I’ve just finished watching the latest episode of Enterprise to air in the UK, and to be honest it was great. It didn’t get lost in technobable, nor did it suffer from plot holes the size of the Channel Tunnel. It was just a generally very entertaining hours entertainment.

I have to say that although I particularly enjoyed this episode, most of the rest of the series has been great too. Basically, once series four kicked off, Brannon Braga and Rick Berman handed control to new boy Manny Coto and the series is all the better for it. Berman and Braga only returned to write the reportedly lousy series finale that we get in the UK at the beginning of August.

To be honest, it seems that what the team decided to do in the final series was just go for fan pleasing episodes, the kind of stuff the fans were expecting from the beginning. So tonight we saw the green skinned Orion slave girls again, who appeared in the very first episode of Star Trek, and in the closing credits for many episodes, and other original series aliens were mentioned. The plot was simple, and one that had been done before, with the Orion girls being part of a plan to capture the Enterprise, with all but two of the crew affected, however it was very well executed and entertaining, even having an almost Spock like moment of dead-pan Vulcan humour towards the end.

All in all, had Enterprise been the show it has been during these final episodes from the beginning I’m sure it would have been much more of a success. Anyway, at least Manny Coto has found a new home on 24, and I for one can’t wait to see what effect he has there.