Been way to soft on Enterprise, didn't really want to piss it's fans off......but I'm in a bad mood and need to rant at something!!
Enterprise killed the ST revival. So many bad decisions in it's creation - first and foremost making Braga the Showrunner, a hack who'd used up his few good idea's years ago and was now riffing of the same boring storylines over and over.
Let's list other mistakes.
- That theme song. Probably the one thing people remember about the show - it's terrible.
- T'Pol. Hey guys - remember when Voyager was on the verge of the axe then we added a sexy woman and the show survived? Let's start with a sexy woman this time...............Ok but you struck lucky with Jeri Ryan, yes she loooked great - but she could act, infact she was bloody great as 7, elevating the material. So Enterprise gives us T'Pol and promises us the sexiest Star Trek ever (Way to misjudge your fans...) Jolene Blalock is wooden, actually somehow (given the shite scripts) manages to make everything worse. But Sideboobs and sexy massages.....go fuck yourself Braga.
- The show trying to be a little more like original Star Trek with three main characters and a bunch of lesser ones (and ohboy were they lesser). But original Trek had Kirk, Spock and Bones....Enterprise had Archer, Tucker and T'Pol - need I say anymore.......and once those 3 failed to carry the show they tried turn it into a more ensemble cast, but no one cared about the other characters by then.
- Archer - "oh boy." Scott is a decent actor in the right role. A hangdog everyman - but as a Starship captain. No. Stick him in engine room as a put upon chief engineering and that'd be fine.
- When it was on the verge of axing at the end of season 2 because it was shite and most of the fans hated it. Panic! Fans love DS9 - let's rip them off and do an all out war series. So we get Xindi war - which isn't ever close to being as good as the Dominion war and has a crap ending, because Enterprise writers aren't as good. But at least it's watchable.
- Season 4 got a new showrunner in Manny Coto. After Enterprise he joined Dexter in 2010 (From Season 5 onwards, when it went downhill).....So this dude has been involved in two of the worst last episodes ever written in Enterprise and Dexter. He co-wrote the final episode of Dexter, let that sink in.
- But of course the final episode of Enterprise was of course written by Braga and Berman. Completely tone deaf to what the fans wanted, it seems approriate these hacks put the final nail in the ST coffin for years. Braga would go in the do Threshold, Tera Nova & Flashforward - all axed after one season. Yet the guy still gets work.