Melanie McFarland with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says it is time for 'Enterprise' fans to switch ships:
"Listen, I'm all for people doing everything they can to save their favorite shows, an annual hobby that tends to pop up near the end of February sweeps. Please, flood networks with food items. Bargain with critics and get other viewers to notice worthy, underappreciated series such as The WB's "Jack & Bobby" and "Arrested Development."
"But -- and I cannot stress this enough -- know when to throw in the towel. Some programs are simply lost causes. "Star Trek: Enterprise" fans, I'm peering in your direction."
As a big Star Trek fan who has watched all the TOS episodes in a row on DVD, all the TNG episodes in a row on DVD and is currently watching the DS9 episodes in a row on DVD to be followed by Voyager... plus been to Vegas and purchased the day-pass to the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton, I can say that I have to agree with her:
"It's "Battlestar Galactica's" time now."
I really thought when Enterprise was launched that it was going to be a tough, gritty look at what it takes to survive in the new frontier of deep space exploration... a hard look at the pain and blood and seat it takes to forge the Federation... but that never materialized... They never told those hard stories.
That is why I like BSG. It is telling a hard story. The people are imperfect... they are tired... they are flawed and susceptible to their own impulses and their own mistakes. They struggle and when they do you believe it. As the audience we are convinced of their pain and the hopelessness of their situation. On Star Trek something is always exploding on the bridge... yet every week the ship is magically back in order. That doesn't happen on BSG. Vipers break and they stay broken. Pilots die and the flight briefing room has less people in it.
BSG doesn't have a magical supply of red-shirts to replenish the ranks. They don't have replicators to make food or water or weapons. Each person matters. Each resource matters. It is a refreshing change from the Trek universe... a universe that I was hoping 'Enterprise' could have introduced us to...
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