I’ve got faith of the heart!
The first couple of seasons were great, it was interesting to see the allmighty federation as an underdog, and captain Archer as a sly trickster trying to one up a technologically superior opponent.
Then they went with the temporal war shenanigans and I quickly lost interest.
I really liked the idea of ENT. When they changed direction, I really didn’t enjoy it anymore.
I think most people feel the exact opposite about it though.
I’m probably a minority, but I liked it overall. It wasn’t perfect, but none of the other series were either. 🤷♂️
It was nice seeing Starfleet in its early days and how the Vulcans both helped and hindered humanity’s progress after First Contact. The Vulcans, in particular, were interesting because for as logical and enlightened as they claimed to be, they still harbored a lot of bigotry and close-mindedness in their society. Archer calling them out on that was probably one of the highlights of the series. We also got to see Vulcans that fully embraced their emotions as well as some like T’Pol and Ambassador V’Lar who were “emotion-curious”.
I also liked how the tech was closer to what NASA might build in 50 or 60 years and watching tech like the Universal Translator get developed. My only major gripes with ENT were the pandering decontamination scenes and that they started using the transporters more and more as the show went on.
ENT has hands down the best intro song of any series.
Can you even remember the words to any of the other intro songs? I didn’t think so.
Star Trek is like pizza, even when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.
Bakula is singer/dancer/actor on-par with Bill Shatner. He’s performed on Broadway, if anything he helped salvage a little something from the mess that ENT would’ve been without him.
