what did you like about enterprise

[pookha]

we have a thread for bashing the show so why not one were we can talk about why some of us liked to watch the show.
i know it wasnt perfect and had some faults but over all yeah i am a fan of the show.
was it the characters, was it some of the plot lines like the xindi arc.

was it some of the aliens??

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I liked how they handled the Andorians, more or less. Between the great new make-up (though I still wish the antennae grew from the parietal area of the skull rather than the frontal--it's hardly a deal-breaker, the fucking things move! How cool is that!) and Jeffrey Combs stellar perfomance as Shran, all I can say is I wish the show did everything else as well. Honestly, I'd have been a fan.

(This doesn't count the violence done to Shran in TATV but then TATV doesn't count, does it?)

 

[JiNX-01]

The characters, especially Trip and that body! (yeah, I know, DUH.)
The NX-01 and shuttlepods!
Porthos! (I love that Archer owned a dog and took it with him! )
The vast majority of the episodes.
That the show had a genuine sense of humor that flowed naturally from the characters (and that the actors made it work without it looking like they were trying to be funny).

(OMG, Star Trek is a category on Jeopardy right now! And one of the contestants is named KIRK! ).

Back on Topic:

The captain's mess scenes. Very nice touch.
That they had a cook on board (and that we never saw him).
Movie night.
Blue Undies!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I liked Phloxx--to me, he was Neelix done right: they toned down the cuteness, toned up the friendly menace. And he was portrayed by a better actor.

I also liked Jolene Blaylock. She was no Leonard Nimoy--I'm not sure she was even a Tim Russ--but she took her role seriously and played it well. She's a Trek fan herself, which puts her ahead of Bermaga in my book.

 

[Pensive]

I loved a lot about ENT - as mentioned above, the Andorians' antennae moved (very cool)! I loved the characters, the storylines, the music .. yes I liked the title song even. Earth had just started to explore deep space, so I enjoyed not having some sweeping symphonic piece. This was before Earth was a big interstellar presence, so the orchestral piece wasn't needed. I liked how FotH made things seem a little closer to now, and not so far off in the future that anything could be made up without explanation.

The low-tech solutions to problems were cute, too. Klingons and Vulcans have tractor beams, and Enterprise has the dinky li'l grappler. Hee.

I also love how Trip/T'Pol's relationship is a smaller-scale version of humanity learning to interact with other aliens in the galaxy.

Even though they were total bastards at first, I liked the Vulcans. I had always wondered how we got to be such good friends with them, and how the groundwork was laid for someone like Spock. Season 4 really did well in that respect (it took a lot for Soval to admit to Forrest that humanity scared the Vulcan people to a degree).

Of course, I didn't have any pre-conceived expectations of what ENT "should" be, since I quit watching Trek after TNG went off the air. I started watching the reruns on SciFi earlier this year and was like, "hey this is kinda cool!"

 

[Captain X]

I liked the submarine-esque feel of the interiors. I liked the drop-ship style launch bay and shuttlepods. I liked the grappler. I liked the updated look of the Andorians and the Tellarites. I liked the actors, especially Jolene Blalock and Connor Trinneer. I also liked the premise of the show, and of showing humanity and Vulcan growing closer together through allegory.

 

[gblews]

I liked the uniforms.

I liked how some crew members were just plain scared to be out there.

I liked how the Vulcans turned out in light of how they started out. I liked that it turned out they were actually frightened of humanity.

I loved the Xindi arc. I loved watching what the crew went through to save humanity.

I loved T'Pol's "journey".

I loved the look of engineering with the warp core lying horizontally. I loved that Phlox used holistic treatment methods.

I loved that ENT, above all else, made Star Trek compelling again, something it hadn't been since DS9 left the air.

 

[ialfan]

Just about everything except it was ended way way too early.

 

[DRADIS]

I liked the look of the show including the ship, set design, costumes, and special effects.

I liked the characters, especially Trip, T'Pol, Malcolm, and Phlox.

I liked that it had classic simple "trek stories".

I liked the story arcs in the show.

 

[JiNX-01]

More stuff:

Trip and Archer's friendship (most drool-worthy manifestation = Desert Crossing).
As mentioned by others, the uniforms (mainly because they have POCKETS!!)
Great guest characters: Shran, Soval, Talas, V'Lar, T'Les, Degra.
Andorian antennae that move!
Hunky Starfleet Cowboys.
Phlox's menagerie.
Cramped living conditions (as noted above, that "submarine" effect).
It's in widescreen!
Did I mention Trip?
Empress Sato. Crazed MU Archer. Feisty, rebellious T'Pol. Commander Charles "T'Pol's Puppet" Tucker. The lusciously evil Malcolm Reed, co-inventor of The Booth. The delightfully sadistic MU Phlox. The "For Once Having Hardly Any Lines Actually Works" Travis Mayweather.
Similitude: ("You're all I think about..." "You were a good father...")
Terra Prime: T'Pol and baby ("Hello, I am your mother..."); Trip and T'Pol with the baby in sickbay; Trip and T'Pol comforting each other at the end and ARCHER'S AWESOME SPEECH!

