re: #55 Targetpractice

Honestly, the finale felt like the writers throwing up their hands once they realized they had no clue where to go with the whole thing. As though they started with all these interesting ideas, realized midway through that they weren’t going anywhere fast enough, and just chopped them all short to shoehorn in a “happy ending.”

In some ways, it was ended all too neatly, like a slew of past Trek episodes where someone talks everyone out of annihilation.

Enterprise had the same problem getting its mojo and pacing down, but by the time they had it figured out, the series ended. I read an interview of the showrunner, and he dropped hints of interesting things to come, but he also could have been just blowing smoke.