Borklog: One entry
27 September 2001
From a review of Enterprise, about it being the worst thing ever ot happen to Trek (they also say it's the best thing), but anyway:
The skin-tight catsuit
on the Vulcan T'Pol and her gratuitous rub-down in oily blue
Jello; the equal-time skin shots of the show's handsome
male leads; the dropping of the Star Trek sobriquet and
the use of a Rod Stewart theme song (Did they HAVE to go
with a power ballad? Hello? Aren't the Eighties OVER?); all
of it indicates close and careful attention to demographics
and market studies, art by focus group, storytelling by
worrying consensus. Enterprise is not driven by any
creator's vision of a story, because its creators aren't
concerned with a story: they're concerned with a franchise,
and we can only hope that they even know the difference.
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