Here's what I think... and am hoping for: GNP will release a score CD for "Broken Bow" and Decca will release a compilation disc of various Season One scores, similar to GNP's Stargate SG-1 disc.

However, that's not the case. Decca is releasing the album, and GNP is just selling it on their site, so everyone can get their Trek fix in one place.

And it's just the pilot score to "Broken Bow". And unless something changes significantly, it should also have McCarthy's original main title theme.

Dan

IMHO...if you compare the first seasons of all Star Trek shows to date this is by far the best. Now, I am not saying that it will ever be as good as TNG but the fundamentals were there out of the gate.

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Yeah, Voyager had Jeri Ryan too--that didn't make it a good show.

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...but it certainly made it easier to watch!

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Yeah, Voyager had Jeri Ryan too--that didn't make it a good show.

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I enjoyed Voyager quite a bit... enough with this hyper-critical "it doesn't live up to TOS" non-sense. Star Trek has morphed into something new, and while it does maintain many of its grandfather's attributes (which yes, were great!), it has taken on a new form, serving a new audience. If you're stuck in a mental rutt of comparitive expectations, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment. I'm a huge, dedicated fan of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and now Enterprise. I think Enterprise is a great show - the character interactions being my favorite aspect. I enjoy the temporal cold-war plot they are sticking to and look forward to what the show will bring in the coming seasons.

Take it for what it is. Don't compare it to anything else. Enjoy its nods to past incarnations, but don't forget that it's serving a dual audience: the "dedicated"-Trek fan base and the new comers. I've been personal witness to Enterprise appealing to an otherwise non-sci-fi crowd. My roommate, aunt, and cousins, all of whom never cared to sit through past-Trek incarnations, find themselves thoroughly entertained by the show. I think that's a good thing.

And Nielsen ratings? Who cares... those don't say anything of value to me.

With a smile,
Jeron

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The irony is that in playing it safe they're already losing viewers.

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...and picking up unsuspecting viewers like those I mentioned above. It may suffer as a result of the claims you've made, but at the same time, I think Enterprise has stepped "out of the box" a few times in both sexual appeal and language to break the DS9/VOY-trend. Is it whoring itself by giving in to these things? Maybe. The use of sex and language isn't a very complex concept. But I think it has given it an edge against its predecessors, considering today's audiences. Give it a couple more seasons... I think they're crafting a cool plot that in retrospect will be viewed as compelling as say... the last 3 seasons of DS9.

Jeron

For me, the edge brought to the dialogue makes for better acting. The episode where Tucker and Reed are stuck in the shuttle pod for the entire show believing that Enterprise had been destoyed gave us some great dialogue and excellent performances. It is the character interactions that make the show so compelling for me.

The weak writing is evidenced by long drawn-out camera views and pans that follow an actor from one end of a hallway to another or from the top of a ladder to the bottom. The whole show is just one long time killer.

I've been using it for years on the other Trek series. You aim low and expect nothing, so ANYTHING jumps out as being "okay."

You NEVER would have seen Kirk, Spock, and Bones hanging from tendrils for over 40 minutes in a Classic Trek episode - too much story would have prevented it.

I agree about the score, but it was too subdued. It should have been a slow, building tension piece to make us feel that the crew was running out of time, like in the days of Ron Jones on TNG. But it wasn't.

Oh the horrors!

That's it, I'm killing myself right now.

BTW Jeron old buddy, it wasn't "Kirk" who said that. It was Shatner in a spoof on SNL. Boy, talk about someone needing reality? Jeron, you better get out more.

Kevin

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BTW Jeron old buddy, it wasn't "Kirk" who said that. It was Shatner in a spoof on SNL. Boy, talk about someone needing reality? Jeron, you better get out more.

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One of the advantages of writing about the entertainment industry for a living is I just don't have to get a life!

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I like the IDEA of having rougher language and sex on Enterprise but I don't think it's worked out in reality--seriously, where's the "sex" been? We do get cheesecake with gratuitous scenes of T'Pol in a tank top or in the ludicrous scene in "Shadows of P'Jemm" where she's shoving her fake breasts in Archer's face due to them being tied up. But has anyone actually had sex yet? I think people got a LOT more action on the original show and there was just as much if not much more flesh on display. I just think the TONE of Voyager and Enterprise has been distinctly kiddie-oriented, afraid to offend, excite or frighten the way some of the earlier shows did--and that makes the occasional "adult" moments stick out awkwardly.<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hoshi just got some........

And I think Tucker has said "sonofabitch" more times than all the other series and movies put together......