Me watching the first episode of Enterprise: "Ugh, what a terrible theme song." Me watching the last episode of Enterprise: "... FEIGH UH THE HEEEAAAARRRTTT!"
I love Enterprise and think it would have been amazing if they had been able to spend a season or two on the development of the Federation. Also I wish T'Pol (and Jolene Blalock) had been given fair dues and normal clothes to show how brilliant an actor she is. Love you Jessie, you share such beautiful moments from your personal experience that make us all grow in consciousness and Trekness xx
Star Trek Enterprise is the series that made me understand why I love Star Trek and what makes it unique compared to every other space opera ever made. After a thrilling, rousing, and very clearly post 9-11 allegorical season of espionage and action, an exhausted Jon Archer saying "we're explorers, not soldiers" almost brought a tear to my eye. Enterprise is the most relatable series of the lot; not because it finds Star Trek optimism old fashioned but because it still believed in our capacity to achieve its reality, even if the road to get there is long.
As someone who "recently" got into Star Trek, I must say; the hate around Enterprise seems really out of place. Maybe it was different when it was the only new Star Trek on TV but as someone who could just dip into episodes on Netflix, I have to say that it has a lot of endearing qualities. To be real with you, I found it so endearing that I took a break from watching all of The Next Generation to watch Enterprise start to finish. Enterprise has a great crew and captain and the secondary characters feel fleshed out in a way that makes me understand why they stick around with the core cast. I feel that the show is able to give greater attention to more of its aliens by virtue of Earth not being aware of so many races. While watching the other shows, it always feels to me a bit like you already have to know a lot about the franchise as a whole to "really get it" but because everything is a bit more scaled back in Enterprise I feel like both the characters and I are allowed to discover the lore together. I guess if you are also into the new shows (like i am) you are probably a bit more open to Enterprise (but that is just a theory). If you dont like the show that is fine but i personally think you are missing out
I wrote a full post on it, but the view at the time was that enterprise was a turn around from the things the fan-base wanted to see. Enterprise might be an okay show in retrospect, but it felt at the time to be a mismatch with the spirit of its age- not something fans of tos, tng, ds9, or even voyager, were accustomed to.
@Steve Adams sadly star trek fans from the TNG could not adapt probably and critise the show illogically This star trek Enterprise is way before Kirk era and most of all relevant to pur time if fans think wider and deeper they should appreciate not hate it or despise it even though I am new to star trek I Love Vaughn Armstrong by the way as admiral Forrest and CAPTAiN JOHNATHAN ARCHER and COMMANDER SHRAN AND TELLERITE AMBASSADOR AND SOVAL TO "LEARN WAT THE NATIONS OF EARTH HAVE DONE TO COME TOGETHER FOR A COMMON CAUSE BEST IS BROMANCE BETWEEN ARCHER AND SHRAN
T'Pol is my favorite Star Trek character! Carbon Creek is my favorite Star Trek episode! I've loved Enterprise ever since I bought in in 2006. (couldn't watch it as it aired)
I like Enterprise a lot. I like that they were not all powerful compared to many ships they met and felt very vulnerable. It made space scary like it should be. The politics is more subtle and complex showing the Vulcans as patronizing frenemies who got their relationship with the Andorians completely messed up. I also like that it was one of the first Hi Def shows.
It's one of those series that is deeply flawed but has some amazing gems of episodes and a very cool premise. Plus I loved the third series....however convoluted it was. I have a similar thing with TNG. It's my favourite for nostalgia reasons mostly but I don't think its the best series.
One of the great things about Enterprise is that characters learn from their previous exploits. "The show" also remembers and even in the first two series is less episodic than everything except maybe ds9. The naivety, the outclassed ship, the fact even Archer had a broom closet for quarters and, (God love it) The Grappler: All these things allow Enterprise a special place in my heart.
Confession: Enterprise is tied for my favorite alongside Deep Space Nine. These two Star Trek series had main characters that started out not getting along and bond to be the best of friends by the very end. I wish Enterprise had a full 7 season run and a sequel series. The potential the 22nd century had for stories was endless.
