YMMV / Star Trek Enterprise S 04 E 21 These Are The Voyages

• Angst? What Angst?: Reed, Travis and Hoshi all act quite jovial in their final scene, despite their good friend for ten years dying at most three days ago.
• Audience-Alienating Ending: Big time. "These Are The Voyages...", is infamously loathed by Trek fans due to the fact that's essentially a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode featuring the Enterprise cast, showing Riker and Troi watching a holographic recreation of the show during the events of the TNG episode "The Pegasus", despite the fact that both Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis had noticeably aged since TNG's original time. Notably, producer Manny Coto stated that he personally considered this episode to be a coda rather than the true finale of the series, with he and fellow series producer Mike Sussman considering "Demons" and "Terra Prime" that precede this installment to be the actual finale. It didn't help that series creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, who penned the episode, originally described "These Are The Voyages..." as "a valentine to all the Star Trek shows" before going back on that sentiment years later.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans consider "Terra Prime" as the series finale to the show than this one for a good reason. Even the usually neutral transcript site Chakoteya.net has footnotes to this effect, calling it worse than "Spock's Brain."
• Misaimed Fandom: For those who strongly disliked this show, and wanted it erased from "Star Trek" canon by ending with "computer, end program," this finale was the answer to their prayers.
• Stock Footage Failure: An establishing shot of Ten-Forward was taken from the third season episode "Menage à Troi", due to the lack of a full set. Unfortunately, not only does the lighting in the TNG footage and the Enterprise footage not match at all — which, granted, would have been quite hard to get right seeing how TNG was shot on film, while this series used HD video — but the way it's edited makes it look like there's two Rikers in the scene (unless Thomas Riker was visiting during that episode). Also, several extras in the scene are wearing the old collarless uniforms, even though they had been long retired in this Season 7 episode.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The problems with the episode's infamous set up would disappear if the TNG era parts were simply smaller and took place on a later date (i.e. post-Star Trek: Nemesis) rather than clumsily retconned into a pre-existing episode and ENT parts were actual historical footage instead of what is essentially a videogame.
  • Also, Archer's speech was a major missed opportunity, given how its importance was built up throughout the episode.
  • They could've had Captain (even Admiral) Riker and his wife Deanna on the Titan telling their children about the great Captain Archer.

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