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Over the past few months I have watched this entire series on SKY, I enjoyed it so much I just bought the full four season boxset on Blu Ray, so I can delete the episodes from.my SKY box and have them preserved forever in a glorious hard copy format.
Some thoughts, great cast, Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer is a damn fine choice for a Star Trek captain, ultimately he isn't as iconic as Kirk or Picard. His character was very well fleshed out and we see real growth in him as the series progresses, to begin with he is quite idealistic and clearly under pressure as he has to prove that Earth and Starfleet are ready for the challenges of space and everything it entails. By the end of the series he's a hardened man by what he's been through and a bona fide hero. We see just how far he will go when situations are desperate in season three
Conor Trineer as Tucker is someone who initially I disliked he seemed too typecast at first, too stereotypically American, but his relationship with T'Pol was handled very tastefully. The writers gave Tucker room to grow and soon he broke free of the typecast he initially had and became in my opinion a standout character. I hated the way his character was treated in the season finale, it was so disrespectful when you consider all the development work out in to building his character.
T'Pol was another favourite, her fish out of water character made for some very interesting situations, she was privy to.more knowledge of interstellar dealings than anyone else on the ship. But had little experience working with non Vulcans, naturally her conceptions of humans were often challenged and became a central theme. She also had an.interesting arc where an encounter left her with a form of substance dependency and weakened her emotional self control an ambitious plot that Trek had largely ignored before.
Hoshi was a character who I wish had been given more storylines of her own, Hoshi is a gem who wasn't given the time to shine she deserved for me. She had some great moments but her full potential was never realised.
On the whole this has become one of my favourite Star Trek series with some of the most ambitious plots yet, the Xindi storyline in season three is one of the most interesting concepts the series has ever done, not just the whole save Earth story but the Xindi as a species and the way they work together as a collective and the resulting intersepecies tensions as a result of their tumultuous past.
Some thoughts, great cast, Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer is a damn fine choice for a Star Trek captain, ultimately he isn't as iconic as Kirk or Picard. His character was very well fleshed out and we see real growth in him as the series progresses, to begin with he is quite idealistic and clearly under pressure as he has to prove that Earth and Starfleet are ready for the challenges of space and everything it entails. By the end of the series he's a hardened man by what he's been through and a bona fide hero. We see just how far he will go when situations are desperate in season three
when he tortures a captured enemy to gain information on the Xindi superweapon.
Conor Trineer as Tucker is someone who initially I disliked he seemed too typecast at first, too stereotypically American, but his relationship with T'Pol was handled very tastefully. The writers gave Tucker room to grow and soon he broke free of the typecast he initially had and became in my opinion a standout character. I hated the way his character was treated in the season finale, it was so disrespectful when you consider all the development work out in to building his character.
T'Pol was another favourite, her fish out of water character made for some very interesting situations, she was privy to.more knowledge of interstellar dealings than anyone else on the ship. But had little experience working with non Vulcans, naturally her conceptions of humans were often challenged and became a central theme. She also had an.interesting arc where an encounter left her with a form of substance dependency and weakened her emotional self control an ambitious plot that Trek had largely ignored before.
Hoshi was a character who I wish had been given more storylines of her own, Hoshi is a gem who wasn't given the time to shine she deserved for me. She had some great moments but her full potential was never realised.
On the whole this has become one of my favourite Star Trek series with some of the most ambitious plots yet, the Xindi storyline in season three is one of the most interesting concepts the series has ever done, not just the whole save Earth story but the Xindi as a species and the way they work together as a collective and the resulting intersepecies tensions as a result of their tumultuous past.
