I love Enterprise.

[Gingerbread Demon]

There I said it.

I am one of the very few that love Enterprise. I saw it on TV all those years ago but didn't follow it much, but I did like what I saw and ended up buying every season on DVD.

Love watching it, and have favourite episodes and I wish they had continued it, but that last episode WAS a total stinker.

 

[eyeresist]

+1

You are not alone in liking ENT. We have a forum and everything!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

It's nicely decorated here too. Rivets and everything!

 

[eyeresist]

Plus we have grappling hooks, which is win.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I like the grappler..

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

POLARIZE THE HULL PLATING!!

phew.. I bet the were sooooo happy when they could just yell "SHIELDS!"

 

[SPCTRE]

I am one of the very few that love Enterprise.

Meh.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I liked the second half of Enterprise.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I am one of the very few who love Enterprise as well, however I have broken the rules and designate myself as "roughly seven million people" whenever I am represented in any discussion anywhere, so there are at least seven million people who also love Enterprise, so rejoice.

 

[Willow]

I'm a banner-waving Enterprise lover too! I'm sad that i didn't get to watch it on the original run...I just found it last summer. And it became my Favorite of the entire series! Stinker episodes and all! (And I was a banner waving TNG lover back in college.)

 

[eyeresist]

There is a lot to love....

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Enterprise made space feel dangerous, something Star Trek hasn't really done. In Damage we see the ship shot up to hell and you see bodies flying out of holes in the hull. That's terror.. It's also what I think likely to happen if we do meet aliens and misunderstandings ensue..

 

[eyeresist]

^ I agree. It's certainly the most successful series in that respect.

 

[Disco]

It's gets a worse rap than it deserves.

 

[bbailey861]

It certainly got better every year it was on. Would have loved another three seasons.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I LOVE EN'TER PRISE
PUT ANOTHER GAZELLE IN THE SPEECH PLZ BABY!

 

[Long Syntax]

My favorite of the ST series as well, even if we're in the minority. Echoing a previous post in this thread, it was a Star Trek that actually tried to show some of the dangers that would be experienced out there - with the Enterprise fairly heavily damaged, and not just in conjunction with a time travel episode.

 

[Willow]

My favorite of the ST series as well, even if we're in the minority. Echoing a previous post in this thread, it was a Star Trek that actually tried to show some of the dangers that would be experienced out there - with the Enterprise fairly heavily damaged, and not just in conjunction with a time travel episode.

I agree! Precisely why Azati Prime/Damage were two of my favorites. I'd never seen Enterprise so totally beat up and battered before. And they lost a LOT of crew members. The whole tone of the show during that time was dark, and somber. It felt real to me.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Yeah, people often talk about what they'd love to have seen in further seasons of the show had it continued, and Azati Prime/Damage always factors into the brief musings I allow myself on the subject. It's often discussed in terms of what three more seasons could have accomplished, since TNG/DS9/VOY all pulled off seven, but realistically I think one more season would have been the unlikely final achievement for a show so low-rated as ENT.

That said, I allow myself to think of a full seven seasons on occasion, and it's broad strokes the whole way through, but broad strokes that are accentuated by Azati Prime/Damage.

What I think I would have done had I inexplicably been in charge of the show's direction is that I would have made Season 5 a sort of Season 4, Part II, since that approach was so well-received, and then I would have ended it with a big shocker: a time-skip several years into the future. I would have brought the lore forward into the opening volleys of the Romulan War, and I would have made Season 6 into a kind of Season 3, Part II with a similarly bleak direction. And I would have made sure there was another "Damage" in the running, because there'd need to be one, and because I effing love what I remember of that episode.

Season 7, for the record, would be a sort of "rising from the ashes" kind of year, in which plenty of screentime is dedicated to political establishment of the Federation. I suppose the show would have ended with that last shot from TATV, haha.

Edit: Wait, the last shot is the three ships. Before that. Wait, no. Before that is Riker's "computer, end program." Not that either.

Dammit, you know what I mean.

 

[eyeresist]

I think I'd rather get straight into the Romulan war in season 5 (by rights, the finale of season 4 should have been a shock Romulan attack that unites the other species). That gives two seasons for the war and one for the "from the ashes" season.

I think further damage to the Enterprise would have to try to avoid closely replicating Azati Prime/Damage.
One thing I have in mind is that, with war upon them, Earth first requests and then demands access to Vulcan shield technology. If they still refuse for whatever reason, that would be a great opportunity for the Andorians to score points by donating their own tech, and this would be a good reason for Shran to join the crew and work with Reed as weapons and shield specialists.

"From the ashes" would of course see the beginning of the Federation proper, and also see the establishment of the Neutral Zone. I think there should also be hints that the Klingons will be making trouble on the future, as they would regard the newly united Federation as a security threat.