{"id":6617,"date":"2017-11-02T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2017-10-18T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:16:57","slug":"mark-watches-enterprise-s04e22-these-are-the-voyages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2017\/11\/mark-watches-enterprise-s04e22-these-are-the-voyages\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;Enterprise&#8217;: S04E22 &#8211; These Are The Voyages&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the final episode of <i>Enterprise<\/i>, I think the fuck not. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to finish <i>Star Trek<\/i>. Sort of.\u00c2\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The more I think about this finale, the more horrific I think it is. Like, <i>Enterprise<\/i> has not been my favorite show, not by a long shot. Even then, I still wanted some closure for these characters. While it was neat that the timeline jumped ahead to the first inklings of the alliance that would lead to the Federation, this is otherwise a disaster in plotting and focus, and I would hazard a guess that the fandom was NOT pleased with what transpired.<\/p>\n<p>I like The Next Generation. It was a great show. I FINISHED WATCHING IT A LONG TIME AGO. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Pegasus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was a solid episode, but I really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need MORE insight on Riker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggle about whether he should tell Picard the truth. And y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all know I loved Deanna Troi more than most things, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This.<\/p>\n<p>Did.<\/p>\n<p>Not.<\/p>\n<p>Need.<\/p>\n<p>To.<\/p>\n<p>Happen.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we accept that Riker needed help figuring what to do with Pressman, THIS MISSION MAKES NO SENSE AS A FORM OF ADVICE. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t relate to his issue at all! It is absolutely forced as a means to provide Riker with guidance but THERE IS NO ACTUAL GUIDANCE GIVEN TO HIM. What was the fucking point, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all????<\/p>\n<p>And killing off Tucker??? FOR RIKER MAN PAIN??? 100% unnecessary, actively offensive, A TERRIBLE WRITING DECISION ON ALL FRONTS. What the fuck??? Why? Why do this? What purpose does it serve to do this to a beloved character and then HAVE HIM DIE OFF SCREEN. You couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even give him a heroic goodbye? The episode literally cuts to T\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Pol packing up his things. THAT IS IT.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so bad. And I get the sense that the writers felt like this was actually going to be awesome for us, and yet? Wow, this fails on nearly every front. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terra Prime\u00e2\u20ac\u009d works better as part of a finale, but even then, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like the audience got to say goodbye to anyone on this show. I thought the <i>Voyager<\/i> finale was complicated, but this is just straight up awful.<\/p>\n<p>What a way for my <i>Star Trek<\/i> journey to come to a close. I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got three of the reboot films left, and perhaps one day I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have time for <i>Discovery<\/i>. But as fun as watching <i>Star Trek<\/i> has been, sometimes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pure garbage.<\/p>\n<p>The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These Are The Voyages&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/products\/mark-watches-enterprise-season-4\">here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>My YA contemporary debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2017\/9\/22\/i-am-proud-to-announce-my-ya-contemporary-debut-anger-is-a-gift\">ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now available for pre-order!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the final episode of Enterprise, I think the fuck not. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to finish Star Trek. Sort of.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674,614],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise","category-star-trek","tag-mark-watches-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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