Have you read some of the script ideas for season 5? The Romulan war could have been as significant for ENT's final 3 seasons as the Dominion war was to most of DS9's run.
I'm gonna have to admit that I actually really liked the Trip/T'Pol romance. They showed both sides making mistakes, and that they, once they both started to realize they had something deeper than will-they-won't-they might have a more mature, equal relationship. ...then the final episode happened. I perfectly understand why most of the actors have been acerbic (Blalock was outright vicious, well-deservedly so) about it. And why the novels ignored it as "combo of bad historians and faked records". Heck, even one of the Killer Bees admitted it was a bad episode.
I didn’t really care all that much for Enterprise until my kids picked it up. It’s their favorite of the Star Trek series as well. They’d all sing the theme song together while I held up a lighter. Of course, right when the show was hitting its stride it got canceled. They had finally found the right formula by doing several small story arcs instead of one large one. Something I wish Discovery would start looking into.
What I love and lot of people dislike is that the crew of the NX-01 didn't know what they were doing in the beginning. It was the first earth ship capable of going a super long distance in a reasonable amount of time. None of them knew what to expect or how to react. Eventually they learned. With the other Treks you had seasoned crews with tested captains. Another thing that drew me in was the technology. Star Trek has always had some serious futuristic scifi borderline fantasy stuff going on, which is awesome, but when I watch Enterprise everything feels so familiar and futuristic. The transporter is new and most of the crew is wary of it. They use shuttle pods instead. They don't have tractor beams yet so they have magnets and hooks. They use actual torpedoes. They don't have shields so they have thick hull plating that can be polarized. They push buttons to open the doors. It's just so familiar. The ship itself is just a little less theoretical and more practical to current day. (For scifi anyway) My only issue with the show is that trying to retcon the way klingons looked in ToS was just silly and not needed. Most people understand that a lot of what we know about the star trek universe came after ToS with the movies and TNG.
There's something about ENT that I always found enjoyable that I couldn't find with Voyager or TNG. I like them, and they're good, but I find myself more drawn to Enterprise than the other two. Doesn't beat DS9 or TOS for me, but it's still up there. Edit: Although my favorite thing about the ENT fandom, is that all the gays took one look at Reed and went "ours". Rick Berman die mad about it.
"There's something about ENT that I always found enjoyable that I couldn't find with Voyager or TNG." The 'Merikuh bullshit, maybe? Being clearly conservative? Every thing you can't find in DS9 and Voyager that you can find in Enterprise is a bad thing.
Enterprise was my "coming home from school and seeing reruns on the SciFi Channel" show. Although it certainly has its flaws, the idea of seeing a Star Trek show all about, well, the culmination of that "long road... from there to here" was really inspiring (in a way, this is very much like why I so love First Contact). I only watched DS9 recently, and while I really love it now as well, Enterprise was the one that really introduced me to the ST universe. Right then, back to my rewatch of Enterprise.
First of all, thanks Jessie for being vulnerable and sharing your story with us. You are awesome! And I love your takes on Star Trek. Now on to my opinions. I really like Enterprise. Yes, I wish that the cast was a little more diverse, and I wish we spent a little less time staring at T'pol in her underwear greased down with decon gel. Overall, though, I think it's really great. I ove how rough it is without all of the magic technology of the rest of Star Trek. Everything feels higher stakes because they have less technology to rely on. They aren't on Picard's Enterprise with its nice carpets and replicators and holodecks. Seeing them work with the grappler and their wimpy torpedoes is awesome. I think the Xindi and the Suliban are great and scary antagonists. I also love the dynamics between humans and Vulcans. I think it is realistic, and really interesting, to see the human resentment against Vulcans and to see Archer work past that. The interactions between Starfleet and MACO people is also interesting. The characters are well defined and actually develop as people. One of the nice aspects of there being less characters is that the writers had time to develop strong friendships, like that between T'pol and Archer. (Side note, I like how T'Pol becomes more emotionally vulnerable the more time she spends with humans). Although I prefer more serialized storytelling, ENT does a phenomenal job of linking standalone episodes together. They make lots of little callback references to other episodes in dialogue. And when something happens in a previous episode, it carries through to the next (unlike Voyager where the ship can literally be falling apart at the end of an episode and look like it just came out of space dock the next episode). Like in one episode the ship hits a mine, and in the next episode they have a storyline about fixing the ship. The think I like the best, though, is this: The humans of TNG, DS9, etc, feel very far away from the humans of today. We hear Picard talking about the "evolved" human race, but it's hard to imagine how humanity got there. The crew of Enterprise are more like us. They are impulsive and a little irresponsible. They make mistakes. But everything they see is completely new to them. We get to feel a sense of wonder as we see the wonder they feel when they first meet new species. Even your typical "alien of the day" episode feels fresh and interesting because it is something incredibly new to the crew. We get to see the crew grow up, get better at their jobs, become more mature, work past biases, and go from adolescent explorers to people who are ready to be leaders of an interstellar Federation of Planets. And the theme song is great! Definitely underrated Trek.
