| Re: Voyager to Enterprise - a mistake?
Okay, Enterprise had a lot of faults: Badly realised and repetitive stories, poorly defined and anonymous main characters and possibly irritates a few rivet counters with their dreamed up history. But it was a far better homily to Trek than Voyager ever was.
If it had had a real chance i.e. a couple of years break between Voyager finishing and it starting, then there would have been no problem.
I would suggest it was Voyager that was the real mistake and the rot set in there. Make no mistake- I think Voyager was a major advance in concept for the franchise, but it needed the coherent sequential story and drama that only pre-planning can provide.
Only the introduction of 7o9 to add a focus for half a season did it ever disguise the fact that stories and scripts were being grabbed from the writing committee before the ink dried. Compare that to say Doctor Who, where all the stories, scripts and majority of planning for a season have been completed before a camera is set up |