If you could change a single scene in Enterprise...

[SFRabid]

If you could change a scene in Enterprise what would it be? Not an episode, just a scene. Something that had you thinking “That was a good episode until…”

My choice, the early decon scene with Trip and T’Pol. I don’t remember the exact episode but it was very early in season 1. It was the first episode I saw and it gave me a bad impression of the series. At the time I thought the target market and idea must be cheap thrills for teenagers. This scene would have really worked later in the series. Let the characters develop, and put it in an episode where it could be a point that Trip comes to the uncomfortable realization that he has feelings for the Vulcan, and T’Pol would have to come to terms with falling for a human. As aired they were too professional. Later it could have been a scene where they struggled to remain professional and struggled to hide their desires from each other.



How long until someone mentions "the episode with will not be named?"

 

[Bacl]

All of them.

 

[Captain X]

Picking just a single one would be pretty hard. I can only really narrow it down to one of two - either the "morning after" discussion at the end of Harbinger to something mature that would have the two of them trying to work something out, or I'd make the dream sequence in Damage real, sans the Vulcan zombie bit or course. That would be sufficient to change a direction I didn't particuliarly care for, but to be honest there is a lot about ENT I wish I could change.

 

[number6]

I would have Trip's future uncertain, instead of having him die. Now I'm not one of those "Trip.Not.Dead" people.. The only problem I had with killing Trip off was that it was done so haphazardly. I think it would have been dramatically more potent to leave Trip's fate uncertain. His sacrifice would have weighed heavier on Archer, not knowing whether he would live or die. I think it would have given TATV the sense of drama the episode sorely lacked.

 

[JNG]

I know this is incredibly dorky and not really in keeping with the spirit of the thread, but I hope you will forgive me for it: I would sure like to alter the scene in the pilot that places the Klingon homeworld as only four days away. It just bugs me on so many levels.

 

[jgdst]

I think I'd vote for the decon scene in Broken Bow or one of the more cringeworthy neuropressure scenes - Harbinger's is a strong contender.

 

[DarKush]

Space Nazis reveal at the end of Season 3. ENT had done such a great job building up to the final confrontation with the Xindi and that curve ball really took away from a great arc.

 

[ChristopherPike]

These Are The Voyages...

The scene beginning with Archer & Trip running from the Captain's Dining Room, down the corridor then stopped by those two nameless alien pirates. Replace that whole section and rejoin the action in sickbay, as Phlox works to keep the critically injured Trip alive. If he has to die (and I've never been opposed to it), come up with something more tasteful than suddenly becoming a suicide bomber.

 

[Penguin]

I am with Captain X, Morning after scene was incredibly stupid. Trip and T-Pol should have been affirming what ahppened the night before, That "Experiment" baloney didn't sit well.

The shower scene in Damage could have been turned into a real sexual encounter between Trip and T-Pol after leaving the shower. Leaving out that zombie crap.

Either one although I would take Harbinger over damage.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

If you could change a scene in Enterprise what would it be?

Great thread!

I'm sure I could think of a lot of episodes I'd like to turn in a different direction, but the one that popped into my head first was "Home."

Before the wedding, when T'Les and Trip were talking, and she told him, essentially, to 'fess up to T'Pol that he was in love with her, but Trip passed on his big chance...what if T'Les had stopped the wedding?

If she had brought the whole thing to a screeching halt right in mid-pomp and circumstance (hoo boy, the looks on Koss's parents' faces), and given some indication that she didn't care about her job or Vulcan propriety or whatever, giving T'Pol a chance to speak her true mind...now that would have been interesting.

 

[Mach5]

If you could change a scene in Enterprise what would it be?

Great thread!

I'm sure I could think of a lot of episodes I'd like to turn in a different direction, but the one that popped into my head first was "Home."

Before the wedding, when T'Les and Trip were talking, and she told him, essentially, to 'fess up to T'Pol that he was in love with her, but Trip passed on his big chance...what if T'Les had stopped the wedding?

If she had brought the whole thing to a screeching halt right in mid-pomp and circumstance (hoo boy, the looks on Koss's parents' faces), and given some indication that she didn't care about her job or Vulcan propriety or whatever, giving T'Pol a chance to speak her true mind...now that would have been interesting.

I agree 100%!
Although (I have to say) I loved that T'les/Trip scene at the end (it showed us that the old Vulcan had a heart after all), the more logical thing for T'les to do would be to tell these things to T'pol instead of Trip. Something on the lines of: "Daughter, it's your life, your path, your decision..." blah blah.

 

[SPCTRE]

If you could change a scene in Enterprise what would it be? Not an episode, just a scene. Something that had you thinking “That was a good episode until…”

My choice, the early decon scene with Trip and T’Pol. I don’t remember the exact episode but it was very early in season 1. It was the first episode I saw and it gave me a bad impression of the series. At the time I thought the target market and idea must be cheap thrills for teenagers. This scene would have really worked later in the series. Let the characters develop, and put it in an episode where it could be a point that Trip comes to the uncomfortable realization that he has feelings for the Vulcan, and T’Pol would have to come to terms with falling for a human. As aired they were too professional. Later it could have been a scene where they struggled to remain professional and struggled to hide their desires from each other.



How long until someone mentions "the episode with will not be named?"

Nice one! I just read the thread title and was about to name just the scene you mentioned.

 

[cooleddie74]

Trip's death in "TATV."

It didn't need to be so contrived, cheap and hamfistedly executed(no pun intended). It also happened too quickly for fans to really absorb what was happening to the poor guy after four years of following his exploits on the show. No memorable, meaningful death at the hands of a real adversary with teeth and purpose. Just a cheap on-screen snuff moment where the most popular character on the show commits suicide to kill several forehead-of-the-week alien bad guys with less development and purpose than a pig fetus.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'd give Malcolm's hot sister more screentime in "Silent Enemy."

(She was on SVU a couple of weeks ago. Hawt. )

 

[cooleddie74]

I'd show more nightmares about Trip's sister dying in the Xindi attack on Florida. Add to Trip's emotional baggage and grief by dragging more of his sorrow out into the open.

 

[E-Blonde]

I'd dump the Archer buried in T'Pol's breasts scene in Shadows of P'Jem for the same reason as the decon scene in Broken Bow. It didn't add to the drama and targeted a younger audience that goes to other places to get a whole lot more cheap thrills.

 

[JiNX-01]

You know what? As much as I love Enterprise, all this thread does is demonstrate the impossibility of selecting only one scene that really, truly needed fixing.

And since I consider "These Aren't The Voyages" as nothing more than a Holo-Lie ...

I'd replace the scene in "The Expanse" when Trip and Malcolm go to Trip's devastated hometown. Instead, I'd have Forrest arrange for Mom and Dad Tucker to have real-time contact with Trip while the ship is speeding back to Earth. Trip doesn't want to see them because he's trying to hold himself together and knows he'll lose it, especially seeing his mother.

 

[arch101]

Trop wouldn't die. But then again, I normally disregard TATV as the final ep since Archer's speech in the previous ep was the obvious end to the series.

 

[Judge King]

The end of Storm Front. Archer would hail SF Command and ask; "Where the f**k were those damn ships?"

I would also do a modified one on TATV in which Trip asks: Where the f**k were those damn MACOs?"

 

[jgdst]

The end of Storm Front. Archer would hail SF Command and ask; "Where the f**k were those damn ships?"

I would also do a modified one on TATV in which Trip asks: Where the f**k were those damn MACOs?"

LOL! That's my favourite one so far. Would've been a great end to the Xindi arc.