Enterprise was also my first Star Trek. I remember being Trek-curious before that, and I think I even gave TOS a shot as a teen. But it just didn't click with me at the time. But then Star Trek Enterprise began airing on tv, and that was amazing. It was unlike anything I had seen at the time in my life. Maybe it was the style that was more familiar and "modern" to my teenage sensibilities, giving me that 'in' with the series. It introduced me to the Star Trek world, and I worked my way backwards after that (Voyager, then DS9, then TNG and finally TOS). So yeah, Enterprise is a good series and deserves some love.
Enterprise is my favorite Trek as well, and I had a similar things with Enterprise. My mom was a huge TNG fan and she had shown me the reruns of TNG on BBC America, but it never truly landed for me. Until I found Enterprise that is. I caught a rerun of Enterprise on the Syfy channel while I was in high school and I was interested in it (I think it was Strange New World from Season 1). It prompted me to find more reruns on Syfy and eventually using Netflix to rent the DVDs for the show. Instead of my mom sharing her Trek with me, I was able to share My Trek, one she had never even heard of, with her (she had originally dismissed DS9 and VOY for not being TNG - she has since gone back post Enterprise and watched both shows, and loved them both). I feel like each Trek series is similar to each of the Doctors from Doctor Who: You never forget your first. While TNG was the first for both of us, Enterprise felt like it *our* first Trek show (not to mention the personal reasons as well), Enterprise will always hold a special spot for me, as it not only got me into Trek as a whole, but it was also my first real "adult" show and showed a path to a better future. Also I'm mad at RUclips for not recommending this channel to me sooner, as I love everything here
Enterprise really grew on me and is now one of my favorites. I am also a bit of a Jeffrey Combs fanboy and Shran is his best Trek character! edit: Wanted to add that its really cool of parents getting people into Trek. My parents tried to prevent me from watching and taping it for the longest time!
I like Enterprise a lot. I liked the "new frontier" aspect and loved most of the characters very much. Archer, I blow hot and cold about. He's a little too shouty and at times Bakula's performance borders on hammy. And poor Meriwether didn't get much to do AT ALL. I didn't like the producers' insistence on making T'Pol into "eye candy" but other than that I feel it rates above Voyager in many ways dramatically, and above TOS consistency-wise. Again, I love the characters. I always do, in Star Trek. It's just, there are soooo many white males on the ship. The producers totally discounted the likelihood that East and South Asia will have the preponderance of the world's population. I really wish they had featured Commander Shran more! Absolutely loved his burgeoning friendship with Archer.
I'm one of those people with anxiety who finds comfort in watching familiar tv. So I watch at least one episode of Trek every night, and although I do skip around series and episodes, I find Enterprise to be the easiest to watch. I like the familiarity of it being so close to our time, I like that the technobabble is almost decipherable and my favorite thing is NO HOLODECK. I agree that its not the best Trek, but the cast are all endearing, the stories are pretty great (if derivative of the earlier series) and its fun to see the origins of some of the canon too.
