More rewatchability: Voyager or Enterprise?

[Paul755]

Enterprise on the whole is more rewatchable IMO. The first couple seasons are weak for sure. But it’s lows are not as low as Voyagers. The Xendi arc was done really well even if they fumbled the ending a bit with the final chapter of the Temporal War and leaned a bit too hard into to oversexed/over emotional T’pol.

Season 4 was pretty good until the finale. Some good connections to TOS/TNG, the best Mirror episode since “Mirror, Mirror” and that includes the Mirror arc from Disco. And hell, I even love the Klingon explanation episodes. The Surak arc is pretty great as well.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I would say Voyager's proportion of episodes which are comfortabland or better is 75%, whereas with Enterprise it's more like 40%.

And it helps that with Voyager I like the characters, whereas with Enterprise, the only character I can really say I like is the one who got the worst treatment at the series end.

I like this word comfortabland. It applies to most of Voyager, most of Orville, and anything that is very middling and very good at playing on nostalgia for what came before. Something objectively average but gets a bonus for eliciting happy childhood feelings.

 

[X24actor]

Enterprise! I will never get over how underrated it is. The last two seasons are some of the best seasons in all of Trek. I skip the last episode though. Even the first two seasons had some entertaining classics. I like the episode Canamar a lot. And I like the Vulcan story arc, especially the one with the Andorians on the Vulcan monastery planet.

Voyager on the other hand, has too many cringey moments, but probably has the better episodes when they are good. More sporadic and less consistent than Enterprise. I rewatched Dark Frontier recently, and didn't realize that one was so good. Same for Scorpion. Timeless is another classic. I like Seven of Nine a lot more now than I did initially. The two Doctor episodes that pay tribute to the mirror universe are two of my favorites. Living Witness is great and Author Author is more of a guilty pleasure.

There's a fan theory that the Warship Voyager from Living Witness was actually the Mirror Universe version of Voyager, and I really like that theory.

 

[somebuddyX]

There's a fan theory that the Warship Voyager from Living Witness was actually the Mirror Universe version of Voyager, and I really like that theory.

I haven't heard this theory but I imagine this was Voyager's production crew's way of being able to do a mirror episode without doing one, but also coming up with something much better in my opinion.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Voyager, because standalone episodes have more easy rewatchability than multi-multi-part ones.

 

[somebuddyX]

I think I'd pick Voyager but I like the look, SFX, tone and action of Enterprise more but Voyager's characters and individual stories overall are better in my opinion.
I wonder if I rewatch shows different than most. I never rewatch something in order and just start with my favourite episodes and work on from there. And there's still episodes from all shows that I've never watched.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I liked Ent season 3-4 but haven’t had any urge to rewatch. Even when the writing got good the acting was stiff. The Xindi story worked as a whole but they came off as cliche beasties at some points.

Early Ent had more embarrassing episodes than even Threshold with Dear Doctor and Night In Sickbay. Decon was even more blatant than Seven’s wardrobe, the temporal Cold War made no sense, and their constant push to folksy-ize everything was consistently uncomfortable.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Enterprise by a country mile
As for this perpetuated myth that all of season 1 and 2 was mediocre, that's simply not true.
There are loads of great 43 minutes worth in both of those seasons.
Tell me a Trek incarnation that doesn't have poor quality episodes, ffs Star Trek from 66-69 had at least 15 duffers from 3 seasons.
PS I'd also still watch Voyager, it's just that I can't take to the gallant explorer thing when they should have been trying at all costs to get home, asap.

When Netflix picked up the Trek back catalogue in the UK, I got round to watching Enterprise for the first time since it aired. Every other Trek, I'd already been through several times.

I'm with you on Enterprise series 1 and 2 being underrated. I actually think they represent the best of Enterprise. I always struggle with Enterprise series 3.

I would prefer to watch Voyager series 4-7 more than Enterprise 1, 2 and 4.

I prefer Enterprise 1, 2 and 4 to Voyager 1-3.

