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Worffan101 Since: Jan, 2015
12/29/2015 16:49:19 •••

By far the worst Trek series.

The 1st episode established that Archer got his job through nepotism and runs off into space without making sure that he has all the things needed to, y'know, go off into space. The 2nd episode establishes that the transporters work better than the communicators. The 4th episode is an extended joke about Tucker being raped, Tucker getting high, and Tucker being mocked for getting raped, being impregnated thanks to the rape, having his biology being rewritten thanks to the rape, becoming a sexist stereotype of a pregnant mother due to the rape, and finally being forced to publicly discuss the rape with Klingons.

By the time "Dear Doctor" rolls around and Phlox advocates letting an entire species die in agony because of his Nazi ideology about the Valakians "evolving" into extinction (evolution doesn't work that way) and the Menk being allegedly superior, it was obvious that the show was doomed. To catalog the sheer number of failures of writing, directing, special effects, and even acting on this show would take more space than this review, but to put it bluntly: The writing was so bad that Jolene Blalock, a Trekkie, knew how to write and play a Vulcan better than the showrunners who were writing Star Trek, but was forced to play the insulting sexist stereotype of T'Pol anyway. The worst episode of Trek, "A Night In Sickbay" is from ENT season 2.

Season 3 is marginally better, but still suffers from flat characters and Archer being an asshole. Season 4, when they finally kicked out Berman and Braga, is actually moderately half-decent, thanks to Manny Coto's heroic efforts to salvage the mess, but by that point the show's 3 seasons of bad had surpassed the power of its brand name, and the rating had dropped enough that it was cut, but not before Berman and Braga shat on the franchise one last time with "These are the Voyages".

Do not use this to introduce someone to Trek. If you MUST watch it, watch ONLY season 4, and maybe season 3 if you can tolerate Protagonist-Centered Morality.

1/10 would not watch Archer be a whiny racist narcissistic brat again.


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