Star Trek Enterprise fans: what did you think of Ensign Elizabeth Cutler, played by Kellie Waymire?
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October 31st, 2013
“Dear Doctor” – season one, episode 13 has become one of my all time favorites both because of her starring role in the episode and because of the focus on the Doctor’s moral dilemma… Here’s the wiki page on her character: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cutler
You can watch most of the Enterprise episodes for free now online at the CBS website so I go out to see this one every so often…
Kellie seemed like such a sweetheart and her tragic loss at a young age still affects me when I watch the episode.
I’ve watched all the Star Trek series over the years but Enterprise has become my favorite…
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We didn’t see enough of her. I very much liked that she valued other cultures and species instead of fearing or being repulsed by them. She played a gentle, inquisitive soul and she seemed to be just that. Yes, her loss at so young an age was sad. I’m glad they decided not to recast her role. It would have been a hard act to follow.
Enterprise never happened.
That is all.
I liked her character. I didn’t realize that the actress had died – she was so young!
I hate “enterprise” and I especially hate this episode.
It is not a moral dilemma. At. All.
It was a choice between “help this species survive” and “let all of them die” out of some retarded notion that evolution dictates your fate as a species and your choices.
The same “logic” leads to this “moral dilemma”: Should I give you a medical treatment that would save your life, or should I let you die in horrible pain because death, desease and pain are natural parts of life? It is not a moral dilemma because as a doctor, Phlox should have already rejected the second option the moment he decided to become a doctor.
Then there was the wrong assumption that keeping the higher developed species alive will automatically doom the other one to eternal servitude and a developmental dead end.
It was already clear that the two species are cooperating with each other.
The Menk were not being held in zoos, but they were integrated into the Valakians’ society, and even during this setup, the Menk were already developing technological understanding, so you can not argue that this situation inhibits their development.
If anything, being incorporated into the Valakians’ culture accelerated it and it would have only progressed more as they would be given more complex tasks and rights, eventually ending up as fully equal partners in a symbiotic, cooperative two species planetary society.
The entire episode, as with so many of Enterprise, is a disgrace to Star Trek.
Enterprise was terrible. The theme song alone made me despise it.
@flip86 Yeah, the theme song was utterly infuriating. As was the “USA #1” footage that accompanied it. Totally against the spirit of everything Roddenberry had tried to create.
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