I prefer Voyager 1-3 to Enterprise 3.

 

[Stibbons]

I'd probably pick Voyager because it's in the whole Next Gen Era and there's a whole bigger world you can relate it to immediately. With Enterprise there is a bit of a "join the dots" trying to link it to the bigger Trek Universe and I think sometimes I feel they work too hard to do that. Voyager is more relaxing because it slides easily into the groove left by Next Gen and DS9. What I want out of a rewatch is relaxation. Voyager provides that, for me, Enterprise doesn't.

 

[Discofan]

I'd say the third and the fourth seasons of Ent are rewatchable, some of the others I could have done without altogether, at the very least I am not eager to see them again.

On the other hand, most of Voyager (especially the Seven years) are rewatchable.

All in all, there are more Voyager episodes that are rewatchable than there are Ent's.

 

[MacLeod]

Taking each series in it's entirety I would have to say VOY.

 

[PhotoBoy]

Based on which shows I have rewatched in the past, I have to give it to Enterprise. Out of all the shows Voyager is the one I’ve rewatched the least, mainly because it had a fantastic premise and an excellent cast but it just threw all that potential away to be TNG-lite. Too many things like infinite shuttlecraft and holodecks that didn’t steal any replicator power just spoiled the lone ship trapped far from home premise.

 

[Relayer1]

Enterprise seasons one and two were patchy, season three was near unwatchable (I admit it was better quality and less stand alone, but I just didn't like the 'arc').

Season four was great, which in itself puts it way ahead of Voyager...

 

[ALF]

Wish I could weigh in here... having seen every ENT multiple times, I'm still finding VOY episodes recently that I've never seen!
Love rewatching both shows, though.

 

[johnnybear]

VOY because it's set in the TNG era of Trek and because it is like an offshoot of TNG and it doesn't upset the continuity laid down during TOS like ENT!
JB

 

[Discofan]

VOY because it's set in the TNG era of Trek and because it is like an offshoot of TNG and it doesn't upset the continuity laid down during TOS like ENT!
JB

There's also a great deal of variety in Voyager that we don't quite find in ENT. Plus each main Character has had a few episodes devoted to them. For example, Harry has Non-Sequitur, the Disease, Nightingale, and others. Seven had like a dozen of episodes at least, Chak four or five...etc...

While on Ent those episodes are rather rare by comparison.

 

[Ricky]

It's Enterprise for me. Voyager has great episodes but I struggle to name a strong season like I can for TOS, TNG or DS9.

Enterprise has it's Season 3 Xindi arc and it's fantastic. And the 4th season is none too shabby either.

I like them both though.

 

[XCV330]

Ive rewatched Enterprise quite a bit, apart from season 1 and some of season 2. there are vast swaths of Voyager I wont bother with.

 

[Saul]

Enterprise.
But i have a lot of problems with Enterprise, one of them being that it felt like I was watching Voyager again. The same production values, music, direction. T'pol was obviously heavily inspired by Seven of Nine. At times Archer felt like Janeway at her meanest. But Enerprise didn't have Neelix, it didn't have Seven of Nine and the Doctor singing. I remember losing interest in Voyager in the later seasons but also Enterprise didn't really have my attention either. For rewatchability though Enterprise aged very well and fits in with the Star Trek world that builds itself on it. The JJ movies and Discovery have taken quite a bit from it.

Enterprise was the somewhat more realistic show, they had a harder time of it than Voyager did and the stories were interesting as they had an impact on Earth, Starfleet and the Alpha quadrant compared with Voyager which could do anything in the Delta quadrant with no real consequences back home. With that said I preferred the more idealistic 24th Century crew compared to Archer and his brand of culture trumping the sensitivities of others. The "we can do what we want because we are human" crap.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

While I love Voyager, I love Enterprise even more, mostly because of its tough calls and great characters. It's a lot better and interesting than many give it credit for. Be like me, though: a happy camper who finds something enjoyable in every Trek show. :-)