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Originally Posted by fresnelly
I thought that Enterprise had good bones (cast, characters, design etc...), but they squandered them with too many plots revolving around political wrangling and parallels to current events.
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Hmm. TOS was mostly morality plays about American culture, TNG the same, DS9 was one big, long exploration of the nature of religion, war and politics (The Federation was the Americans, the Bajorans Jews, the Cardassians Nazis, the shapeshifters Communists, etc.). The prime directive itself is a statement of political philosophy, ie that the more powerful countries should allow the developing nations to develop naturally.
Enterprise maybe didn't have enough SF layered on top of the morality play.