
Since I'm a collector - read hamster with OCD - at heart, I have been gradually completing my collection of the various Star Trek shows.
And, as an odd experiment, I tried to watch the Star Trek Enterprise Finale again, you know, that one, to see if maybe years after the burning rage and open mouthed staring subsided, I could find redeeming things in it. However, I found that burning rage and open-mouthed staring never really dies.
I have seen lots and lots of shows in my life. Some were bad, some mediocre, some good, some flip-flopped between those. There have been shows with endings that made you sad a show ended - Sarah Connor Chronicles Finale completely turned my mind around after the lackluster second half of second Season, or glad it was put out of its misery - Stargate Atlantis imploded in the second half of Season 5, or made you feel like you didn't want to end it there even though it was kind of fitting - Angel, or made you shake your head for the quick fix - Voyager, or make you shrug lackluster-like - lots of them. Basically, the whole variety.
But no show, bad or good, none has ever been treated as respectless as that one. No show has ever had their own final episode taken away from that show and given to another. Never in the entire history of television do I remember or know of such a case. *still speechless*
Seeing who the one fan-favourite is and cruelly killing them for absolutely nothing but shock value? Okay, that has been done. Not dying for any heroics? Also done. Having noone care about it or really acknowledge it and not even a little eulology? Less so but it has happened. But this? They truly boldly went...
Fuck each and everyone of them.
Man, I think I'm gonna watch Darmok or something uplifting now.