Enterprise is Trek as it should be!

[PsychoPere]

When ENT was in first-run, I stopped watching after season two. Those first two seasons were just far too lackluster for me to try dealing with anymore of it. However, I'm glad that I recently went back and watched seasons three and four. Season three was mostly strong, and season four was almost entirely great. I am disappointed, though, that it took so long for the show to find its footing. If it had been able to impress & retain audiences much earlier, perhaps it would've survived another couple seasons.

 

[number6]

I like how each season offered something different, and while they had a few stumbles, the chemistry of the characters was very strong, much like TOS and even DS9.
I liked them because they were somehow "closer" to us. That ship could have been built today if we had a few more tech advances. There are definitely issues with some of the lackluster episodes, but all the series had them.

I think the fanbase took the show a little too seriously, missing the fun of the show's lighter moments.

 

[miriel68]

I like other ST series, but they have always felt like kind of fantasy tale to me, while Enterprise seemed more like a real science-fiction. Since I do prefer science-fiction to fantasy, Enterprise is without question my favourite Star Trek.

 

[AMQ]

I like other ST series, but they have always felt like kind of fantasy tale to me, while Enterprise seemed more like a real science-fiction. Since I do prefer science-fiction to fantasy, Enterprise is without question my favourite Star Trek.

Agreed completely

 

[Urge]

They have some very strong caracters in this series. I like Dr Phlox and T`pol. Captain Archer is a bit boring though. Trip is the most uninteresting, while the british dude and Hoshi are acceptable.

The episode "singularity" was probably the best I have seen so far.

I also like their uniforms, and the style of their display. Other series (except the Kirk-era) have to much buttons and to few displays. They get into these button-frenzies where they push a lot of buttons and do stuff at their consoles, but it often seems to happen blindely - or through some sort of telepatic connection with the software - without screens, only lights built into the buttons them selves that tells them whats going on. "Now I am doing this and "This and that is happening" but there are no monitors they read the info out of. In Enterprise there has been no "button-frenzies" so far.

 

[Urge]

Three other very strong ones in a row:

Cognitor (To bad we never got a full explanation of how sexual intercourse with three different sexes worked, Phlox wanted to show pictures, LOL:-)

Regeneration (The Borg rocks!:-)

First Flight (Cool to see Archer and Trip work together down in San Fransisco before Enterprise was launched)

 

[I am Surak]

I like other ST series, but they have always felt like kind of fantasy tale to me, while Enterprise seemed more like a real science-fiction. Since I do prefer science-fiction to fantasy, Enterprise is without question my favourite Star Trek.

I - Surak -find this observation most agreeable.

 

[jgalley]

Sadly I missed it when it was still running on tv. I then skipped re-runs as I didn't want to watch it out of order. Finally got around to checking it out on Hulu..and the first episode bored me..so I never followed up. That was a year or two ago..I forget.

Anyway then recently I fired it up on Windows Media Center and actually did relatively enjoy the first episode...and kept watching because I wanted to give it a chance. It finally grew on me and has ended up being one of my favorite series. I'm still not that big a fan of Archer but he's no-where near as bad as others claim (imo of course.)

So now I'm kinda sad that it got canceled. I still haven't finished season 4...but I'm really enjoying it. (I'm also the type that has to be in the right mood to sit and watch any tv show..so there are sometimes several days/week(s) before I watch more..but when I do it's usually 3-4 episodes at once.)

It was a good series...Sadly it turned too many uptight trek fans away and never recovered.

 

[Gary7]

When ENT was in first-run, I stopped watching after season two. Those first two seasons were just far too lackluster for me to try dealing with anymore of it. However, I'm glad that I recently went back and watched seasons three and four. Season three was mostly strong, and season four was almost entirely great. I am disappointed, though, that it took so long for the show to find its footing. If it had been able to impress & retain audiences much earlier, perhaps it would've survived another couple seasons.

I share the same sentiment. I watched every episode of season 1 as it aired... and it just wasn't grabbing me. Bakula's representation of Archer felt unrealistic. The writing was weak. Early on during season 2, I stopped watching. Then I came back by season 4 after hearing some renewed positive chatter about it. But by then it was too late. Really sad. They had some great episodes, like "In a Mirror, Darkly". I also found their integration of established lore from TOS to be very good with minimal compromise. The only major thing that was weak was this whole "temporal cold war" thing looming along throughout. And some of the actors were still a bit stiff, wooden. Bakula was finally coming into his own, albeit a little inconsistent. Enough material was being conjured up for a good number of seasons to follow. Cut down before its prime.

 

[scottydog]

For years I avoided ever watching Enterprise because all I heard in other forums was how bad the series was. Well, I got all 4 seasons on DVD for my birthday, and I've started watching.

I'm half-way through season 2, and I'm really enjoying the series. Enterprise is a good series! Is it perfect? Not at all. It tends to play things safe and sometimes I feel like it's pitched to a juvenile audience. But I'm really enjoying it and I wish I had watched the series sooner.

 

[Starbreaker]

It's a mostly enjoyable show. The third season is probably my favorite Trek series ever. It took a huge risk after a bunch of standalone episodes that really paid off.

 

[star]

I'm just starting to watch Ds9 and one of the things that I realize is that I really prefer Enterprise's more "frontier" trekness. No tractor beams. No real shields and a whole lot of "How the heck do we handle this??"... very cool. And 3rd season is fantastic. I think it gave an incredible depth to the series. The 4th was cool in its own way. I would have loved to have seen where the writers would have taken the show had they gotten a few more seasons.

 

[AMQ]

^^ To me end of season 4 really felt like the end before The end.
It just seemed like many things that could've been said weren't and I think that Enterprise had a great potential to give more.

 

[Urge]

The Xindi episodes mid-way out in season 3 are awesome!

I wonder: Does the Xindi appear in the Kirkiverse as well?