Yes. I was the Germans and I won.

Have you read Ron D. Moore's interview about Voyager? It kind of gets to the heart about what's wrong with that show.
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Which probably also included that show filmed in New Mexico, though.

…closest I can think of offhand would be the Catherine Tate Show then (keeping in mind I haven't seen Enlightened and have only seen a little of that) only that's a sketch comedy so it doesn't really have the drama part.

Bolarus. That you're a sufficiently devoted Trekkie to be posting about a decade old show but don't know the name off-hand can nicely summarize the kind of non-impact that would have.

We didn't know that at the time. Hell, they weren't confirmed as founding Federation members until the last episode of Enterprise.

I feel like there's a basically optimistic side to Abrams' films (they're out saving the world, doing good stuff, being heroes), even if they downplay the professionalism of previous Treks in favour of bromance and bonhomie and are less fond of speeches - Pike saying the Federation is 'important' is as close as we get…

As it turned out I was very busy on Thursday doing important business. It certainly was not some tabletop WW2 wargaming.

Yeah you could do both of those things. I do feel I should at least read Rabin's regular column at Dissolve, My Year of Flops is what made me a regular AV Club reader.

I know! And the 60s seemed so impossibly ancient when I was a kid. I imagine any hypothetical young Star Trek fan watching TNG now has the same kind of 'gee this is really old' disconnect (and the first season particularly has aged poorly.)

BAFTA. Although there are also international Emmys (IIRC, Sidse-Babett Knudsen won this year for her great work as Birgitte Nyborg in Borgen.)

This comes down to Americans having more money, which is also true web compared to continental European shows.

Yeah it had such a good season too it's a shame it has become forgotten like this.

I was actually around the same age.

I kind of wanted Lance Reddick.

You sound fun.

Yeah I suppose that's a fair point. Well, I guess the other Iconic Federation planets are the sort nobody would really care about (Andor and Tellar, for example, are worlds whose species haven't properly appeared onscreen for decades and neither world had actually appeared… which leaves various Federation outpost…

Really, why would anyone want a plot summary on a recap? The thing about episodic TV criticism is it's designed around everyone watching the thing first and then discussing it, it makes it a very different beast from film criticism (especially as it also means the same writer is expected to talk weekly about the same…

I feel obliged to be boring and link this version that uses Archer's Theme, which longtime Star Trek composer Dennis McCarthy (who wrote DS9's title music) had intended as Enterprise's theme.

Exactly this. The idea that the Romulans could join the Cardassians as a Dominion ally felt palpably real in that moment. And that line sells it.