What is your honest opinion of Enterprise?

[indolover]

My honest opinion is that it should get 5 out of 10. It had some good stories now and then, but I can't think of any episodes that warrant "best ever" status. No The Inner Lights/Darmoks/The Drumheads/In the Pale Moonlights/Duets/Year of Hells.

Season 4 was well done, especially the Klingon Augments and the Aenar episodes. One thing also is that Linda Park is seriously hot! And smart too, she can speak four languages.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I think 'forgotten' is on the level with the other episodes you mentioned (certainly YOH doesn't belong in this same universe of great shows). It earns it by being great, but it would have earned it just for Connor's big scene, where he breaks down

 

[6079SmithW]

It was much more of a prequel to TNG than it ever was to TOS.

 

[Dukhat]

I think I would have appreciated it more if it hadn't been billed as a prequel to TOS. That right there made me dislike it from the beginning. If the show had had the same characters and stories but had been about, say, the Enterprise-B instead of the NX-01, I think I would have been fine with it. And UPN being more interested in showing the crew in their underwear, or T'Pol's buttcrack, instead of showing the formation of the Federation, didn't help either.

And I also would have appreciated it more if more thought went into it, or if there was more time to develop it instead of just quickly debuting it so soon after Voyager ended.

It was much more of a prequel to TNG than it ever was to TOS.

You posted the same time I did, but that's essentially correct. The Akiraprise! Ferengi! Borg! Remans! Klingons who act just like TNG Klingons! A ship called the Bor'tas! A Klingon dude named Duras! J.G. Hertzler! Jeffery Coombs! A Soong ancestor! Holodecks! Cloaking devices! Riker! Troi! (need I go on?)

 

[Shatnertage]

I like it. Some (well, several) of the stories let me down, but I honestly like the look and feel of the show better than any other. Granted, that's not the main reason to watch--I'd say characters and stories are--but it's an important element.

When everything clicked, it was great. I tend to like the lighter-hearted episodes better, but they did serious well at times too, particularly in the Xindi arc.

 

[Admiral Shran]

I love it. It's my second favorite series, after DS9.

It had some good stories now and then, but I can't think of any episodes that warrant "best ever" status. No The Inner Lights/Darmoks/The Drumheads/In the Pale Moonlights/Duets/Year of Hells.

I'd say that Azati Prime, Damage, The Forgotten, The Forge, Awakening, Kir'Shara, Babel One, United, and In a Mirror, Darkly I & II all warrant a "best ever" label.

It was much more of a prequel to TNG than it ever was to TOS.

That doesn't bother me at all, seeing as how TOS is my least favorite of the series.

 

[star]

I'm with Admiral Shran... except the DS9 thingy (only because I've just started watching that series for the first time).

I like the "fly by the seat of our pants" thing about ENT. It's more frontiers-y. Computers don't solve problems, there's no prime directive so the crew makes mistakes. Sure there's some crappy episodes, but I even think that first season ENT holds up better than the first season of many of the other Trek series.

It's the only Trek that I've ever felt compelled to write fanfiction for, do artwork, etc.

To me, the non-uber-trek-fan, that says a lot.

 

[Leathco]

My fave of all the series......from top to bottom is

Enterprise
Deep Space Nine
The Next Generation
The Original Series
The Animated Series
Voyager (Not a bad series, just not my fave)

I loved the season 3 story arc, and all the links from season 4 to the original series. Seasons 1 and 2, while not as strong as the other 2 seasons, still had some great episodes. I really liked the idea of the Cold War, even if the payoff wasn't that great.

As far as the whole "Akiraprise" thing, yea, it did look a bit too close, but for all the similarities, there were a few good things too. TOS style nacelles were a plus. The shuttlepod launch area was a great section of the ship that to me seemed totally realistic, more realistic than TNGs warp powered shuttles and force fields that let the shuttle pass through. It kinda looks like something NASA would come up with to launch and retrieve pods.

There were parts I disliked though, like Engineering. It seemed rather sparse for a engine room for prototype technology, I'd expect more stuff in the room. Having the controls for the engine right in front of it seemed rather dangerous too.

However, the bridge is my fave bridge out of any ship. I just love the look of it.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Honestly?

IMO, ENT had some great stuff and some not so great stuff. I do think there were some major mistakes made, but also some really cool ideas that came out of it as well.

 

[Goliath]

I found it very disappointing.

I've seen every other Trek series. I even stuck with VOY to the bitter end. But I stopped watching ENT in the middle of Season 2. I just didn't like it.

