Rank the seasons!
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4. This one had the most promise, I found and mostly delivered on it. Only one episode failed for me. A change in head writer, felt like a breath of fresh air. It also revitalised the show and to liken storytellers to working at the coalface, they had struck upon an unexploited seam of creativity which worked in Enterprise's favour. Genuine family moments among the crew seem to work everytime. T'Pol receiving her promotion and a thoughtful gift from Archer, in "Borderland". The "Here we are again" scene from the same episode, "Wouldn't have it any other way" speak volumes. Sure, some of the previous years sound and fury is absent, but what it was replaced by was much more fun.
3. An improvement, thanks to a year long arc to give the crew a sense of purpose. Wanders off from the tour several times, straying into areas with a very tenuous connection to saving Earth but it quickly gained momentum. Undoubtedly the darkest, emotionally draining and most lacking in humour season of Star Trek ever made, which wowed and shunned fans in equal measure.
2 & 1. Equal footing for me. Some classics, some good and some bad (the first time around). Even those do gain a point or two when seen again... purely because the characters rise above an often well-worn plot.
Season Two comes in for plenty of criticism, when there are just as many later Season One shows that fall flat too. Case in point, "Singularity" which is great but is all but forgotten about. Several decent episodes around this time get tarred with the same brush, if they've even been seen at all. 2003 brought Star Trek to an all time low, thanks to a psychological disorder affecting fans around this time... Nemecystitis. Having already decided the last TNG film would kill the franchise forever, they gave up on looking for positives in Enterprise altogether. Other symptoms included turning on other fans, eating their young and an irrational hatred of Berman & Braga. Even those in an early undiagnosed stage had the misfortunate to be exposed to a succession of uninspired episodes which began with "A Night in Sickbay" and that only made the outbreak more widespread.
3. An improvement, thanks to a year long arc to give the crew a sense of purpose. Wanders off from the tour several times, straying into areas with a very tenuous connection to saving Earth but it quickly gained momentum. Undoubtedly the darkest, emotionally draining and most lacking in humour season of Star Trek ever made, which wowed and shunned fans in equal measure.
2 & 1. Equal footing for me. Some classics, some good and some bad (the first time around). Even those do gain a point or two when seen again... purely because the characters rise above an often well-worn plot.
Season Two comes in for plenty of criticism, when there are just as many later Season One shows that fall flat too. Case in point, "Singularity" which is great but is all but forgotten about. Several decent episodes around this time get tarred with the same brush, if they've even been seen at all. 2003 brought Star Trek to an all time low, thanks to a psychological disorder affecting fans around this time... Nemecystitis. Having already decided the last TNG film would kill the franchise forever, they gave up on looking for positives in Enterprise altogether. Other symptoms included turning on other fans, eating their young and an irrational hatred of Berman & Braga. Even those in an early undiagnosed stage had the misfortunate to be exposed to a succession of uninspired episodes which began with "A Night in Sickbay" and that only made the outbreak more widespread.
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I don't know if I would classify Season 1 and Season 2 together. The interesting (possibly disappointing) characteristic of Enterprise is that each season is very distinct.
Season 1 benefits from some overall direction. It seems like the writers were trying to explain how Starfleet developed and what it was like before all the rules that we see in later Trek. This was a great idea, although they strayed from this point from time to time. Even the Temporal Cold War idea played into this as Archer gets a hint of what Starfleet will become in the future. I wish that they would have continued to develop this theme rather than throwing it out for two seasons.
Season 2 seems to abandon the nascent Starfleet theme for the sake of making ENT action-packed. There seems to be an even greater emphasis on Starfleet vs. Vulcan High Command, even though the tension between T'Pol and the crew is gone. The Klingons pop up as plot devices almost like the Borg would just pop up on VOY.There are several flashback-laden stories that seem to say that what the crew is doing in the present isn't all that interesting. I feel that they didn't think that Season 1 was successful, so they went back to the drawing board and ended up with a hodgepodge.
Season 3 brings in the Xindi and, quite correctly identified, the darkest season of Trek ever. You would almost think that they had tried to copy the BSG-style had the ENT arc not started months before the original BSG miniseries aired. I'm glad that I wasn't living in the US at this time, because it seems that everyone was depressed or something.
Season 4 seems to return to the ideas of Season 1, adding in the story of how the Federation developed as well.
I wonder if ENT would have been even better if they had never taken the Season 2 and Season 3 detours.
Another vote for 3 4 1 2, although 3 and 4 were very good for different reasons.
