Star Trek Fans...

[AsahinaKimi]

I am re-watching Star Trek: Enterprise (at www.startrek.com/videos) and am enjoying this series again. Was curious which were your favorite characters from the series?

8 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Captain Jonathan Archer
	2 (25%)
	T'Pol
	3 (38%)
	Charles "Trip" Tucker III
	0 (0%)
	Malcolm Reed
	0 (0%)
	Hoshi Sato
	1 (13%)
	Travis Mayweather
	1 (13%)
	Dr. Phlox
	0 (0%)
	Porthos (Archer's Beagle)
	1 (13%)
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[arcane1]

1. What, no love for Porthos? :)

I never managed to see all seasons of Enterprise, but I always felt that it was, in many ways, the best-looking series of them all. It really felt like being aboard an actual starship in the future. The interiors, props, uniforms, etc, seemed so much more "real". I suppose that means my favorite character was the ship

[AsahinaKimi]

3. You can watch episodes you missed here.

http://www.startrek.com/videos/star-trek-enterprise

[arcane1]

9. Sweet, thanks!!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) was the main reason I watched that show

I fantacized about being a crew member and asking her "permission to land on Uranus?"

[Dr. Strange]

4. That makes no sense.

The Vulcans didn't have possession of Uranus--that belonged to Earth.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. She was a Subcommander on board and the Science Officer

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As a crew member under her command I would have had to ask her permission for such landings, such as on "the moons of Uranus" and such.

[eShirl]

32. Perhaps, but it was surrounded by Klingons.

[Bucky]

38. Sadly, no. Just a big icy ring.

[pokerfan]

5. That's Empress Sato

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshi_Sato#The_Mirror_Hoshi

[Cheap_Trick]

6. Evil Hoshi, so hot, want to touch the hiney..... nt

[kentauros]

8. As is true for pretty much every science fiction show out there with medical personnel,

for me, it's always the doctor. They usually have the best and most complex characters, plus, in some circumstances, they can outrank the highest ranking official

I just finished re-watching Voyager, and Robert Picardo's holographic doctor was the best character of that whole series

[AsahinaKimi]

10. He was fun to watch...

Robert Picardo had some great scenes on Voyager and even showed up in a Star Trek: First Contact.

[Agschmid]

11. T'Pol close second... But love Trip.

[AsahinaKimi]

12. Definately

he was more exciting than Malcolm and it seemed Travis never got that much focus.

[Agschmid]

27. Ugh... Malcolm

Eye roll....

[Arcanetrance]

13. Commander Shram but out of the option given probably trip

[AsahinaKimi]

14. I liked him...

The Andorian could be so deadly serious, and then say something that would have me rolfmao.. and always calling Archer Pink Skin. He was a fun character to watch.

[Arcanetrance]

15. He was and he was also played by Jeffrey Combs

So I always pictured him resuming his reanimator roll when he wasn't leading his forces

[arcane1]

16. Who also played Weyoun on DS9

I love it when Trek actors appear as more than one character

[Arcanetrance]

17. Yep its like the guy who played tom Paris was in tng as a cadet leader

[arcane1]

18. That would be a fun poll, who is your favorite Trek actor to play more than one role

I have no idea what my answer would be. Tony Todd or James Sloyan, probably.

[Arcanetrance]

19. That would definitely be a tricky one I think I would go with J. G Hertzler

[eShirl]

33. Don't forget Brunt!

[Agschmid]

28. I also really like him...

He usually did the right thing even if it pained him.

[Bucky]

36. Yeah, the Andorians were another thing they show did right.

They got so much wrong (I ranted in a long post below) but the Andorian society was fresh and plausible and intriguing.

But then the show kept on going back to their idiotic time travel shows with their mountain sized plot holes. Aggravating.

[harmonicon]

20. I'm confused.

Star Trek fans didn't watch Enterprise. Trust me.

[OriginalGeek]

21. lol, I liked it better than TNG

and I love all star trek but Voyager.

TOS
Enterprise
TNG
DS9

in that order.

I still have a crush on Hoshi and my daughter will watch a TV show JUST because it has Trip in it. We also liked Archer but mostly because we were Quantum Leap fans.

[harmonicon]

24. You can't like it if you've never seen it.

I'm a huge Star Trek fan (which is why I hate Voyager), but I think I saw all of about two episodes of Enterprise, if that many. I think it was having singing in the opening credits that ruined. Why would I stick around for that?