 

[Admiral Shran]

^ You really ought to give it a second chance. Seasons 3 and 4 are markedly better.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

A solid 7 out of 10. I like the Akiraprise, I've never gotten why it's such a problem. Whatever, it's just personal taste. I dislike the gratuitous scantily-clad-massage-with-decon-gel-for-no-reason scenes and the way the Tucker/T'Pol relationship was handled, the acting had it's off moments as did the episodes, some of my favorite characters were left undeveloped, but other than that I quite enjoyed the series.

I agree that it's a prequel to TNG, that actually makes sense. Although most of it's prequel-ness is more continuity-nod-ness.

 

[F. King Daniel]

About ten seconds into "Broken Bow" I realized that TPTB were throwing out all the little tidbits of Trek backstory and the pre-TOS era depicted in old Trek novels, and doing their own thing. I went in with an open mind and I loved it. Then came the rest, and I didn't care any more. Recycled same-old-shit stories, tedious cack like "Fusion" - it was on in the background every week, but I didn't pay much attention. I recall being annoyed that such awesome oppertunites, like first contact with the Romulans, were being pissed away.

Then came season three, which blew my socks off, got me caring about Star Trek again and had me eagerly awaiting next week's episode. My favourite Trek season of all. It wasn't perfect (there were some plotholes and gaps in common sense), but the Xindi were a fantastic and interesting enemy and fresh and fun stories were being told. Archer turning space pirate was utterly surreal.

Season 4 was good too, but overdid the fanwank.



It was the best and worst of Trek.

 

[BillJ]

It had its' moments, but was a massive missed opportunity.

 

[RyuRoots]

Not a fan. I hate the Akiraprise with a passion (Somehow they flipped an Akira, a ship I love, upside down and managed to make it unappealing. Sort of a feat in itself.), but that doesn't really impact my enjoyment THAT much, it just bugs me.

Additionally, I roll my eyes at "phase pistols" and "hull plating offline!". If you're going to treat them like phasers and shields, just call them that. Though I'd prefer it if they just had traditional firearms, but again, it's just a little irksome.

What sunk ENT for me was the characters. I didn't like any of the big 3. The only good characters were Malcom and Travis to me. I saw stretches of the first two seasons and was extremely unimpressed. I tried out In a Mirror, Darkly as well as The Expanse and a few eps following it. IAMD wasn't for me since I don't like the MU all that much (a friend kept pestering me to see it though), but the S2 finale and the first few eps of S3 were definitely a marked improvement. Archer and Tucker no longer seemed like incompetent twits, T'Pol didn't have a flagpole shoved up her ass, and everything was approached with more subtlety and maturity. Problem was, I just didn't care about anyone. I mean, it sucked about Tucker's sister and their initial setbacks, but I didn't really feel anything. Maybe it'd change if I kept watching, but it's hard to feel motivated to.

tl;dr version is that it didn't do much for me, but I also never saw the whole thing.

 

[number6]

I enjoyed it and was sad to see it cancelled.

 

[indolover]

I love it. It's my second favorite series, after DS9.

It had some good stories now and then, but I can't think of any episodes that warrant "best ever" status. No The Inner Lights/Darmoks/The Drumheads/In the Pale Moonlights/Duets/Year of Hells.

I'd say that Azati Prime, Damage, The Forgotten, The Forge, Awakening, Kir'Shara, Babel One, United, and In a Mirror, Darkly I & II all warrant a "best ever" label.

It was much more of a prequel to TNG than it ever was to TOS.

That doesn't bother me at all, seeing as how TOS is my least favorite of the series.

Those are good episodes, but IMO not best ever ranking.

I would say though that season 4 of the show could rival the best seasons of TNG (IMO 3, and in DS9 IMO 4). It was consistently high quality.

 

[Warped9]

What is my honest opinion of ENT?

....I don't think I could be that honest without being inflammatory.

 

[Gary7]

I found it very disappointing.

I've seen every other Trek series. I even stuck with VOY to the bitter end. But I stopped watching ENT in the middle of Season 2. I just didn't like it.

^ You really ought to give it a second chance. Seasons 3 and 4 are markedly better.

It had its' moments, but was a massive missed opportunity.

I enjoyed it and was sad to see it cancelled.

Pretty much sums it up for me. The show was starting to it its stride in Season 3, but by then it was too late. About being a prequel to TNG, it had to be TOS because of the technological level and ship scale.

 

[YARN]

The show was confused. It didn't know what it wanted to be.
It flopped around a bit like a fish out of water as it attempted to find its identity. Unfortunately for fish, you can't spend that much time out of water before you die.