I did two rewatches of Enterprise within about 3 years. My second rewatch confirmed my problems with the first rewatch. They set up the whole Temple Cold War in the first episode and then barely touch on it for two seasons. They make you think they know what they’re writing but then they just let it sit there.
The xindi story arc is decent.
They totally wasted Mayweather.
They had two crew members I had a hard time telling apart other than the accent because there was nothing interesting about either one of them.
And any episode with Jeffrey Combs is a saving grace to the entire series.
I have a theory, one I can’t support with evidence: Voyager was scheduled to conclude after its seventh season and it was the only Trek on the air, so Paramount tasked a writer’s room with inventing a new series.
It’s been awhile since we’ve voyaged with the Starship Enterprise, so let’s do that. Yeah, we’ll even call the show Enterprise. We’re getting a little sick of all the Treknology, how do we stop with all the beaming directly to sick bay and such? I know, a prequel! We’ll set it before TOS even. We’ll have to retcon some stuff but we could do lots of cool stuff with the ship and uniform design. What’s the overall plot going to be about?
And then a silence fell. And then someone, addled from years of writing Voyager, blurted “Temporal…Cold War?” Before thinking those words through. And then nobody came up with a better idea so they sent it.
The implementation of the “temporal cold war” was occasionally having mysterious characters pop in to tell Archer he can’t get involved or else it’ll break the timeline, until they pivoted to Starship Troopers. “I’m from Pensacola, and I say kill 'em all!”
I did two rewatches of Enterprise within about 3 years. My second rewatch confirmed my problems with the first rewatch. They set up the whole Temple Cold War in the first episode and then barely touch on it for two seasons. They make you think they know what they’re writing but then they just let it sit there.
The xindi story arc is decent.
They totally wasted Mayweather.
They had two crew members I had a hard time telling apart other than the accent because there was nothing interesting about either one of them.
And any episode with Jeffrey Combs is a saving grace to the entire series.
But overall Enterprise was pretty bad.
I have a theory, one I can’t support with evidence: Voyager was scheduled to conclude after its seventh season and it was the only Trek on the air, so Paramount tasked a writer’s room with inventing a new series.
It’s been awhile since we’ve voyaged with the Starship Enterprise, so let’s do that. Yeah, we’ll even call the show Enterprise. We’re getting a little sick of all the Treknology, how do we stop with all the beaming directly to sick bay and such? I know, a prequel! We’ll set it before TOS even. We’ll have to retcon some stuff but we could do lots of cool stuff with the ship and uniform design. What’s the overall plot going to be about?
And then a silence fell. And then someone, addled from years of writing Voyager, blurted “Temporal…Cold War?” Before thinking those words through. And then nobody came up with a better idea so they sent it.
The implementation of the “temporal cold war” was occasionally having mysterious characters pop in to tell Archer he can’t get involved or else it’ll break the timeline, until they pivoted to Starship Troopers. “I’m from Pensacola, and I say kill 'em all!”