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curl-6 on 25 May 2021
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shikamaru317 said:
curl-6 said:

Finally got around to finishing Enterprise.
It really does pick up in Season 3 and 4 after the rather slow and uneven first two seasons. It's a shame it was cut short, and the final episode really does reek of a last-minute plug pull.
It still ranks below Next Gen, DS9, and Voyager for me, but now that I've seen the whole thing I'd still rank it above Discovery and Picard.

Agreed. The first 2 seasons were rough, but 3 and 4 were pretty great. It's just a shame that so many fans abandoned the show during the first 2 seasons, that abandonment lead to weak ratings for season 3 and 4 even though they were good, ultimately leading to an early cancellation. The writers had big plans for seasons 5-7, including a refit of the NX-01 to make it look more like the TOS Enterprise, in order to bridge the design gap:

Other things they had planned for seasons 5-7 were showing the terrible Vulcans of the early seasons starting to shift into the lovable Vulcans of later series on the timeline, the Romulan Wars that lead to the creation of the Neutral zone, more species joining the 4 core Federation species, a Borg Queen origin story showing a Federation medical officer played by Alice Krige making contact with the Borg from Enterprise's season 2 Borg episode and becoming the Borg Queen of First Contact and Voyager, a continuation of the Mirror Universe storyline from earlier seasons, a reveal that T'Pol's father was a Romulan spy making T'Pol half Romulan, a visit to Phlox's home planet of Denobula, an episode focused on the immortal human character Flint from TOS, a visit to the Cloud city of Stratos which had long been mentioned in Star Trek but was never properly shown. The Doctor Who showrunner also said that there was talk of a Doctor Who Enterprise crossover episode before Enterprise was cancelled.

Agreed about how rushed the last episode was. Was the ultimate F U to the cast, making the final episode half TNG. 

Far out, nearly all of that sounds awesome, really sucks that none of it got the chance to happen. It really seems to have been the last gasp of classic Trek, and it deserved a better sendoff.

Nothing since in either film or TV has really had that inquisitive, philosophical, and optimistic spirit that characterized Star Trek from the original series through to Enterprise. I mean, I enjoyed the 2009 reboot and Into Darkness for what they were, but they felt more like Star Wars than Star Trek.

I'm glad I gave Enterprise a second chance after not really liking the early episodes I saw as a kid.