ENT premiered 15 years ago this coming evening on UPN with "Broken Bow" launching the series on its four-year run and scoring the highest-ever ratings for the show. The debut came just a little more than two weeks after the terror attacks of 9/11 and the prequel series will always be associated in my mind with those tragedies in part because the Suliban antagonists were later acknowledged to be named in part after the Taliban of Afghanistan who soon became one of the biggest enemies and targets of the Western world in its coordinated military response to the attacks.
On September 26, 2001, we were finally introduced to the 22nd century and to Earth and Starfleet history that we'd only heard random facts about over the decades in the other TV series and films including First Contact. We got to see what Starfleet was like before it was rechartered into a multispecies and interplanetary service of the United Federation of Planets and get glimpses of the 22nd century Earth we'd heard occasional references to but never seen with our own eyes. In hindsight what were your biggest joys in watching the two-hour premiere? Who were your favorite characters and why? What disappointed you about Berman and Braga's vision of pre-Federation humanity and Starfleet, and what would you have changed had you been in creative control of the series?
On September 26, 2001, we were finally introduced to the 22nd century and to Earth and Starfleet history that we'd only heard random facts about over the decades in the other TV series and films including First Contact. We got to see what Starfleet was like before it was rechartered into a multispecies and interplanetary service of the United Federation of Planets and get glimpses of the 22nd century Earth we'd heard occasional references to but never seen with our own eyes. In hindsight what were your biggest joys in watching the two-hour premiere? Who were your favorite characters and why? What disappointed you about Berman and Braga's vision of pre-Federation humanity and Starfleet, and what would you have changed had you been in creative control of the series?