I think that last season of enterprise is one of the best seasons in all of trek, so many great multipart episodes that are awesome. I only watched the first season when it was airing, i hated that theme song and thought the time war stuff was dumb. Went back and binge watched it when the trek show came to netflix and I fell in love with the show. Probably my second favorite behind ds9, I even sing along to the theme song now.
I am so glad I found your channel. I remember when Enterprise premiered. I liked it, but it felt a little bland. It wasn't until the Xindi storyline began that it really sparked up for me. Enterprise holds a special place in my heart because Archer and his crew were the first. Pioneers. Really no protocols, definitely no Prime Directive, and making mistakes that future Starfleet generations would learn from. Really no reinforcements, no space stations and their only allies were the Vulcans. Those first 83 crew members, and Porthos, were truly brave.
Honestly I like Enterprise a lot, it's rough in parts sure, but there is a whole heck of a lot of good in there. It's actually my wife's favorite! I hope this goes well for you, it's nice hearing you talk about how much this show means to you.
Archers enterprise was the first one i watched from start to end. I was like 10 or so and it was the first star trek i gave a chance bc the other stuff seemed "old" to me. My father was a huge fan but he also loved tennis which i hate. His both and only hobbies(hes on the authism spectrum). And as my sister started playing tennis i was kinda forgotten, he just didnt know what to do with me. And through archer i learned to love janeway, sisko and all the other great stuff. And that made me bond to my father more than anything else could. So yea. In a way, enterprise is my personal favorite star trek even through i dont think its the best show.
Man. I work six days a week in a ‘real job’ and still can’t support great people like you. I’m ready for a Trek economy, already. Also, I too think Enterprise is underrated. Definitely better than Picard or Disco... as far as writing.
I went into Enterprise expecting not to like it. I had been taken in by its reputation as 'the bad one', and didn't expect much. But before I knew it, I was taken along for the journey - and I loved it. For me, Enterprise is a prequel made for the right reasons - to explore something new and answer the question; how did the federation first come together? Suddenly we're in a world where there is no prime directive, the starship is fairly flimsy and outmatched at every turn - and its only the stalwart belief in the mission that keeps it together. Enterprise, like so many star trek series', took a while to get going, but once it did it did some phenomenal stuff - and you have to remember that Enterprise had to deal with a load more interference from Berman - which always makes good Trek harder to make. Still, series three in many ways fulfilled a promise Voyager failed to live up to, and series four added so much to the world of Star Trek, that I'm eternally grateful. I wish to goodness it had been given another three seasons. Also, Soval and Shran are the best.
Jessie, you are such a kind empathetic person, it’s such a pleasure to listen to you and hear your “criticism with love” style that doesn’t turn into “both sides equally bad”. You belong among the best of Breadtube.
I normally don't get involved in fandoms, so when I heard that Enterprise was largely hated after watching it I was kind of surprised? I get that it has it's rough edges but not much more than other Trek series, and it has some genuinely great writing! My guess is most of the people wrote it off before the first intro ended for... *ahem* reasons. It's different than other Trek, but it's literally set before the federation properly exists, of course it's going to be different. In a lot of ways it's about exploring why the federation exists as it does, which is super interesting! I would bet money that if you pitched the over-arching themes and plot to most Trek fans they'd think it sounds like a really good idea.
Further more star trek Enterprise can have a movie to make up the loss of season 5 as well to b more in depth with romulans as unseen and unheard of enemy the way they fought as such
Thanks for your thoughtful takes on Trek, and ST:E in particular. I liked Enterprise for its sense of wonder and adventure. Season 1 showed this often. I also liked that Season 3 was serious and dark. I wish we could have seen more of the consequences that the Xindi War would have had on Archer and the crew. I think that the Xindi, Humanity’s enemy in that story arc, were a Roddenberry ideal: a multi-racial species that (largely) collaborated despite their differences.
