• Flying Squid
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    210 months ago

    I think it was more of a ‘this is a great opportunity for metaphoric storytelling’ than ‘let’s celebrate the Bush Doctrine’ though.

    I think it failed, but that’s another issue.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      I got a lot of “we’re facing an exitensial threat, therefore the ends justify the means” out of the 3rd season. It seemed really out of place in a star trek show. Maybe it wasn’t an implicit endorsement of the Bush doctrine but it sure smelled like one to me.

      • Flying Squid
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        110 months ago

        It’s been so long that I’d have to watch it again, to be honest. To me, the only good season of Enterprise was Season 4 when Manny Coto took over and just made it a season-long tribute to TOS. Ironically, Coto is a Republican. That said, he also made another terrific short-lived sci-fi TV show called Odyssey 5 with Peter Weller. I highly recommend its one season despite the cliffhanger ending.

          • Flying Squid
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            110 months ago

            No problem. It was part of Showtime’s sci-fi block which also had a pretty good post-apocalyptic show called Jeremiah, which showed that Malcolm Jamal-Warner had range beyond sitcoms. Showtime axed all of their sci-fi shows and it died. Stargate SG-1 was the only one that got saved by moving over to the Sci-Fi Channel, I think because it was being co-funded by Canada.

            I wish he’d continued to story in a book or something. Everyone I’ve recommended it to has liked it. Looks like all of the episodes are on YouTube. Here’s the pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGbfQOFN60