Talk:Acquisition (Star Trek: Enterprise)

Continuity

The appearance of the Ferengi was considered controversial. It is difficult to find reliable sources about audience or fan response but I think I've found it. Star Trek Communicator issue 139 says the episode was controversial for breaking continuity by featuring the Ferengi and seemingly contradicting the TNG episode The Last Outpost. One of the writers acknowledging that it was controversial but disagreed, and thought that the episode was structured in a way that did not contradict the official continuity.

Not sure how best to add this detail to the article. Maybe the comments from the writer could be used to present it as a note from the Production perspective, or reaction from fans could perhaps be mentioned in terms of Reception. If someone else could add something about it to the article, in whatever way they think is best, that would be great. -- 109.78.193.228 (talk) 01:17, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

(In the aforementioned article above) Fan and Star Trek book author Alex Rozenweig[1] was critical of the decision to introduce the Ferengi. (Page 49 introduces Rozenweig, on page 50 he says "producers walked the line on this one".) From the perspective of writing for Wikipedia it is interesting to me how the article finds a reliable source to act as a voice to establish "fan opinion" but probably will not use that, and instead I'll skip ahead and just add the response from story editor Mike Sussman defending the decision. (The fact that the Production staff were defending the decision already implies there was some negative reaction to defend against.) I'm going to add that bit from Sussman to the Production section, and use the Reception section to respond to it, specifically using part of the review from Tor.com. I am explaining my reasoning here, in case other editors decide to rewrite the Reception section (to try and bring this to Featured Article level) so that hopefully they will consider preserving the underlying intent of setup and response, even if they change the words entirely. -- 109.78.197.28 (talk) 18:37, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Ratings

Among first run science fiction or fantasy genre shows that week Enterprise was in 2nd place[2] only that doesn't actually mean much since a whole load of show were off that week. X-Files was way ahead with 7.3 million viewers (7.29) compared to 5.4 million (5.45) for Enterprise.[3] TrekWeb notes that this episode was only slightly up from the previous week and was third to last in ratings of the episodes that had been aired by that point. The article does lists the raw numbers, but for most readers (myself included) that means almost nothing without further explanation, even something like "up from the previous week" but still down, might be worth a mention. I may come back and add something like that eventually. -- 109.78.197.28 (talk) 19:13, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Zap2it Fast National ratings for Wednesday, March 27, 2002.[4] Enterprise in 4th place for the evening, same as most weeks. (TrekWeb list the overnight ratings[5] but the comment on the final ratings above, is more interesting anyway.)

Looked through the Variety.com archives, Enterprise got an indirect mention, the ratings for the next show, a basketball highlights special, dropped dramatically from the Enterprise lead in.[6][7] The business matters with Viacom CBS and UPN are part of the larger picture but not specifically relevant to this episode article. -- 109.78.197.28 (talk) 01:23, 16 April 2022 (UTC)