Jessie your timing is serendipitous as always. I'm working on finishing Voyager right now and have been thinking about starting Enterprise (only caught a few episodes here and there back when I was a preteen back in the UPN days), and now I'm so excited that I can listen to your podcast along with each episode! Happy to be a Patreon supporter and part of this community you've brought together =)
My grandmother got me into star trek with reruns of the orginal series I stumbled over TNG in 1987 I caught encounter at farpoint when the enterprise was doing a high warp saucer seperation. I was hooked. I had to watch all the orginal series movies i was hooked in that world wanting to serve on the enterprise DS9 i was hooked. This show influenced me so much i joined the real Navy. Then served as a corrections officer for 5 years because worf was one of my favorite characters and i wanted tobe tactical able to defend myself so i worked corrections on deathrow Florida, now I am finishing up my bachelor's degree tobe a manager in healthcare administration.. So trek has inspired me on a personal level in my real life so much so jesse I can definitely relate to this show the last of the old trek with philosophy politics, with humanism sprinkled in the trek show.
I love shran too and thats why Enterprise is so good,, that wierd early relationship with humans and the logic vulcans and the agressive Andorians. btw.it was the intention that Shran would have been a main part of the cast in season 5.
This is so sweet. I’m older than you I guess, but my mum was a PSW and had to go to work Saturday nights, where her client always watched Star Trek, so she would order us pizza and go to work and we would just watch Star Trek TNG because we felt she was watching it at the same time we would, and we just got so into it. Loved your story Jessie!
Got ST: ENT on disc; I always loved it, from the very first episode, because its fresh and tells the story before The Federation, in the very infancy of Starfleet, when there was no prime directive, when transporter beams were met with dread; when Vulcans and Humans were adversarial, which makes the friendship of the Captain and Trip with T'pol all the more compelling. The characters were well written, the plots were good, could have been better, but still enjoyed them. Scott Bakula was a very convincing Captain, that excelled in mentoring, encouraging, inspiring, and a very capable leader, but vulnerable as well.
It‘s so nice to see that in recent years, at last, Enterprise is getting some recognition and love. I absolutely adore that show. I see its flaws, but every episode leaves me with a big smile on my face. I don‘t get that with any of the newer Star Trek, unfortunately. I am looking forward to Star Trek Strange New Worlds, however - Anson Mount as Pike is just phenomenal!
For the longest time, I did not get into Enterprise. Only really got into it recently but only because of Season 3+4. Shame it got cancelled when it finally found it's footing(Took less time then Voyager!). Plus after new trek, I quite appreciated the more 20 episode per season with Season 4 in particular having a great mix of serial and procedural episodes so had the best of both worlds. Just a shame it had a bad ending episode.
Supposedly the final episode was written like the Babylon 5 season four finale, in case it was cancelled they would have a slight bookend to make sure part of the show was cancelled. It could have ended better as the writers linked Elizabeth's fate to the fate of Enterprise, they found out the show was cancelled before finishing Terra Prime so she was killed off. It had a better idea than anything except Voyager, even if the writing didn't become good until the latter half of season two.
My dad grew up with and introduced me to the TOS crew (all I cared about when I was little was tribbles and that movie with the whales), but he and I got into TNG together in its first run. He passed back in 2008, so he never saw how things got rebooted, but I always think about that bond when watching any Trek
There's a video on RUclips which has the opening set to Archer's Theme. The song goes beautifully with the visuals, with the sound giving the feel of rising hope, and as it fades out at the end it leaves you with a feeling of mystery and expectation that there's more to come.
Watching this in 2024. It's my favorite too. Rewatching the entire series right now. No matter what episode I start with I have to complete the whole series again. Best cast. Best crew.
I imagine once you get to the episode Strange New World you'll agree that Crewman Cutler was 100% flirting with T'Pol. Honestly, I think if her actress hadn't died so suddenly, Cutler/T'Pol would've been one of the B tier ships in the fandom.
Just found your channel because of your Snyder cut review, browsed your uploads, saw this video title, and subbed straight away. Edit: I watched a few reruns of ENT back in the 2000s and it made me wanna watch all of trek.
