Really?

Due to the crazy scheduling over at syfy, they showed the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.  I already knew most of the details, but had never actually seen it (or, until last week, any other episodes of ST:E).

Let's point out the big problem:

ST:TNG episode "The Pegasus":

ST:E episode "These Are the Voyages...":

The thing I can't understand is why they tried to shoe horn this story into that TNG episode.  I didn't really think it was that good of an episode the first time around.  Crazy admiral gets stupid while Captain Picard, who as you'll note in the above picture, has a whole damn day just for himself, sits around until Riker leads the mutiny of sanity against Crazy Admiral.  I don't really see how this "OMG Engineer Southern dies!" storyline really fits in with that.

Also, the constant callbacks to the other series are kind of painful. "The Next Generation," "All good things," etc.  If you can't write a decent story without filling it with in-jokes for people who have memorized all n-hundred episodes, then you simply aren't a good writer. Stop it. I guess we know why no one trusted Rick Berman with enough money to make any more shows, don't we.

It also would be nice if for the final big scene, the ST:E people could wear fancy clothes instead of the same crap uniforms they've been wearing all day.