The decontamination gel was so cringe
“The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined time travel is impossible.”
Possibly the most annoying repeated line in TV history.
Like: the Asian woman
Dislike: it wasn’t very goodThat last episode Jesus Christ, so bad.
I liked seeing Captain Archer learn the lessons that would lead to the Prime Directive. Trip was a fun character, and I liked his romance with T’Pol. There were lots of good individual episodes, like the one about T’Pol having Vulcan AIDS, and Shuttlepod One. Any episode Commander Shran was in is great, especially the episode that Archer duels him. Jeffery Colms is the best. Brent Spinner was also great in his little arc. And, I legitimately liked the Xindi.
That said, the timing of the Xindi arc, in the middle of all the real-world stuff going on, was bad, and it had a bad message. I also did not like all the sexual stuff, especially the episode in season 1 where T’Pol gets forced into Pon Farr by a virus, and tries to have sex with everyone. And then just, like, the whole last half of the last season. Mirror Universe, gross. Trip and T’Pol’s baby dying, sad. Riker’s Holodeck cameo finale, disappointing. Fuck Berman.
It was cool because it showed a pre-federation starfleet. Humanity is the underdog scrappy little species trying to get its feet wet in a much larger galactic community. Because starfleet did not have technical parity with other races the stakes felt much higher for each encounter than in TNG or TOS era.
It was lame because it was ENTIRELY too horny. Also the Xindi subplot was painfully obvious as an allusion to the war on terror. It didn’t land for me.
Overall it was a great show though. It explored lots of interesting technical details of the world of Star Trek and attempted to explain their genesis. Reed alert, the prime directive, the paradox of being a diplomatic vessel with MACOs aboard and the jurisdiction of force.
I laughed at the show at its premiere, but by the end I was a die hard fan. They really won me over.
It was lame because it was ENTIRELY too horny. Also the Xindi subplot was painfully obvious as an allusion to the war on terror. It didn’t land for me.
Obligatory Rick Berman is a piece of shit. The War on Terror arc is annoying, but in context I think ENT did a good job with it. For those who weren’t alive or culturally aware at the time of initial airing, basically every piece of media got darker and more fascist-curious in the few years immediately following 9/11. ENT is a great case study in this because the first season had wrapped before 9/11 and the Xindi plot to a very dark turn starting in S2.
Holodeck. Why?
The momentum.
We had 90s Trek rolling, TNG, DS9, Voyager, each one moving the world forward. Each show ends with an exciting “What’s next in the Federation”.
Then Enterprise comes along and takes us back in time. It’s an interesting time period to explore, but not what I was looking for.
We don’t move forward again until Picard, and that was solidly whatever and far removed from the 90s Trek momentum.
You magnificently put into words why I always disliked Enterprise. By failing to continue the original continuity, I think it was basically the end of Star Trek for a lot of us.
I like that we got four seasons of it.
I dislike that we were robbed of a fifth, sixth, and seventh season.
The last two seasons were really promising!
The one thing I hate the most that the killed off Trip in the last episode 😡
When it came out i was hyped, but my interrest quickly faded away, so i haven’t watched it all.
Like: the doc. Some episodes are very philosophycal.
Dislike: nearly all characters are bland average american a and b on a space ship. The intro is awful. The setting. Same problems as with discovery. I love to see the progression of the trek universe those shows add none and are just forced into the already existing history.
The show originally didn’t have “Star Trek” in it’s name, removed recognizable things like the combadge, beaming, holodecks and shields. Also vulcans became straight up dicks and violence was cranked up. It still is a guilty pleasure fans watch, because it still has some of Star Treks previous DNA, but It certainly didn’t age well. It’s ultimately a Rick Berman vanity-project, where he had to backpedal on most of his terrible decisions until it was cancelled for underperforming.
