 | ClassicTVFan47 (36)
06/10/2005 |  A truly brilliant and spectacular season of Star Trek and easily better than any other current dramas on the air. This season started off with the fun adventure against the Evil Alien Nazis in Storm Front culiminating in the apparent end of the Temporal Cold War. Next, we started to see the amazing number of tie-ins with other shows in the epic Star Trek universe in two-or-three-episode-arcs. The Augments arc with guest star Brent Spiner was particularly good with a tie-in to the Eugenics Wars and the people like Khan. The Vulcan arc was quite good--with help from awesome Trek novelists Judith and Garfield Reeves-Steven and UBER-TOS fan Manny Coto--helping explain the apparent divergence in Vulcan behavior in ENT to TOS and beyond. Observer Effect was an excellent stand-alone episode with the classic Trek humanism and a surprise TOS-tie-in at the end. The arc involving the Romulans, Andorians, and Tellarites was great and definately laid the framework for the beginning of the Federation with great form. Bound was another great stand-alone episode that brought back the Orion Slave Girls. In A Mirror Darkly, we saw what happened to the Defiant from TOS's The Tholian Web in a unique mirror-universe adventure. And, the series ended with the excellent These Are The Voyages... with a nice TNG-tie in and perfectly-recreated Next Gen sets and an awesome CG Enterprise-D. The last thirty seconds of the finale ended with a montage that would make any trekker tear up showing all of the major Enterprises fly by with voiceovers from Picard, Kirk, and Archer of those classic words that began with the opening sequence of the original Star Trek in 1966. Truly, this season was one of Star Trek's very best.
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