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Old 09-16-2006, 10:41 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by Tb1
Actually, they only destroyed the original Enterprise in "Search for Spock", and the Enterprise-D in "Generations"
It's called hyperbole. The Enterprise or other ship is in dire jeopardy so much it's become boring.

The original set of movies managed to avoid destroying the Enterprise or necessarily putting it in self destruct/blowing it up/crippling it at every opportunity. Sure, it did happen (Star Treks 2,3 and possibly Undiscovered Country depending...Pardon me for not remembering the title...), but it seemed to be hardly as prevalent.

The same's an issue with Voyager, where the Self Destruct was armed like every 3 episodes. At least with Enterprise, the dire jeopardy made sense: We were using infancy technology against established technology. As bad as the show was, and it was bad, it fit better. It's just that, eventually, it gets repetitive, boring, and every day is the end of the world. They managed to make threats seem impressive in the past without resorting to this shit.
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