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Re: Star Trek tangent - set phasers on gay! by FABIO 04/14/2005, 8:18pm PDT
bombMexico wrote:

But then the part of me that knows why Enterprise was cancelled (sucking) gently explains that they were just finally written out in embarrassment.


I thought it was due to, after a certain point, every single episode following some grand plot arc that you didn't have any hope of following unless you'd caught the past twenty episodes. Okay something about the Zingy race and their ultimate weapon....reptillians? Some monologue spewing race of Odo lookalikes babbling about timelines and spheres? Who the fuck knows anymore.

Same thing with a ton of current series: Stargate SG-1, Alias, etc. Who can follow all this shit? Whatever happened to self-contained episodes? Is Law & Order the only non-sitcom series that still has these? You could jump in at any point in TNG and the only backstory you needed to know was "Data is a robot". I actually liked the couple of self-contained Enterprise episodes that I saw (the creepy automated repair station, the creepy hostile race that told them to surrender or die using spliced footage of the captain), despite having some of the worst side stories in the history of fiction (what's the chief engineer's favorite food?).

You can tell how much a sci-fi show sucked previously by measuring the amount of time it took for them to run out of interesting ideas and start going with the "big mysterious evil race comes out of nowhere and everyone must unite to stop them". TNG and Babylon 5 didn't pull out the borg or shadows until a couple seasons in (and even then the Borg weren't brought out that often). They found out pretty quick in DS9 that nobody gave a shit about Bijorian religious disputes and introduced the dominion. Enterprise jumped into the ultimate weapon thing almost right out of the gate.

Having the gayest opening song ever didn't help either.
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    Re: I was able to get Doom 3 installed. by FABIO 08/05/2004, 12:52pm PDT NEW
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    How long had you played it when you posted this? by Bill Dungsroman 04/13/2005, 11:56pm PDT NEW
        It was probably on the first day. Maybe the second. by Creexul :( 04/14/2005, 1:20am PDT NEW
        So your entire article is basically wrong then and you owe me an apology NT by Darren Gladstone 04/14/2005, 1:46am PDT NEW
            I'm sorry, anonymous loser pretending to be Darren. by Bill Dungsroman 04/14/2005, 9:34am PDT NEW
                Re: I'm sorry, anonymous loser pretending to be Darren. by bink 04/14/2005, 9:46am PDT NEW
                    bink is mad that BDR took his MAYUN and blew him with a zest of irony. NT by binkbotting Casual observer 04/14/2005, 11:27am PDT NEW
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                            Yes, a retarded shut-in virgin with dubious hygiene is MUCH more interesting. by Casual Observer 04/14/2005, 6:35pm PDT NEW
                                Re: Yes, a retarded shut-in virgin with dubious hygiene is MUCH more intere by Creexul :( 04/14/2005, 7:08pm PDT NEW
                                    And the savant has spoken. NT by Casual Observer 04/14/2005, 7:13pm PDT NEW
                                        The O in "observer" is not capitalized by Casual observer 04/14/2005, 7:33pm PDT NEW
                Why are all speaker setups two dimensional by Andrew 04/14/2005, 2:59pm PDT NEW
                    Dude, they just recently managed to flank and surround you. Progress takes time! by Bill Dungsroman 04/14/2005, 4:43pm PDT NEW
                        Star Trek tangent - set phasers on gay! by bombMexico 04/14/2005, 6:50pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Star Trek tangent - set phasers on gay! by FABIO 04/14/2005, 8:18pm PDT NEW
                                Gorn were featured prominently in the tabletop SFB game, is why. by Bill Dungsroman 04/14/2005, 9:09pm PDT NEW
                                reminiscing on Star Trek almost made me forgot about taxes, i lead a sad life by bombMexico 04/15/2005, 2:08am PDT NEW
                                    BOY STAR TREK IS GREAT HUH? by Creexul :( 04/15/2005, 3:14am PDT NEW
                                        Re: BOY STAR TREK IS GREAT HUH? by Best Linux Certification 07/12/2021, 10:09am PDT NEW
                                            genius advertising NT by laudablepuss 07/12/2021, 1:26pm PDT NEW
                                    Shit. My PO Box is at the PO that stays open til midnight. Better get the mail! by Bill Dungsroman 04/15/2005, 5:36am PDT NEW
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                    The screen blinks red when you get hit, who needs sound? by bombMexico 04/14/2005, 7:00pm PDT NEW
                        *Ahem!* NT by Nintendo DS 04/15/2005, 6:43pm PDT NEW
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                        Re: This is why Aureal was rad by Andrew 04/15/2005, 12:33pm PDT NEW
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                        If you didn't play Thief with A3D, you didn't really play it. NT by Mischief Maker 04/15/2005, 6:34pm PDT NEW
                Re: I'm sorry, anonymous loser pretending to be Darren. by Creexul :( 04/14/2005, 6:59pm PDT NEW
                    :( NT by Bill Dungsroman 04/14/2005, 9:05pm PDT NEW
 
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