Oh, for the love of God, sink this ship.

That's the first line of this article at usatoday.com.

You all know that I am a die-hard Star Trek fan. Any flavor will do. But, like Galactica 1980, there seems to be no saving this poor excuse for a show set in the Star Trek universe.

God, it pains me to write that. I am a big fan of Scott Bakula from his Quantum Leap days (I keep waiting for Archer to say, "Oh, boy.") and I even enjoyed Necessary Roughness, I've met Connor Trineer at a couple of scifi conventions and he seems like a really cool guy, and John Billingsley's performances on Enterprise and SG-1 have been wonderful. So, if the cast can act, what's the problem?

The writing STINKS!

Yeah, I said it. Every single plotline of this show from the series premier, Broken Bow, to the season premier scheduled to air tonight has included time travel. We were promised a show about the birth of the Federation and Starfleet command and all we see is people from the future mucking with the timeline.

STOP USING TIME TRAVEL AS A CRUTCH!!

I had hoped that the "temporal war" would just be a subplot that would surface only from time to time but even when the Enterprise went after the Xindi, they couldn't leave it alone. We still had shadowy beings from the future influencing the past. And now we've got alien Nazis!!?? FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!

So tonight the show returns with a ludicrous time-travel story, bereft of both creativity and taste. To its usual mix of bland characters and indecipherable plots Enterprise adds alien Nazis, who promise their B-movie German allies a "plague targeting non-Aryans."

"No need for extermination camps," the alien says in one of the most cringe-worthy scenes of the new season. Get the word to Standards and Practices: If ever a subject should be kept safely out of the hands of incompetent TV writers, it's the Holocaust.

I couldn't agree more.

Even though the final scene of last season was of Archer being thrown back to WWII, they didn't have to go in that direction. They could have just left it alone and completely ignored the whole Nazi theme. Shows have done it before.

Note to Rick Berman: The only way you're going to save this show is to get the space nazi theme over with as quickly as possible, stop fucking around with time travel - it's a lost cause, and get back your core audience with story lines that employ some plausible science fiction themes. I mean, did you ever watch any of the other Star Trek shows or movies?

And damn you for puting the title Star Trek on this show because now I have to watch it. Feh.

Update: I didn't watch the premier last night. Turns out it's on opposite Joan of Arcadia.