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Watching Enterprise for the very first time
(startrek.website)
I'm finding it a very root-beer-flavored entry in the franchise.
Yes! They are so fallible, and believably so most the time, that I really appreciated their missteps.
The only time I didn't appreciate thinking was when it decontamination time. I just pretend it is like watching an old b/w show with an embedded detergent ad: an unfortunate relic of its time that is just baked into it.
Decontamination time is fucking stupid. Like, the idea of it is good because we literally did that with Apollo, but in practice it's just a chance to have semi-erotic fanfic play out as canon.
What's so odd about those scenes is that the camera is far hornier than the actors. The crew is mostly very professional and chaste about decon, but the camera is leering at their bodies as they do it.
I drew the line at them dragging Porthos of all beings into it. Like they thought that would legitimize it.