PS: enterprise is one of my less favorite treks, but mostly cuz Scott Bakula is a dick and he’s from StL which is my hometown and kinda known for being full of weirdly friendly ppl (like, I didn’t realize till I moved that it’s NOT normal to strike up combos with strangers in grocery stores). Also because it was a weird casting choice for that role. They chose a classically trained Shakespearean actor, which is true to the theme of TNG-voyager, but the role was a much more casual “space cowboy” type role like Kirk was. I think they could have had the same cast but made Archer a bit more buttoned up character and it would have worked, but it played out kind of disjointed imo, between Bakula’s acting style and Archers character.
Thanks Jessie! I'm definitely going to give Enterprise another chance now! I'm really needing some more classic style Trek right about now so I'm so happy I have all these new episodes to watch! :)
Jordy Griffin > I like Star Trek enterprise because it's the only show that has a theme song to it. Fun/weird/shocking fact: The iconic music theme 2 the original Star Trek TV series *had actual lyrics*! To my knowledge, the lyrics were never used in any of the aired episodal TV broadcasts (unlike the lyrics 2 the music theme of the 70s/80s reboot of Buck Rogers, which *did* get used during the closing credits of @ least 1 episode) -- & if U ever find a copy of said lyrics , you'll immediately find out why. When I was in high school, I took Music Theory as 1 of the music department's elective classes, & we classmates got access 2 the teacher's personal music library -- which we sometimes browsed thru on the occasions when the teacher was late arriving 2 conduct the day's class. 1 day a classmate (I forget who) was leafing thru a sheet music book of nothing but TV show theme songs ... & suddenly he yelled out, "Hey! There's lyrics to Star Trek!!" The entire class gathered around him 2 look ... & we practically laughed our heads off @ how unbelievably cheesy the lyrics were. What stuck most in my head was the lyric about the "green-skinned beauty" from another planet (it is real, I swear) -- a clear reference 2 the original series pilot featuring Captain Pike. 2 this day, it remains 1 of the most obscure bits of Trek trivia of all time.
During the pandemic, I binged Enterprise and I absolutely love it!! All four seasons for different reasons. And at first I didn't like the theme song but then I started listening to the words and OMG! it is actually the feel of the first two seasons! I love it and truth be told while I usually use the "skip" function while bingeing, I actually listen to the theme every time. I actually love it now.
Enterprise seems better now where you can binge watch all the episodes back to back. Much better than weekly with off season breaks, (and with missed episodes here and there).
Your story with how your dad introduced you to Star Trek and Enterprise is very similar to mine. My dad introduced me to TNG which had been off the air for years by that point, never really cared for DS9 or Voyager either. But when Enterprise came around we were going to make it "our Star Trek" - we watched the first couple episodes together when they came on TV but we both sort of drifted off and stopped. We did something similar for Battlestar Galactica, but that also just disappeared eventually. I got back into ENT myself about season 4 but don't think my dad ever saw it all.
Personally the main issue I had with the show was how big the time travel aspects were, not that it wasn't handled well but it would have been interesting to see more early Starfleet and establishing of the Federation. But I do like the show, gotta love Scott Bakula and of course the [original] theme song too
I love star trek enterprise because it is the beginning of a disturbing epic in space ; it was never easy to be in outer space ,and the theme song shows how brave you have to be for a challenge . My favorite star trek.
DS9 beats it for me but Enterprise is second best imo. I don't want to be that person who points it out but there's a typo in your Title. 'Is' is missing 🖖👍
I’ll watch enterprise eventually, but why didn’t people care for it at the time? 1. It was the first time the Star Trek took a step back. Everything up until enterprise was about advancement of the framework. So at the time when you said prequel to the fandom, it didn’t match with the spirit of the age- in the early 2000s no less, a time which was supposed to be even more future focused than the 1990s. 2. Scott Bakula was a throw-back to a decade earlier. To me it was just really cheesy to see the guy I remembered from early childhood reruns of Quantum Leap in charge of a Star Trek crew. 3. The title sequence was a departure. The visuals, great- a departure, but a welcome one. But the song wasn’t just vocal, it lacked gravitas and pageantry. The instrumentals of the previous 15 years of trek set a mood that you were about to watch something serious. Not in the sense that it wasn’t fun, but in the sense that it was a serious entry into the sci fi genre. All of this combined into a feeling that Trek was moving away from me. Of course, it didn’t help that voyager just wasn’t all that good, and I had stopped watching it pretty early on. Another factor of the era was that at about the same time, the nbc and the sci fi channel were putting out so much new and great sci fi television. For the first time, Star Trek just wasn’t the flagship of televised space opera. I’ll give Enterprise a watch to judge it on its merits, ultimately it’s sin was being a Star Trek that was barely noticed, resulting in its premature cancellation and a trek-less decade.
