BSG is GREAT!
By theerdman

I have been a member here for years and this is my very first post.

Why?

Because BSG is everything that "enterprise" should be. Kudos to Ron Moore for reinventing a franchise exactly how he said he would. It has enough continuity to the old show to make it familiar but creates a dramtic new environment where nothing is predictable.

I would stack the drama of the first two episodes (as well as the pilot) against anything that the "Star Trek" has produced in the past ten years. It's dramatic... gripping... exciting.

Look at the way the show is produced. The battles... the effects... the lighting. Is so fresh... so unlike the same look and feel that has existed on "Trek since 1991. Yes... at the time, it's what "trek" needed, but we are ten years removed!!! I applaud what Manny Coto (sp?) is doing this season... but the bottom line is this. Trek today still looks like a TV show. It's overlit... the drama is bland... the endings are entirely predictable and even when we get a great Brent Siner guest shot, it underwhelms at every turn. Were any of the "augments a tenth of the presense of Khan? Where's the drama? Where are the theatrical quality episodes? Great effects do not make a great viewing experience.

In 1991... I would NEVER miss an episode of TNG. NEVER. It was must-watch TV an I spent my money on the mags, the toys and the videos like a good Trek fan. But those days are OVER! Do you know when I watch Enterprise? When I remember to... and that isn't very often. I might try to tune in for the Klingon/Bumpy Head episodes... but I know that the look/feel/story/acting and effects will be exactly as I remember Voyager looking like in 1998. Sorry... I'd rather watch sports center.

The last piece of Star Trek entertainment that really mattered? That really meant something? That made me have an emotional reaction? First Contact?Generations?

Perhaps... but I would have to say the last time that the Berman era made me care for Star Trek was, ironically, All Good Things.

Say what you will about people "growing up"... "changing tastes" or "moving on". I say that the sci-fi geek is alive and well inside of me waiting for something to come along to get me excited. To move me. To entertain me. I wanted that to be Enterprise so bad. But Enterprise is simply Voyager without the courtesy to actually change the historical look of show (except for a font change).

BORING!

Berman had the chance to doing something great! To create a look that predated The Cage. To go retro! To use the sound effects that make you think STAR TREK! To create a history within the show that made sense!!! Thirty five years of Star Trek history and we are only now seeing the NX01?

CRAP!

Berman had the opportunity to honor a classic show while making it a dramtic piece of entertainment that sat the indusry on it's ear. He didn't do it. Instead... Ron Moore did it and it SUCCEEDS! Good for you, Ron!!!

BSG is must watch TV for me... I am alrady hooked. Hopefully, I'll won't be too disappointed with the Klingo/Bumphead episodes... that is, as long as it doesn't air during BSG.