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You know, as much as I like Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, I really wish they'd capped their "two hour event" at one hour. (Oh, and how are two completely unrealted episoded back to back a "two-hour finale"?)

I've been reading that the Enterprise cast were not happy with the finale, and, holy cow, I can't blame them. What kind of a slap in the face is it when the main characters of a show are set as the b-plot of an epsiode of another show entirely? As a mid-season episode, the conceit might have been cute. As a finale, it was terrible. In fact, except for the fact that the "big speech" was the treaty signing, and telling is in dialogue that T'Pol and Trip broke up, there was no reason for this episode to be set "six years in the future". Nobody's hairstyle even changed. This should have been a mid-season episode, with the rescue set in the regular timeline.

I can kind of see why they broke up T'Pol and Trip (because otherwise they'd have no excuse for them not to have spawned, and then Spock wouldn't have been such a shock as a halfbreed in his generation), but no idea why they felt the need to kill Trip. Did they not like the actor and wanted to cut him out of potential movie money later? It didn't really have any plot relevance, and, after these seasons we already know the characters are heroes, so that hardly needed to be underscored.

It was just so... pointless. We didn't even see the big speech at the end. And ok, the montage of Enterprises back in time was cute, although it was totally tacked on. They could have tacked it onto the end of any epsisode and called it a finale.

Ah well, at least it's over.