Guest Review - Broken Bow

Title :	Broken Bow	Rating :
First Aired :	26 Sep 2001	Stardate :	16-Apr-51
Director :	James L. Conway	Year :	2151
Writers :	Brannon Braga, Rick Berman	Season :	1
Rating :	1.3333 for 3 reviews	Add your own review

Reviewer :	BJH	Rating :
Review :	Oh dear, the tragedy begins. Fans were comfortable with the 24th century. A post Voyager series would have been more than welcome. Even a better written, better paced DS9 type. Instead, we get this piece of faecal matter. Shockiing. Much to answer for, Mr. Braga.

Reviewer :	Cailus	Rating :
Review :	Out of all the TNG+ pilots, this is easily the worst. All of the other pilots introduced an interesting premise, interesting characters, and an interesting setting; using an old Cardassian mining station for DS9 is a personal favourite, and the DS9 cast was fantastic, most certainly equal to the TNG cast. And then we have this. Enterprise. So first off, premise. Enterprise is Earth's first true starship? Okay, not bad. Enterprise is taking, and then rescuing, a Klingon diplomat? Huh? The writers had three good beginnings to look at, and they produced this piece of trash? How the hell does rescuing a dumb Klingon compare with Sisko explaining time to the Prophets or Picard arguing for the continued existence of humanity? And then, of course, we have the cast. The only one who is even attempting to approach a real character is T'Pol, and even then, she is an awful copy of Spock, and representative of the similarily awful Enterprise version of the Vulcans. Archer comes off as a brash, impulsive prick in all the wrong ways, and looks to have the intelligence of a peanut-and really, that's an insult to peanuts. And of course, the ship. Aesthetically it looks just as futuristic as TNG-era ships...which makes plenty of sense, since it was designed TWO HUNDREDS YEARS PREVIOUS. Really, it's a blessing that they used keyboards, because that's one of very few things they managed to get right. The ship has absolutely no interesting features; it's just tech that we already know given other fancy names. So, in the end, an awful beginning to an awful show. An insult, really.

Reviewer :	=A= Quad	Rating :
Review :	I watched this episode three times before I decided to write a review. I had to realize that there is a supreme difference between what is popular and fun to watch and what is canonically accurate and pleasing to the multitude of stickler fans. It is impossible and probably wrong to separate the five live-action series of Trek in our minds. Therefore, when I finally accomplished this seemingly-horrendous task, I found myself enjoying it immensely. I gave it a 3 instead of a 4 or 5 because I happen to agree with the majority of those stickler fans when they say that it isn't everything it could have been. The technology of Starfleet is indeed in its' infancy and besides the stylings of the latest Enterprise, they got it quite right. The crew's unwillingness to use the transporters is quite humorous to say the least. Overall, not a bad episode and one I wouldn't mind watching again.

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