Got this in my mailbox this morning. Whoo boy. For anyone else who didn't see this week's episode of Enterprise, this excerpt from a review doesn't spoil the ending or plot but may ruin your viewing pleasure anyway. :-) Jon
http://www.st-hypertext.com/ent-2/precious.html Enterprise "Precious Cargo" Zero Stars In brief: Bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. Bad. If a casual viewer happened to tune in this week, they'd have but one question: So, this is what passes for Star Trek these days? I sincerely hope not. I hope the producers realized this was a dog and aired it only because, faced with a deadline, they had no choice. I hope they can one day look back and laugh at this atrocity. Laughing is not likely to happen right now, however, as UPN and Enterprise continue to face woeful days of sagging ratings and a questionable future. With an episode like this, those lousy ratings are deserved. Have the producers no respect for their audience's intelligence and, more important, the audience's desire to be entertained? "Precious Cargo" is nothing. Zero. Zilch. A test pattern. An empty vessel. A hollow corpse. A lifeless mass. A limp body. A vapid hour. A lamentable experience. A lousy outing. A table scrap. A scrap without meat. A piece of garbage. A test of viewer endurance. Television detritus. Hoary insipidity. A road to nowhere. A road from nowhere. Utter crap. Astounding banality. Awful dreck. A dismal failure. An abomination. A self-parody. A bad self-parody. An insult to the intellect. A slap to the face. Did I mention it was bad? At the risk of overstating my case, I'll just say that essentially, this episode is one big, long, long, long, long cliche. This is certainly one of the longest hours of Trek ever made. And one of the dumbest. And most boring and pointless. There is literally NOTHING here that inspires thinking. The actors are deer trapped in the blinding headlights of the script, coming at them at 60 mph. Wham. Yikes -- looks like this one's a DOA. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
