Except for finding reverseBe trekkin' up that road
Be trekkin' up that hill
With no problems....
That I’ll certainly agree with. What, a more “truckin’” version of the theme will attract more viewers, somehow?
It's the same season they finally added "Star Trek" to the title. So yeah, I'd say they were pretty desperate to figure out ways to bring viewers back.
Another way they tried was to court Ira Steven Behr to come on board. Which did not go well, as Ira was very honest about what he thought needed to change, and they were ultimately not amenable.
They shortened the credit sequence for that season and in order to fit the theme into the compressed timeslot, a new mix had to be done, which had the unfortunate side effect of sounding more upbeat, completely at odds with the more serious tone of the season.
Interesting, didn’t know that about Behr. But at least adding “Star Trek” made sense since, after all, it was.
Quote from Behr in 2004:
"Rick called me up, it was his initiative. He asked me had I seen ENTERPRISE, I told him no. He asked if I could look at it--they were thinking maybe of stepping back and that 'this be another DS9 experience,' whatever that meant. I didn’t really think it over in terms of what were the chances of that reality happening again.
They sent me the three shows, I went in, had a two hour meeting with Rick and Brannon. It was a very cordial meeting, but everything I said I am sure they did not like hearing. I would not liked to have heard it if someone came into my office and talked as bluntly as I was talking to them.
Though again, it was done all cordially. After it was over I am sure they were uncomfortable, I was very uncomfortable, we shook hands, Rick said, 'Well, all interesting stuff, we’ll think it over,' and I never heard from him again."
Quote from Braga in 2014:
"We brought Ira Steven Behr in. I was so desperate to bring in an additional high-level person [...] I needed help. And we brought Ira in.
He came in to the office and he shit all over the show. I mean, he shit on the show like I've never heard. Like...all the crabby internet stuff balled into one nuclear weapon.
He fucking blasted the show. Hated the characters, hated the concept, thought it was a piece of shit. And it was like, one hell of a job interview.
And uh, I don't even know why he came to be honest. But at the same time I saw [...] some of his critiques were not invalid. I think he was basically saying 'I wanna come in and shake this place up', and I think at that point Rick and I weren't quite looking for that level of shake-up.
But I didn't begrudge him for it, it was kind of entertaining. I'm appreciative to him for doing that. It wasn't pleasant, it was kind of shocking, but I appreciated it."
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That's fundamentally rude, to invite someone in to solicit their opinion and, when they come and do what you ask, to question why they even bothered to come.
That’s unfortunate. For all that of course it had flaws, I liked Enterprise, a lot. What changes I’d have added would mostly have been expansions on elements already present, not some wholesale reworking.
This actually makes me respect Ira Steven Behr as a storyteller even more than I did before.
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There was too much Xindi stuff in season 3 just like there was too much Borg stuff in the last 2 Voyager sasons.
The Xindi were the entire point of the season. It remains, in my opinion, Star Trek's only truly successful example of serialized storytelling over the course of an entire season.
I'm not going to argue with that at all. It was certainly a better attempt than most anything Discovery tried to do, and up there with DS9's Dominion arc. Easier to digest because it was contained to a single season and I thought it flowed pretty nicely.
I'd argue Prodigy is right up there, and they nailed a forty-episode arc across its two seasons.
That's fair.
But those were mini-arcs, not one long season arc. And yes the Vulcan Trilogy was an amazing trilogy for Enterprise. I liked it just as much as I liked DS9's CIrcle Trilogy, and I liked that a lot too.
I said DISCO S4, not ENT S4.
That's an understatement. It was a great story. It also could have been told in half as many episodes and cut out that entire middle stretch of the season where nothing seemed to happen.
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