These Are the Voyages...

All I can say about this finale is that it was complete and utter trash. Bringing in Troi and Riker was a mistake of monumental proportions. Not to mention having two "ledgends" on the show stole the thunder from the cast of the Enterprise.

I have heard that Jolene ( T'Pol ) has stated that the final episode of Enterprise is "total crap" and that she was embarrassed to be a part of it, this is an opinion that is shared by both Scott Bakula and Connor Trinneer.

Personally I think Braga's comment about this episode as being a " Valentine to the fans" is total B.S. and he can shove his Valentine where the sun don't shine.

In a word... SHAMEFUL!!!!

In what would have been a fine premise for a standard episode, Riker's uncertainties in the Holodeck simply blemished the Enterprise farewell. The death of Tripp left me feeling as violated as a drive-by shooting witness. Senseless and gratuitous, it still baffles me that this seemed like a good idea to anybody. The episode, arguably the worst of the four year run, probably contributes to the trepidation of Paramount in allowing a new TV series to this day. All of that being said, I don't HATE it. It is Star Trek, and it features people that I've enjoyed for years. Hopefully, any new adaptation in the Star Trek universe will put this episode into perspective as a teachable moment and the producers will remember rule number one. The fans are the only reason that Star Trek exists. Abusing their loyalty will have repercussions.

I fully understand why this finale let down fans, especially those who watched the series in real time rather than binging it years later online. Yet I am okay with viewing this as the creators suggested, as a "coda" with the previous 2-parter as the true finale.

I am hugely sentimental, and this is why I appreciated the Next Generation callback. Typically I don't actually like guest appearances from a previous cast because they are cheap, and thus I despised the Troi/Reg episodes of Voyager.

But here, I can imagine the first Enterprise crew as having existed all along within the TNG episode "Pegasus," and existing forever to be called up and viewed when a crewmember of a future starship wants to watch the founding of Earth's space travel program in their holodeck. Otherwise, it's just too sad to me to think that all these characters are dead by the time TNG and the other spinoffs come around!

I won't recapitulate all the negative reviews of this horrible episode (with which I agree, incidentally); however, I noticed that even IMDb subtly disapproves, listing all the cast of "Enterprise" with the designation "(hologram)" next to their characters' names, suggesting it was as if...there weren't really even there.

Touche! The fact is, the B&B send off reduced the cast of "Enterprise" to ghostly afterthoughts, not unlike hologram characters -- photonic images created by the bending of light, and not fully-formed, fleshed out characters. The cast that dedicated four years of their respective careers deserved much better than to be pushed to one side (WAY to one side!) to make way for the bulky Riker and Troi.

A disgrace. (I gave it a four, simply because I liked the Shran story line, and Jeffrey Combs is always a welcome presence.)

To be blunt and to the point i didn't see much of a point to this episode. It took me a while to get into Enterprise and then they go and end it like that, it totally blew it for me. The whole link to Next Gen was a desperate one if they where gonna like it to another show they could have used time travel and had Captain Archer give his speech(one we actually get to hear rather than end programme) then leave on a new mission only to be flung into the future and get pick up during the anniversary of there disappearance in the Next Gen time line, i was always looking forward to more from this show.

There was always that rumour that they were gonna pull kirk out of the Nexus in there end of the time line.