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Season four is a lot more like what I wanted the show to be from the start - exploration of the Trek universe itself and the reason why it is like it is later. Ideally, I'd have preferred a hybrid season one/season four - good ole fashioned exploration with political and "universe building" bits thrown in. Four got a little fanwanky for a while there, but in small doses, this isn't a bad thing.
I would cite season three as being very well done if I were to ignore the fact that the show is a prequel, but the fact that the cause of the Xindi Arc in 3 involves time travel makes me put 4 first.
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Season four is a lot more like what I wanted the show to be from the start - exploration of the Trek universe itself and the reason why it is like it is later. Ideally, I'd have preferred a hybrid season one/season four - good ole fashioned exploration with political and "universe building" bits thrown in. Four got a little fanwanky for a while there, but in small doses, this isn't a bad thing.
I would cite season three as being very well done if I were to ignore the fact that the show is a prequel, but the fact that the cause of the Xindi Arc in 3 involves time travel makes me put 4 first.
Pretty much a case of "pot calling the kettle black". I don't hear the latest magnum opus called fanwank, despite
the fact it brazenly steals plot elements from numerous Trek sources and uses them to identical effect...
Spock quoting Sherlock Holmes to back up a theory, and Delta Vega replacing Rura Penthe for epic icy panning shots - The Undiscovered Country.
Controlling Pike with eels, in a complete retread of The Wrath of Khan.
Romulan henchmen standing in for Reman ones, and a gigantic CG superweapon from Nemesis.
Reads like the same way a Rock supergroup would recycle their history into Greatest Hits album, the deeper you analyse it. The writers didn't even try to dress it up differently... except for throwing in a stray curveball with destruction of an iconic Star Trek world.
Spock quoting Sherlock Holmes to back up a theory, and Delta Vega replacing Rura Penthe for epic icy panning shots - The Undiscovered Country.
Controlling Pike with eels, in a complete retread of The Wrath of Khan.
Romulan henchmen standing in for Reman ones, and a gigantic CG superweapon from Nemesis.
Reads like the same way a Rock supergroup would recycle their history into Greatest Hits album, the deeper you analyse it. The writers didn't even try to dress it up differently... except for throwing in a stray curveball with destruction of an iconic Star Trek world.
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I quite agree, actually. I imagine the measure is therefore in the personal enjoyment of the product. It therefore just seems like "fanwank" is a term thrown out blindly for provocation when one doesn't like something.
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1: best season 1 in all Trek (except TOS)
4: I liked the nods to TOS and the shorter arcs. I think if they had tied it just a bit more to season 3, it might have been my favorite
3: I liked the Xindi storyline but I didn't care for the extended arc
2: Some enjoyable episodes interspersed with a few too many bland ones
4: I liked the nods to TOS and the shorter arcs. I think if they had tied it just a bit more to season 3, it might have been my favorite
3: I liked the Xindi storyline but I didn't care for the extended arc
2: Some enjoyable episodes interspersed with a few too many bland ones
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season 4 is how I thought the show would be when it started with broken bow- i ithought the next episodes would be the same as season 4- more federation stuff- focus on things like Vulcan etc instead of that we get TOS/TNG type self contained aimlessly wandering into places and leaving again. although I can't argue with season 3's full season story arc and season 2 is the only season of Star Trek that I have no desire to purchase on DVD
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season 4 is how I thought the show would be when it started with broken bow- i ithought the next episodes would be the same as season 4- more federation stuff- focus on things like Vulcan etc instead of that we get TOS/TNG type self contained aimlessly wandering into places and leaving again. although I can't argue with season 3's full season story arc and season 2 is the only season of Star Trek that I have no desire to purchase on DVD
No shock here.
Season 2 is getting the least amount of love...and deservedly so for the greater part.
Season 2 is getting the least amount of love...and deservedly so for the greater part.
Season 2 is what killed the show (IMO), so these results are no surprise.
Season Four
(I enjoyed most of the episodes)
Season One
Season Two
(One and two about on even ground)
Season Three
(I could only tolerate about three of the episodes. Not a fan of the Xindi arc.)
(I enjoyed most of the episodes)
Season One
Season Two
(One and two about on even ground)
Season Three
(I could only tolerate about three of the episodes. Not a fan of the Xindi arc.)
I thought I was the only one who rated S3 last, but no.
4: It has IAMD
1: Some good, entertaining epsiodes
2: Some good stuff, but I prefered the first season
3: Some good episodes (including Similitude, one of ENT's best) but the Xindi arc didn't grab me much
4: It has IAMD
1: Some good, entertaining epsiodes
2: Some good stuff, but I prefered the first season
3: Some good episodes (including Similitude, one of ENT's best) but the Xindi arc didn't grab me much
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