Enterprise Plot Count

[Niemz]

Enterprise Plot Count

10. Being Vulcan, T'Pol is immune against an infection/injury/radiation: 4

9. T'Pol is going to be recalled, but stays aboard: 7

8. Archer pisses off the Klingons: 7

7. A method to track cloaked or vanished ships is developed: 8

6. Reed has visible fun blowing up something or talks about it: 11

5. Forrest and Soval or evil aliens debate Enterprise's future: 12

4. Trip gets himself into an extremely embarrassing situation: 14

3. Archer has to deal with annoying Vulcans: 14

2. T'Pol is embarrassed by an illogical situation or human behavior: 18

1. Archer is captured or incapacitated by aliens: 28

[earthcrusher]

Not much of a real plot is there?

[Lexi]

Hmm...I feel I have to stand up for Enterprise on two counts:

1) The Original Series only had ONE plot, and by today's standards it sucked.
2) Enterprise was a continuing series, so, like DS9, each episode was a distinct part of the story, whereas that was something TOS, TNG and Voyager lacked (but were fine without). Hence, there were less individual episodes than groups of episodes making up a big part of the story.

But season 4 was awful. Partly because it ended the series xD

[Mr. Atoz]

I don't entirely agree with this. Enterprise had long story arcs, which is not quite the same thing as being a "continuing story". And frankly, I began to loose interest in those story arcs after a while, especially the Xindi Weapon storyline.

But I will agree that there was a sense of progressive development going on. At first, none of them liked T'pol, they even went out of their way to make her feel unwanted (Archer letting Porthos jump up on her lap when he KNEW Vulcans don't like that sort of thing, as just one example). In the beginning, the humans behaved like exhuberant schoolboys let out on their own, with T'pol playing the part of their den mother. And so on. But they all gradually came to trust and then to actually like one another. That was pretty cool.

[Lexi]

I agree, it was cool to see a bit more of that dissent that Gene Roddenberry had forbidden earlier on.