Oh Jessie, I wish you just gave in and sang the whole song! You know we want to hear it :-). Sorry I'm two years too late but I'm still glad I got to listen and hear some Enterprise appreciation.
Thanks for sharing your story and showing some appreciation for Enterprise Jessie! My dad recently introduced me to Enterprise and its probably my favorite Star Trek show (like you I don’t think it’s the best) so this meant a lot to me. Enterprise just felt like my kind of Star Trek even after watching TNG and many of the newer shows. Even before it “got good” Enterprise’s first two seasons had many good episodes and even planted the seeds for seasons 3 & 4 to expand upon despite some definite low points (which isn’t uncommon for the start of Star Trek shows). The show definitely isn’t perfect but I think it’s better than most give it credit for. Live long and prosper 🖖
Never understood why there was so much shade thrown at Enterprise. With Scott Bacula as captain and a great cast I always thought it was entertaining and interesting for all the reasons you detail. There was so much to explore it's a shame UPN pulled the plug. And as far as the theme song and opening credits....come on man (to quote someone famous), showing humanity stumbling into exploration, implying the huge mistakes made on our own planet (so relevant today) and so desperately trying not to repeat them yet sometimes falling back to the worst we can be. It challenged the viewer; "What would you do to save all of humanity?" for example. The song and melody are hopeful, yet have a melancholy undertone that is ultimately uplifting... come on man!!!! So much better than Voyager's forgettable tinniness (is that a word? Is now) and images that don't even make sense physically (as cool as it is to see Voyager skimming thru the planetary ring there is a whole video on how silly it is). Much love to you Jessie !!!!
Just started watching Enterprise and I gotta say it's reaaaaally cool. Like not bad at all like everyone wants to make it look. Like the character dynamics and the way they showcase that period in the timeline.
While I feel strongly that the intro music of Enterprise is the worst, the show itself is changes around 2 and 3 place in my Star Trek ranking. It is also the one that my opinion of improved the most after a rewatch.
Thats a great song very inspirational by rod Stewart ill pick up were you lefted off.. And I can feel a change in the wind right now. Nothing's in my way. And they're not gonna hold me down no more. No they're not gonna hold me down. Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. And no one's going to bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith, I've got faith, Faith of the heart. It's been a long night, Trying to find my way. Been through the darkness, Now I finally have my day. And I will see my dream come alive at last. I will touch the sky. And they're not gonna hold me down no more. No they're not gonna change my mind. Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. And no one's going to bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith, Faith of the heart. I know the wind's so cold, I've seen the darkest days. But now the winds I feel, Are only winds of change. I've been through the fire, And I've been through the rain, But I'll be fine. Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. And no one's going to bend or break me. I can reach any star. Cause I've got faith, Cause I've got faith, Faith of the heart Faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. And no one's going to bend or break me. I can reach any star. 'Cause I've got faith, 'Cause I've got faith, Faith of the heart... Dam I want to go climb the swiss alps in my star TREK boxers.
I totally understand, I also have a favorite Star Trek series that is often seen as an "ugly duckling" which is Voyager. And like you, a lot of it is nostalgia and personal reasons, I know on a technical level TNG and DS9 are better, and to an extent I can agree that those are more rewatchable than Voyager. But Voyager has a special place in my heart as being the show that was on TV when I was young, the first Star Trek show that introduced me to the ideas and story elements that make up Star Trek. People say Kirk or Picard, but my Captain will always be Janeway.
