USA Today offers up an appraisal of the state of Star Trek Enterprise in a review of the show’s Friday night debut tonight,
Oh, for the love of God, sink this ship.
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So tonight the show returns with a ludicrous time-travel story, bereft of both creativity and taste. To its usual mix of bland characters and indecipherable plots Enterprise adds alien Nazis, who promise theri B-movie German allies a “plague targeting non-Aryans.”
“No need for extermination camps,” the alien says in one of the most cringe-worthy scenes of the new season. Get the word to Standards and Practices: If ever a subject should be safely out of the hands of incompetent TV writers, it’s the Holocaust.
Wow — a Star Trek episode with a time travel plot. Rick Berman and company must have really wracked their brains to come up with such a fresh plot twist. Star Trek may be on its last legs, but thank goodness Paramount has its best and brightest on the case.
Source:
‘Trek’: Not-so-boldly going down the tubes. USA Today, October 8, 2004.