Discovery, which I haven't seen, is now available on CBS. I am on season 3 of Enterprise. Please, no spoilers from enterprise season 4 or Discovery, but should I finish watching Enterprise before Discovery? Will one of them ruin important plot elements from the other show?
Should I watch Enterprise before Discovery?
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You can watch Discovery without Enterprise. Aside from a couple of extreme minor references, ENT doesn’t seem to matter to DSC.
But I would encourage that you finish watching ENT. S4 is considered among the best of Trek.
But I would encourage that you finish watching ENT. S4 is considered among the best of Trek.
Yeah. Like others have said, you don't need to watch ENT to watch DSC.
BUT
That having been said, if you're already in the third season of ENT, you might as well just go onto the fourth. I did a re-watch of ENT earlier this year. I thought the fourth season was the best.
BUT
That having been said, if you're already in the third season of ENT, you might as well just go onto the fourth. I did a re-watch of ENT earlier this year. I thought the fourth season was the best.
The only reason to watch Ent is if you love Star Trek so much you absolutely must see all of it.
But I will say, I watched the first 2 seasons new, hated them and gave up. Later I gave it another chance and found the second half of S3 and S4 quite good. You have suffered through the bad parts, might as well watch the good parts.
But I will say, I watched the first 2 seasons new, hated them and gave up. Later I gave it another chance and found the second half of S3 and S4 quite good. You have suffered through the bad parts, might as well watch the good parts.
The most direct references Disco makes to Enterprise are:
-The events of Broken Bow.
-A certain episode in the fourth season, though that in fact has origins from TOS.
So, no, watching Disco won't spoil anything from Enterprise.
-The events of Broken Bow.
-A certain episode in the fourth season, though that in fact has origins from TOS.
So, no, watching Disco won't spoil anything from Enterprise.
Since you're already on S3 of ENT, might as well see all of it.
Its not bad at all. I found it better than DS9 (but that's just me).
Overall though, you don't need to see ENT before DISCO.
As others mentioned, there is a background connection in late Season 1 of Disco referencing Enterprise (NX-01) but its a nod to that series at best, and not something of general relevance.
Discovery pursues it's own storylines and ties more into the original show, set about ten years before. The only thing DIS might spoil in regards to Enterprise is a two-parter right before the show ended, dealing with a parallel universe. Other than that, no, DIS will not spoil ENT. Beware, ENT had a strong final season and a lame finale. lol
I would personally recommend watching Enterprise INSTEAD of Discovery, but those are just my personal tastes. If you are going to watch DSC, I would say it's best to watch the rest of Enterprise first. It isn't necessary, but I think it views best that way.
-- Tom
-- Tom
Why? Waiting for DIS Season 3, I started watching ENT from the beginning. Nothing in DIS requires a viewer to finish ENT first.
Definitely finish watching ENT. You've come this far; see it through. It's not necessary in order to begin your DIS adventure but it's necessary in order to conclude your ENT adventure. Apart from anything, ENT season 4 is excellent for the most part. 
Enterprise has no importance in any way, shape or form when it comes to Discovery, it literally doesn't matter if you finish it before Discovery or after, watch what you're in the mood for first.
I consider it to be one of the worst because they abandoned the show's premise and it became nothing but pandering to longtime fans.
It's true that it became nothing but pandering to longtime fans. Far, far, far more than certain people accuse DSC and PIC of doing. A link to my calling it out.I consider it to be one of the worst because they abandoned the show's premise and it became nothing but pandering to longtime fans.
That having been said, it didn't abandon the show's original premise. By setting the show in 2151, it was always going to lead up to how the Federation was founded. If anything, I thought the third season was more of an abandonment of the original premise. But at least it gave the NX-01 more battle experience.
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I phrased that wrong, it was still a show about the Enterprise and its crew doing space stuff, so it didn't abandon the premise but it felt like the show stopped being Enterprise and instead almost became an extension of TOS and TNG, there were so many references and tie ins to characters and events from those shows that it didn't feel like Enterprise anymore.
The show’s original premise was “Voyager lite with both insultingly dumb and cliche standalone TNG/Voy rehash stories and bizarre inscrutable time travel arc whose causality doesn’t hold up to mild scrutiny, with a liberal amount of forced fan service”. It needed to be abandoned.
I did the exact same thing. Seems that was a common occurrence with Ent.
It made sense to turn it into a retro-extension of TOS towards the end. I particularly like S4 because it finally made sense of the Vulcans (explaining why they went from being so oddly un-Vulcan to being how we know them from the other shows, while commenting on the Bush administration as well), Storm Front was thrilling (NX-01 fighting Stukas over NYC looked amazing, Vosk had great lines and makeup, the WH in those flags seemed insane back then, the edited news reel was a nice idea), they showed the first steps to peace and trust between the founding members of the Federation and that they united because of the emerging Romulan threat that would lead to the big war not much later, they explained why the Klingons looked like they did in TOS, and gave us a sequel to Tholian Web and prequel to Mirror Mirror some 40 years later!
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