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Cogenitor

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When I was a boy, about 9 I watched Star Trek the original series, and as a boy it had a really powerful effect on me. Not all the episodes, but most of them and a lasting effect that was good that had a positive influence on me as a person. I began to read Science Fiction and listen more in science class and eventually become an engineer. i believe Star Trek had a lot to do with that.

Today, I watched Star Trek Enterprise: Season 2, Episode 22 - Cogenitor, and I have not felt so moved by a Star Trek episode in decades. While I like Star Trek and was happy that there were followon subsequent series I never found many of them very inspiring.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, there was an episode I think called "The Flute" that I thought was the best episode in that series, by far. The newer Star Trek series I felt sidestepped a lot of the passion and morality, even as they tried much harder to be politically correct they just did not grab me the way the original series did when I was a boy.

But this story, and some others in Enterprise ... mostly starting in Season 2, are as good as anything ever done in Star Trek, and i was really touched and impressed. By the time Enterprise came along I was not watching Star Trek anymore, and it is only now that the series is on NetFlix all the seasons basically for free that I get to see this show. I honestly think that this series is as good or better than the original series. Very impressed with the writing and ideas presented here, and the subversive way they are presented that I have not seen on TV or the mainstream media very often in the years since TV became so monolithic and corporate.

I have to say very good job and thank you to everyone involved in Star Trek Enterprise and this episode in particular. With all the special effects, the money and the talent we have, why is it that there are so few things worth watching on TV?

This show is definitely worth watching and 5/5.