 

[Kalen Archer]

For me it was the characters. I really warmed to the crew, something that just never happened with Voyager unfortunately. I enjoyed the majority of the episodes too.

I think a great cast was chosen also, and they each brought something to their characters that made me want to tune in each week to see them interact.

 

[commodore64]

I enjoyed the friendship between Archer and T'Pol, and how much it was like the friendship between Kirk and Spock ... but with the edge of sexual tension (as per ANIS). Archer was a great character.

John Billingsley was a standout actor from the show, someone new to me and someone I hope does well.

I wish I could say it was the excellent writing or the character development. I can't.

 

[kalysto]

The excitement of the final few episodes of the Xindi arc. Even though you knew they would win, it was real edge of your seat stuff.

Trip, Phlox, MU Archer and Hoshi (hawwwwt!), Shran, Hayes, Soval...

Another vote for the theme song.

Brent Spiner in the augments trilogy.

The through the roof sparks from Trip and T'Pol in Strange New World.

For once truly 'alien' atmosphere of the vessel and inhabitants in Unexpected.

T'Pols hair and wardrobe past season 2 ! Especially the orange jumpsuit. Yay for snazzy Vulcan dress sense.

 

[JiNX-01]

The opening theme song was OK by me, but what I really love is the closing credits' "Archer's Theme."
I liked T'Pol and Archer "play acting" in Precious Cargo when they were "interrogating" their suspect in the abduction of Trip.
They drank REAL BOOZE on Enterprise!
Archer vs. Shran in United.


Some Hoshi stuff I liked:

-- Archer's gentle encouragement to her in Fight or Flight to talk to the alien captain and she just can't say no to the guy.
-- Hoshi and Malcolm in the mess hall in Silent Enemy. He's barely acknowledging her presence and she just keeps chatting away until it suddenly registers with Reed that she seems to asking for a date, and he literally jumps up and backs away from her... She's so embarrassed, she can't get out of there fast enough.
-- T'Pol's mentoring scenes in Vox Sola and Sleeping Dogs were good stuff. Pity the writers didn't keep it up.
-- Hoshi and Phlox were cute together, especially when she wsa practicing her Denobulan in Dear Doctor and she said Phlox and Cutler made a "cute washboard..." Hee.
-- Hoshi talking to Trip about feeling wierd in Vanishing Point and he tries to assure her that she's OK. (Speaking of VP, I thought that gyro-ride Trip was on when she enters the rec room was really cool, even if Connor didn't care much for it.

)

 

[pookha]

yeah the majority of the cast were some of the best actors trek has had.
the show also had some of the best episodes especially with the end run of the expanse arc.
then there were guest characters like degra and shran.
to take characters and continually add depth to them was real interesting to watch.

i really like what they did with the organians.
we got a feeling for why the organians chose to do their horse and pony show for visiting aliens and very possibly why they switched so fast from non interference to go as far as they did in errand of mercy.

singularity one of the most funny episodes.

i liked the ship.
it being so tiny and buly compared to the bigger and sleeker connies reminds me of the transtion from the wwll enterprise to the one of today.

the utter fear that crew had for a long while of the transporter.

 

[dmleo]

I like the fact that the main characters were not perfect, including T'Pol.

Loved all things Trip - T'Pol - and Trip and T'Pol and was constantly amazed by Connor and Jolene's acting especially in some of my favorite episodes like Similitude and The Forgotten.

Loved T'Pol's colorful catsuits.

Loved the tight blue undies sported by the men.

 

[KayArr]

The ship, the uniforms, the characters, the actors, the crew interactions, the stories, the scripts, the theme song, the incidental music, the humor, the drama, the captain, the engineer, the Vulcans, the Andorians, the bridge, engineering, sickbay, the messhall, the catwalk, movie night, the shuttlepods, and 'ships of all varieties--TnT, Trip/Archer, Tpol/Archer, Trip/Reed, Hoshi/Travis, Hoshi/Phlox, Archer/Phlox, Tpol/Phlox.

There's really only one thing I didn't like--the TCW.

 

[dolim]

i liked the special effects [best so far], the interactions of characters [like on TOS], the temporal cold wars, xindi arc, and the extremely complicated plots [i had to go on the internet & buy the DVD's to figure them out]. i also liked the xindi insectoid and learned how to speak their language, "lkadjfdkfldlkfaofeoinhagbnkhkhruiuiiuwinajnkljklerjaiohtiainakfnoinff"

 

[ChristopherPike]

Almost every episode (certainly a greater hit ratio than any other Trek series). Less technobabble than either TNG or VOY but just enough to be credible. Comtemporary clothes when off duty. Admirals in shirts and ties. A Captain with a chip on his shoulder. A show that kept going straight and steady until the bitter end, flying in the face of opposition both on and offscreen.

 

[KayArr]

ChristopherPike said:
Almost every episode (certainly a greater hit ratio than any other Trek series). Less technobabble than either TNG or VOY but just enough to be credible. Comtemporary clothes when off duty. Admirals in shirts and ties. A Captain with a chip on his shoulder. A show that kept going straight and steady until the bitter end, flying in the face of opposition both on and offscreen.

Could not have said it better myself!