Good on you KayArr.
Based on your comments, it's not hard to see why you like DS9 the least. Personally, I love the examination of contemporary issues, and with the Maquis, it was a novel spin that Trek hadn't done before, having the threat coming from within the Federation. Also, later on, the introduction of Section31, and all of a sudden you had imperfect Federation citizens, and imperfect Federation officers. Then there's the Dominion war, which again, for me, was fairly well reasoned, stemming initially from Dominion fears over Federation expansionism into the GQ.
If the political side doesn't take your fancy, and that's fair enough, you might want to avoid, at least in the short term, episodes that focus predominantly on either the Maquis situation or the Dominion war. Try a few of the outstanding standalones; Duet, The Visitor, Far Beyond the Stars, Children of Time, any one of those, you may find more palatable.
Seeing as you'd said that you were going to watch some DS9, I decided to dig through Enterprise and re-viewed a few episodes. I chose the In a Mirror Darkly two-parter. Impressive. Whilst the story itself is emminently better than most stories from the first couple of seasons, I still had issues with the characters. Tucker doesn't do much for me, nor does Reed, both come across as being incredibly wooden. Mayweather, as per usual (from memory) doesn't exactly have a great deal to do, and Sato spends most of her time in one bed or another. I liked Archer's 'Kirkisms' once he had the TOS uniform in (emphasising inappropriate words when he made speeches, slouched to one side in his chair etc!)
And T'Pol in a TOS uniform is always nice to see......
Based on your comments, it's not hard to see why you like DS9 the least. Personally, I love the examination of contemporary issues, and with the Maquis, it was a novel spin that Trek hadn't done before, having the threat coming from within the Federation. Also, later on, the introduction of Section31, and all of a sudden you had imperfect Federation citizens, and imperfect Federation officers. Then there's the Dominion war, which again, for me, was fairly well reasoned, stemming initially from Dominion fears over Federation expansionism into the GQ.
If the political side doesn't take your fancy, and that's fair enough, you might want to avoid, at least in the short term, episodes that focus predominantly on either the Maquis situation or the Dominion war. Try a few of the outstanding standalones; Duet, The Visitor, Far Beyond the Stars, Children of Time, any one of those, you may find more palatable.
Seeing as you'd said that you were going to watch some DS9, I decided to dig through Enterprise and re-viewed a few episodes. I chose the In a Mirror Darkly two-parter. Impressive. Whilst the story itself is emminently better than most stories from the first couple of seasons, I still had issues with the characters. Tucker doesn't do much for me, nor does Reed, both come across as being incredibly wooden. Mayweather, as per usual (from memory) doesn't exactly have a great deal to do, and Sato spends most of her time in one bed or another. I liked Archer's 'Kirkisms' once he had the TOS uniform in (emphasising inappropriate words when he made speeches, slouched to one side in his chair etc!)
And T'Pol in a TOS uniform is always nice to see......