[OriginalGeek]

26. Hah! Yep the theme song was awful

It was a running joke in our house to dive for the remote so we could mute the sound until after the song.

[Neoma]

23. I tend to agree on this point.

[Paulie]

25. Yup. +100

[Bucky]

37. Ahem

Star Trek fan here. I watched. I grimaced sometimes. But I watched whenever I could.

[RILib]

22. the one Star Trek series I didn't like

Besides Archer just not having a commanding presence, it seemed like it was filmed in the dark. I was really surprised to later see a photo of the snazzy uniforms, who knew.

My fav was Deep Space Nine.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. Very underrated series.

(but that damned theme song... )

[CherokeeDem]

30. Love Archer and Trip...

And the good doctor...and adored Porthos....

T'Pol...not so much...too pouty...

[sheshe2]

31. I'm still with the original, Kimi. Sorry.

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Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura

[Bucky]

35. How wonderfully naughty!

Hold still, lieutenant. I think I dropped my tricorder. It'll only take me a minute to fish it out.

[Bucky]

34. I liked that series, but I wanted to love it.

I was so intrigued with the idea of exploring the origins of the Star Trek mythos. The artistic challenge of making the ship both technologically more advanced than the 1990s, but still less advanced than the 1960s vision of the future was also a big draw for me. And I did enjoy the show--especially the first season when everything was new. But the execution was just a bit hollow.

First off, several of the characters were just outright boring. Mostly the problem was Mayweather and Reed. Reed should've been intriguing and a source of internal conflict. But they just had everyone (*yawn*) get along. The Trek producers had learned nothing from DS9. Mayweather actually had an intriguing backstory--having grown up on a generation ship. He should've been a fish out of water character. They did nothing memorable with him. Hoshi Sato started off a little boring too, but at least that character grew. For that matter, Jonathan Archer didn't have much character wise, but Scott Bakula knew just how to play him and saved weak writing with a mix of captainly gravitas and the suppressed wide-eye joy of exploring the stars. He carried a lot of the shows just by being watchable.

I never quite got the logic of Dr. Phlox. If humans were so awkward around Vulcans, why was Phlox's presense never played for tension? What was the implication of saying we need yet another alien on-board to handle the sciency stuff. It just seemed to echo the same old racial predeterminism that haunts most Star Trek shows--Vulcans are logical, Klingons are angry, Ferengis are greedy, Betazeds are horny. So Humans, it's implied, are too dumb to handle medicine. But if Phlox is there as (IIRC) part of a cultural exchange program, why is he so culturally adept at mixing with humans? Where is the cultural difference, the otherness, that he should bring to the crew? No, he was as friendly and open and surface-shallow as any human. The producers put some really intriguing elements into play, but then never did anything with them.

And yet they kept on getting just enough right in the mix of characters and story to keep the show from being uninspired. Playing Klingons as the heavies was brilliant. The Trip-T'Pol sexual tension was clever. They were actually my favorite characters and both actors (unlike Mayweather & Reed) could act, could show something working below the surface. It was natural, if a little atavistic, to have the Vulcan go for (and yet not quite go for) the most human guy on the ship. It really played with my librarian fantasies. It was a shame they played T'Pol as the show's eye-candy (note the porno pose Jolene Blalock is striking in your OP's photo--sorry, but real Vulcans don't arch their backs to stick their boobies out). But getting the humans right was always the Achilles heel of Rick Berman's Trek shows. Bakula was letter perfect, as I said before, and probably is the reason the show made it to season four.

Your question really got my gears grinding. Thanks for giving me something to dissect. I think I'll check the series out again this summer.

[AmyDeLune]

39. One of the primary problems for both Voyager and Enterprise

was that they were "network flagship" shows for the now failed UPN. They were the first Treks not to take fan submissions and were based more on marketing studies to get viewers. Hence there was little lasting character development on Voyager, just a lot of what the network execs thought would get ratings (why did a former Borg drone need high heels and a corset?) We used to joke that the reason there was a limit on Holodeck use was because they were using it to manufacture shuttles and replacement ship parts. An acquaintance in the effects industry said he was disappointed at how perfect and clean the ship was no matter what happened to it; no mismatched patchwork replacements parts or repair work.

Enterprise was better but suffers from a lack of focus; they introduced a time travel element with some future super villain that was never resolved and every time they seemed to have developed a solid direction, it was abandoned, and sadly it had the *lamest ever* Trek series finale.

[RILib]

40. Dr. Phlox

A mistake giving him a bunch of wives. That made him totally not a sexily-appealing character.