Forgetting History, Doomed to Repeats

Okay, I'll admit it, I started watching Star Trek: Enterprise last season with moderate interest. The whole thing started because I was curious about since-canceled Jake 2.0, and have this thing where I'll tape the show before or after the one I want if I'm curious about it. Plus, taping Enterprise means not having to deal with that godawful Diane Warren theme song, through the wonderful power of fast-forward.

Anyway, I set up my TiVo to start getting it now, and watching the season premiere, assumed that the weird time-warp Nazi setting was a rerun from the first season, which I didn't watch, because it's such a hackneyed, overdone concept. So I deleted it. And the one afterwards, as I was confused as to why they were having a victory celebration when they hadn't finished the story arc yet.

Of course, they did, but I completely forgot where the narrative was at the end of last season. Other than the fact that they were close to stopping the end of the world, I had nuthin'. So it's a particularly memorable show, clearly. Especially since I explicitly set TiVo to just get new episodes, and yet the premiere so emphatically didn't ring any bells that I forgot that fact.

Now I'm having Babylon 5 flashbacks, as the crew faces a threat from what look like extras from a music video shoot, although I haven't quite gotten a bead on the genre. Not quite as obviously Dream Academy as B5's ridiculous renegade telepaths in the show's final season.