Yes, the difference between Bakula in "Quantum Leap" and in "Enterprise" is such a disappointment; they got in a good actor who could act without being shouty (before I veer off on too much of a tangent, I hate the confusion that sincerity or emotion requires SHOUTING to convey that emotion rather than acting) and who wasn't going to be an action hero in the vein of Kirk (and I have nothing against Captain Kirk's command style) - and then they didn't let him act and didn't know what they wanted to do with him before they turned him into an action hero with that war arc silliness.
I'd given up on it before then, though. I had a bad feeling from the theme tune on (really, that was the worst kind of theme tune -instead of being inspiring and evocative of a newly-unified world heading out to explore space, it was more like "sit-com hijinks with bunch of 20-somethings in the big city!")
Also, that bloody beagle. I'm sorry if this comes across as animal hate, because it's not, but pets on a first-time out long-range space mission where the tech is still new and untried, living space aboard is limited, and resources have to be carefully calculated and justified for taking up room and fuel expenditure is just not on.
Kes had a built-in expiry date, but I was hoping against hope that they'd pull off some kind of "Oh, hey, life extension through technobabble or advanced alien intervention!" because come on, are we still going to keel over dead if there are more than three females at the one time as leads in a TV show? Why couldn't they kill off Neelix and keep Kes to go with Seven and B'Elanna and Janeway (and the Wildmans, both mother and daughter)?
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I'd given up on it before then, though. I had a bad feeling from the theme tune on (really, that was the worst kind of theme tune -instead of being inspiring and evocative of a newly-unified world heading out to explore space, it was more like "sit-com hijinks with bunch of 20-somethings in the big city!")
Also, that bloody beagle. I'm sorry if this comes across as animal hate, because it's not, but pets on a first-time out long-range space mission where the tech is still new and untried, living space aboard is limited, and resources have to be carefully calculated and justified for taking up room and fuel expenditure is just not on.
Kes had a built-in expiry date, but I was hoping against hope that they'd pull off some kind of "Oh, hey, life extension through technobabble or advanced alien intervention!" because come on, are we still going to keel over dead if there are more than three females at the one time as leads in a TV show? Why couldn't they kill off Neelix and keep Kes to go with Seven and B'Elanna and Janeway (and the Wildmans, both mother and daughter)?
Oh, well. One of these days!