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Enterprise WAS a Prequel!!!

VulcanMindBlown

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Despite your beliefs about canon or how entertaining the show Star Trek: Enterprise was, it was a prequel:

*It showed the beginning of Starfleet, and how the Vulcans and other later allies, but l held them back (but even further on united with them to make the United Federation of Planets.)
*Space pioneering was scary just like any other time in history when you discover a new land.
*The Transporter was controversial and scary, because it was new and unrefined.
*Enterprise showed beginnings of the Earth Cargo Service (which was pretty much all that they did before the Warp Five project.
*It showed the disastrous first contact with the Klingons, the Andorians, the Tellarites, the Tholians, the Romulans (though controversially showing the use of a cloak) [sort of the Borg and Ferengi, but they didn't actually identify them yet.]
*The warp flight programs NX-Alpha and NX-Beta were shown to later become the NX program.
*It showed the beginnings of the Prime Directive (which unfortunately it didn't finish. :( )
*The episode picks up after Star Trek: First Contact and ties in how the Borg found Earth in "The Best of Both Worlds."
*Food replicators got started by the protein resequencers.
*Lost colonies like Terra Nova
*The Xenophobia of the Humans that led to the tolerance and diversity promotion of the Federation.

Yes, it was made in 2001-2005, but that doesn't mean that it was ANYWHERE near the technology of the Next Generation or Original Series.


Notable episodes:
Broken Bow
Fight or Flight
The Andorran Incident
Fortunate Son
Shadows of P'Jem
Minefield
The Communicator
Vanishing Point
Cease Fire
Horizon
The Cogenitor
Regeneration

I am more talking about Seasons 1-2.
 
It was a "prequel" to the Abrams movies.

Seriously, in the previous four series occasional details were given about the Trek past, ENT doesn't agree with with many of the them. Particularly ENT's basic idea that Eath didn't really start getting out into the galaxy until a mere century before the time of TOS.
 
Despite your beliefs about canon or how entertaining the show Star Trek: Enterprise was, it was a prequel:

Er, yes, we all know this already. It was promoted as a prequel and CBS considers the show canon. So I'm not sure what point you're trying to make other than showing you have an ability to state the obvious.
 
Everybody sing along:

ENTERPRISE was a prequel!
It was a great show, all right!
I didn't understand a word that T'Pol said
But Phlox helped her drink the wine
He always had some mighty fine wine...

Joy to the world
Starfleet boys and girls
Joy to the MACOS and the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me!
 
Sorry, I didn't mean to state the obvious, but to say that it didn't show the beginnings of things and was just 24th Century Trek dumbed down wasn't true.

[Edit: Some people in a different forum many years ago said that Enterprise was not really a prequel and too much like TNG, DS9, or VOY, but they just look at it through the wrong lenses, which is what I am saying.]

I do believe that Enterprise could have benefited from waiting several or many years before making them. It did get stale in some episodes, but to say that it was too much like TNG, like some people are saying is wrong. It's just that we were used to it in the 24th Century and going onward.
 
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They started out as you say. I didn't care for the pilot, but it wasn't because it didn't place itself in the timeframe it was supposed to be in. The problem was that their process for episode scripting was pretty much exactly the same as Voyager, and they inherited the same apparent lack of care that that show had, too - which now extended to whether or not things made sense in canon in the time period they were supposed to be in. Phase pistols became phasers, holodecks showed up, and suddenly the Romulans were themselves more or less exactly as they were from the 24th century instead of the cool mysterious foe for the later seasons that they should have been. And they could have excused a lot of it by making a lot more of the Temporal Cold War that they established was going on - but they really just didn't, preferring an episode style with what still amounted to a reset switch at the end of each one. Which worked fine for TNG, but TV had moved on, and DS9 had already had more and better story arcs than Enterprise, so they should have known better.
 
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