More on topic I work at one of the many medical device companies in the Twin Cities and I can say because of the historically low unemployment numbers in the area, there is a lot of difficulty across many industries for direct labor due to high competition and a smaller pool of people seeking employment.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds....but the robots get a little tetchy if it gets below 65, so...

Outlandish episodes...?

I want the new series to be basically Back to the Future where they spend the entire run correcting the changes to the timeline. If they don’t there is little chance Riker would ever be born to make holodeck programs in the first place.

I have the personal theory that “Enterprise” exists /only/ in the same timeline that spawned nuTrek, given the radical levels of dissonance that exists in those two when compared to the original series and movies. If one were to add into this the notion that “Enterprise” was the bad historical interactive novel that…

My favorite headcanon is that the entire run of Voyager is a long running stress test of the holographic doctor program.

I find all (ok most) of your lack of faith in Trek disturbing.

Enterprise had a lot going for it. Like just about everyone on the show, I feel it was a victim of circumstance. 9/11, the writers strike, etc.

If you take the story they had to tell, as just that, an amazing story - of those scared first steps out the…

I was hoping when the show came out that they’d place it in an alternate timeline. It would fit in perfectly with the whole Temporal Cold War plot an it would explain why the continuity/effects didn’t quite match up with what should have been 100 years pre-Kirk. And because they ended up doing exactly that 8 years…

Hadn’t heard the original... So Will’s drunken bad karaoke version?

That’s kind of eerie—I was just reading the plot synopsis for “Boxing Helena” (for reasons I can’t satisfactorily explain) and I thought to myself, “The ending was ‘It was all a dream’? Oh, that’s terrible! Has there ever been an ending of ‘None of it was real’ that wasn’t awful?”

Enterprise is actually among my favorite Star Trek series!

This is not the first time this trekkie has heard this horrible fallacy.

First - Riker is not the historical reenactment type. Let’s look at his recreation activities? Trombone, Jazz Clubs, Risa, Hookers (the game). Historical reenactments are not his bag.

Second - The events of “The Pegasus” have Riker questioning…

I had fun watching it. Even own the first season on DVD.

Will Riker, The Most Interesting Man In Any Universe.

Me too. I enjoyed it much more than I expected I would and I feel too many people are focused on making it fit with the rest of the Star Treks. Just enjoy the damn show people! On its own it is decent.

Well of course it was all Riker’s fanfic. You could tell from the moment he started shipping Trip and T’Pol.

Seems legit.

Obviously the finale was bad, but I think that, of all the ST shows, Enterprise best captured the crew’s excitement for exploration and discovery - the very reason for every Enterprise. Ok, lots of the show was bad, but I really liked that part of it.