The intro song lol
The intro song takes time but if you listen to it fully and don’t just skip it you’ll find that it grows in you. Trust me it isn’t easy, but if you keep at it you’ll enjoy it. I used to be where you were, firmly in the stance that it wasn’t good, but now I’m of a different opinion.
You could say that it’s been a long road…
That thing everyone hates isn’t really horrible, at least not if you brainwash yourself into liking it. You’ve just gotta give your brain Stockholm syndrome and suddenly it’ll actually be good.
It’s not brainwashing, it’s faith (of the heart)
I skipped that song as quickly as possible every time, but I absolutely hate that I can still hear it in my head clear as day just from your references.
And no one’s gonna bend or break me!!!
Right? It’s squarely in both columns for me.
I can’t explain it. It’s the magic of Star Trek.
It’s so much better in the season that they ditch the hair metal ballad for the acoustic version.
Definitely the worst intro song of any TV show at that.
The decontamination gel was so cringe
I hated the decon gel. It was only there for eye candy, and really reduced how good any episode was if it was there.
Obviously, for me. I make no claim to how anyone else felt.
The decon room just reeks of Rick Berman
disliked: Worst last episode of any Star Trek series. Voyager was bad enough, but Enterprise …
liked: Jeffrey Combs’ Andorian.
Jeffery Combs enhances everything he’s added to.
I bet he’d be good on pizza.
I like that we got four seasons of it.
I dislike that we were robbed of a fifth, sixth, and seventh season.
The last two seasons were really promising!
Like: the theme song
Dislike: the theme song
I liked seeing Captain Archer learn the lessons that would lead to the Prime Directive. Trip was a fun character, and I liked his romance with T’Pol. There were lots of good individual episodes, like the one about T’Pol having Vulcan AIDS, and Shuttlepod One. Any episode Commander Shran was in is great, especially the episode that Archer duels him. Jeffery Colms is the best. Brent Spinner was also great in his little arc. And, I legitimately liked the Xindi.
That said, the timing of the Xindi arc, in the middle of all the real-world stuff going on, was bad, and it had a bad message. I also did not like all the sexual stuff, especially the episode in season 1 where T’Pol gets forced into Pon Farr by a virus, and tries to have sex with everyone. And then just, like, the whole last half of the last season. Mirror Universe, gross. Trip and T’Pol’s baby dying, sad. Riker’s Holodeck cameo finale, disappointing. Fuck Berman.
The momentum.
We had 90s Trek rolling, TNG, DS9, Voyager, each one moving the world forward. Each show ends with an exciting “What’s next in the Federation”.
Then Enterprise comes along and takes us back in time. It’s an interesting time period to explore, but not what I was looking for.
We don’t move forward again until Picard, and that was solidly whatever and far removed from the 90s Trek momentum.
You magnificently put into words why I always disliked Enterprise. By failing to continue the original continuity, I think it was basically the end of Star Trek for a lot of us.
I actually really enjoyed the show. Theme song was on point. I liked that Archer had a dog. The Temporal Prime Directive shenanigans.
But the thing I hated was taking all the agency from the show by making the final episode a Next Gen episode. :( Even Voyager was treated better at the end.
I deleted the last episode from my digital collection and view it as noncanon.
It was cool because it showed a pre-federation starfleet. Humanity is the underdog scrappy little species trying to get its feet wet in a much larger galactic community. Because starfleet did not have technical parity with other races the stakes felt much higher for each encounter than in TNG or TOS era.
It was lame because it was ENTIRELY too horny. Also the Xindi subplot was painfully obvious as an allusion to the war on terror. It didn’t land for me.
Overall it was a great show though. It explored lots of interesting technical details of the world of Star Trek and attempted to explain their genesis. Reed alert, the prime directive, the paradox of being a diplomatic vessel with MACOs aboard and the jurisdiction of force.
I laughed at the show at its premiere, but by the end I was a die hard fan. They really won me over.
It was lame because it was ENTIRELY too horny. Also the Xindi subplot was painfully obvious as an allusion to the war on terror. It didn’t land for me.
Obligatory Rick Berman is a piece of shit. The War on Terror arc is annoying, but in context I think ENT did a good job with it. For those who weren’t alive or culturally aware at the time of initial airing, basically every piece of media got darker and more fascist-curious in the few years immediately following 9/11. ENT is a great case study in this because the first season had wrapped before 9/11 and the Xindi plot to a very dark turn starting in S2.
Like:
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For whatever reason, this show will absolutely knock me out at night. If I need help sleeping, then on comes Enterprise.
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Jolene Blalock’s jumpsuits. What’s not to like.
Dislike:
- The whole Xindi deal was strange.
The Xindi crap made me abandon this series.
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Loved any episode with Schran (Jeffrey Coombs). His chemistry with Archer was great.
Pink skin
“The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined time travel is impossible.”
Possibly the most annoying repeated line in TV history.
Not enough Dean Stockwell
That last episode Jesus Christ, so bad.
The version in this image: mostly all the time travel shenanigans. That’s mostly what I can recall
