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Theta Sigma said:This is my review of the final episode of Enterprise with spoliers.
It takes place years after the penultimate episode. The only show in which the final episode takes place years after the previous one that I have seen is Babylon 5.
It is revealed that six years has passed since the events of the previous episode Terra Prime just as the Federation is about to be established.
Then all of a sudden it is revealed that is a holoprogram as we see Will Riker. Now I knew that Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis were going to be in this episode but not as their TNG characters.
For the TNG scenes it takes place during the TNG season 7 episode Pegasus. I have to say that the Enterprise-D here looks exactly the same then when TNG was on.
Given the fact that TNG started the spin-off TV franchise that began in 1987 and ended with Enterprise, it seems that Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were trying to get things full circle as the TV franchise ends (at least for a while). In fact this is the only crossover between Enterprise and another Star Trek show. This is similar to the Voyager episode Flashback in which Sulu and the crew of the Excelsior appeared in Tuvok's memory as he tried to remember what happened when he was serving on the Excelsior.
There were a couple of deliberate puns with Malcolm saying "All good things.." which is the name of the final TNG episode and Archer in a toast with Trip saying "Here's to the next generation."
TNG, DS9 and Voyager ended with something that posed a danger to the universe. Enterprise however does not. It pretty much ends in the same way that TOS ended and that is not with a spectacular plot.
Enterprise in its final episode has the crew rescuing Shran's daughter. It may be an ok plot but not for a final episode.
I have always like Trip so why kill him off for Shran, someone he didn't really like. Trip is the best character on the show, killing him off in this manner is disappointing.
Reg (Barclay) gets mentioned by Deanna while Brent Spiner is heard on the comm as Data.
When I was watching this, people were very disappointed that Riker ended the program just as Archer was about to deliver his speech as the Federation is about to be born as they really wanted to hear it.
The episode ends with the shot of the Enterprise-D as Picard begins These Are Voyages speech which is continued by Kirk with the shot of the Enterprise 1701 and finally concluded by Archer with the shot of the Enterprise NX-01.
In years from now this final episode is not something that is going to be worth remembering about. The Enterprise characters have been made to be secondary as it is more about Riker's issues. I find it debatable whether this is really the final episode of Enterprise with Riker and Deanna as the guest characters or the long delayed final episode of TNG with the Enterprise characters as the guest characters.
Even though DS9 and Voyager was not about a starship Enterprise, fans of these two shows will probably feel left out with the shots of the three Enterprises at the end. After all, depending whether Star Trek comes back years from now, this was meant to be the end of Star Trek overall.
I wasn't a fan of the episode, it was too much on Riker and Troi than Archer and his crew.