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11-07-2007, 05:06 PM
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Trek always tries 'new' and 'wacky' for the first three seasons, which tend to be rubbish. In season 4 they decide on an identity for the programme, it peaks with innovation and cool stuff in season 6 ("Chain of Command"/"Far Beyond The Stars"/Year of Hell"), season 7 is fun, good tv but lacking the "wow!" episodes and it ends.
>_><_< I hereby patent this as Valium's Law of Star Trek.
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11-07-2007, 08:15 PM
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Um, wacky seasons? Certainly wacky episodes, wacky plotlines, but SEASONS?
No offense meant, but I'd think that Valium's Law of Star Trek would be that you need one before watching ENT. 
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11-08-2007, 01:23 PM
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Hmm. That didn't come across right. I meant that it tries 'new' and 'wacky' episodes in the first three seasons. By midway through s3 it's settling down into an identity, but you're right, they aren't completely 'wacky'.
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11-08-2007, 11:31 PM
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Well, as long as it's only once in awhile, I don't see a problem with wacky. After all, I enjoy the early "wacky" NextGen episodes. Up the Long Ladder, The Outrageous Okona, and so forth.
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11-09-2007, 02:49 PM
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Yes, looking back at them they make a change from later stories which have a stronger sense of franchise-identity, but nevertheless, they can make people look askance at the series when it starts out.
I'm hoping to find some way to map this thinking onto Enterprise.
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11-18-2007, 02:58 AM
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Okay, here's a related question: When do you think the next new Trek show will be created and released?
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