The final episode of Star Trek Enterprise was nothing to write home / here about, especially as it was the finale of the Star Trek series, after 18 consecutive years on the air. (18=9=closures.) I could have come up with better endings for all of the Star Trek series as each did not support what faithful long-time viewers needed to feel a sense of completion. I have never been caught up in the dynamics of any of the crews so none of it mattered to me. But for those who really loved the characters, there were disappointments.

Q from the Continuum

My favorite recurring character in the Star Trek Series was Q from the continuum. Q has the magic and power of creation and destruction among other attributes I know await us on the horizon. There is something about the continuum that has always called to me, as home. Q was played by actor John de Lancie, who was a favorite of mine as far back as the 1970's when he played a psychic in the soap opera 'Days of Our Lives'. De Lancie has also appeared in Stargate SG 1 playing a villain, a government agent, who got pushed out of a UFO by Jack O'Neill. He is also in the series 'Charmed' playing the main 'white lighter', once again a creational force.

Q ... Quintessence

In physics, quintessence is a hypothetical form of dark energy postulated as an explanation of observations of an accelerating universe. Many models of quintessence have a tracker behavior, which partly solves the cosmological constant problem. In these models, the quintessence field has a density which closely tracks (but is less than) the radiation density until matter-radiation equality, which triggers quintessence to start having characteristics similar to dark energy, eventually dominating the universe. This naturally sets the low scale of the dark energy. Some special cases of quintessence are phantom energy, in which w < -1, and k-essence (short for kinetic quintessence) which has a non-standard form of kinetic energy. The name comes from the Classical elements of the ancient Greeks, where a pure "fifth element," the aether, was thought to fill the Universe beyond Earth.

The final episode of Star Trek Enterprise featured Jonathan Frakes' Star Trek Next Generation character Commander Riker as the episode's focal point, making the regulars little more than supporting players in their own swan song. It was a retro take on the "Star Trek" canon, set in a time before the Federation was created.

The show had a few redeeming moments that centered around the use of the holodeck (metaphor for our reality as a program created by a grid matrix) as a place we see characters interacting, or recreating scenarios, as a means to an end. Riker had a problem. We see him in the holodeck using in a program involving the Enterprise crew, set back in time, and how they handled a similar situation that lead to the formation of the Confederation. The main premise here is, watching the starting and stopping of the program as needed, also moving events in the program back or forwarded in time to learn. This is the premise of our reality.

Lt. Troi was the ship's psychologist as well as being an empath and intuitive. "Emotions have a way of contradicting themselves," Riker to Troi in the final episode.

The closing line on Star Trek, spoken by Jonathan Frakes (William Riker) to Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) on the final show ever, brought home the greatest truth of our journey when he said ... Computer End Program!

All that was left were the grids ...

They walked through the door and then they were gone.