I still watch it on DVD. An episode a week if I can find the time. Just today... it was "Minefield" and "Dead Stop" back to back. I love the fact more often than not, there was continuity between the stories. Here the serious damage inflicted on the ship by a Romulan mine, and Reed's injury are still part of the plot next time.
Quite hard to describe why I rate ENT highly. I latched onto it the first time I saw on Sky1 back in 2002 and loved everything about the show. I remember getting satellite TV just to see the new Star Trek earlier than terrestrial channels. There are only a handful of episodes I actively dislike.
A lot would be done different for Star Trek on TV now. Each season would be half as long, allowing pure continuous plot and less episodic filler which resets at the end. Producers would take nothing for granted, have a plan, a story arc and a goal each season. A series finale already half figured out, tallying up all the numerous questions we need answers to, should it get cancelled early... which it probably would be.
So yeah, I'm grateful for four years we got and especially for that last year. I wish they'd hurry up and get it out on Blu ray. Heck, I'd like them to show it where I live in true High Def and at a reasonable hour. That way it would really pick up a few new unsuspecting fans - already watching the preceeding show or tuned in early, waiting for the next one to start. Everything these days is geared to downloading and you have to be a fan of Star Trek to begin with really - to go looking for it. That's a solitary experience too, with no active need to all sit down and watch it together at a set time. Hard to remember that downloading back in 2004/05 was Limewire and completely illegal - but those uncounted numbers and TIVO weren't even measured.
If I were a TV scheduler, it would repeated in a channel line-up closer to prime time. Just before CSI, NCIS or whatever. Maybe try out a completely different theme tune... Maybe a different score... I don't know. Just as an experiment to see how many people would really tune in for Star Trek week after week. How long it would take to fail. I do wonder how much those fan gripes really did affect the show. Not simply nobodys like you and me, but high profile folks who mention it like Simon Pegg - who apparently could never get past the opening titles, before switching off.
"Faith of the Heart" never bothered me that much. I found it very inspiring alongside all those human achievements in exploration. Although I did dislike the way it was tweeked from Season 3 onwards. It somehow became overpowering chipper and grating in a year that was dark, gritty and bleak. Earth has just been destroyed > cut to the song. T'Pol has become a screaming psychotic > cut to the song. Two Reptillians wolf down white mice > cut to the song. I'd have liked Producers to have kept the audience guessing and change the title sequence every year. It seemed to have worked for "In A Mirror, Darkly" and thinking back to the 90's, Babylon 5 didn't have a uniform set of titles. It changed and evolved to meet the tone of the show.
