they would have ended on a happier note. My problem with the series was related to having the entire 3rd season focused on the Time War instead of focusing on some of the less explored alien races. Earth being basically alone and surrounded by more technologically advanced aliens. They could have played with the idea of being a developing planet trying not to be conquered by more powerful aliens that has a large Military Industrial Complex think Vietnam vs USA.

I'll always give Enterprise credit for ONE thing, and one thing only: giving us an explanation for the "changing Klingons" business. Such as it was, of course. 😆

Oh boy. Nah, I don't think you ripped off Peter David. I think we ALL had that idea.

"grumpy sexy vulcan in a cat suit" - always so painfully spot on.

I think the best bit of Enterprise memorabilia I'd like to own is a copy of the call Bakula made to Braga where he screamed at him over this episode.

Choosing to wrap up this video with the synopsis of Enterprise was an interesting call... I agree with you on almost all fronts. I think I may be a bigger fan of Enterprise overall, but this ending is just an insult. And even if it weren't a poor concept, it's poorly executed, as you explained!

Your George Lucas impression always makes me smile.

The biggest thing that bothered me when I first watched this episode all the way back in 2005 is that Riker and Troi looked way older than they were when Pegasus aired.

Amazing content, and great writing! I love all star trek and your "trek, actually" does it a great service AND I could listen to you talk about it all day. One quick question: What's your green screen set up like? Is it a poster board on your monitor, or is the whole background greenscreen?