How, we each come to Star Trek is a very personal thing. For myself, after coming home from school each day, I started watching the 1960's TV series, this was back in the early 1970's when it was in re-runs. Getting to view the future with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, and the rest of the cast was both bright and hopeful. Plus the female Klingon uniforms and the female Federation uniforms each with their short dresses, nylons, and knee high boots were and still are a joy to behold. After the 1960's series, as an African American male, I have the most pride with the series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. However, the series that, I truly enjoy the most is Star Trek Enterprise. It even opened up my eyes to the possibility of planets with two or more human like species. In addition, there might also be planets (like Xindi) where different types of life forms each rule together.
I do want to hear your views on 1x05 where Trip had an alien impregnate him without consent. Then how it was played off as a laugh. It was one of my favorite episodes until I started thinking about it.
In all honesty though - T'Pol's 'three days' comment made me laugh harder than anything up to that point. Also - the alien woman didn't think conception was possible, and the ritual they went under had many broader uses than reproduction. It's a bit ambigious, and feels more like a fairly innocent mistake - plus, she takes full responsibility for the child once she finds out.
@@fitz7231 IKR, I loved T'pol's reaction to that. I think it showed she had feelings for him early on. I only had a problem with it when I started reversing roles. If a human did something with an alien that could lead to reproduction and kept it from the alien, saying it's a "game". I would feel that was wrong. Also, if it happened to Hoshi or T'pol would it still be okay to laugh at the situation? That's why I would love a discussion. Am I reading into things too much or should we look at this episode with a critical eye?
@@LePedant It's hard to say - actually I wonder whether the association of males with sexual assault would colour that reversal, even though the ambiguous events would remain unchanged. It's difficult, but I don't think it hurts to keep thinking about these things.
I agree with you - Star Trek: Enterprise was considered a carrot to the stick of the UPN Network. I loved the characters and smaller scale stories. I am watching them again now. It didn't have the budget or the quality of production, which fit the first time warp drive ship NX-01 Enterprise. The jargon and technology to articulate it didn't exist at the time, with captain's logs listed with Gregorian calendar dates. Archer, T'Pal, Malcolm, Phlox, Hoshi, Mayweather and even Porthos; I could relate to the stories and the situations. The others lost me at one point or another. They never felt as intimate and personal as this often overlooked series in the canon.
Enterprise was the second Star Trek thing I'd ever watched and also my favourite series for a long time (until I watched Ds9). It's still my second favourite tho! Warts and all
I love this series, despite its flaws. I got into this franchise fairly recently, other than watching a few movies I loved years ago, so I don't have much to compare it to, other than knowing I prefer Voyager and that by the time I finish TOS I doubt I'd prefer TOS. I finished it today, and it was a great and surprising experience. I rarely identify with characters. My favorite is Porthos, because he is a dog, but Hoshi is a great linguist I aspire to be like. Reed was a bigger surprise to me. I never expected to identify with a character like him, but like others I saw online, I interpreted him as aromantic. It was even a bit triggery for me once, and I cried (lol I do it a lot, but I had trouble functioning when that happened). I also loved not seeing him as asexual, despite me being ace, because, while this isn't real representation, there are barely any characters like that, even less than aroace characters. I also interpret him as someone who faces internalized arophobia, which is important to me in many levels. I'm sad that I only found a few fanfics in which he is on the aromantic spectrum. I found some adorable fanfics in which he is asexual, although I don't interpret him as asexual on the series (I found a bunch of people who do, and I'm pretty curious why. I'm happy people got to see him as ace, or any identity) and got into some very charming fics in which he is in a romantic relationship with Trip, which I understand and love and I might start reading more and more of these fanfics.
I need to give it a watch. Haven’t seen any of it since it first aired. Also, youtube’s mid-rolls are doing their utmost to kill the emotion your conveying. Maybe have a look at getting rid of them? Your experience really touched me x
I always find it interesting how things repeat themselves down through the years. I grew up in the 80s, so TOS and the first couple of movies were my childhood Treks. TNG didn't start on TV over here till 1990, so I was 13 and deeply into SF of all stripes by that point. But because TOS was only on TV sporadically, and the first two movies generally got shown once or twice a year, it was a big deal when I got to see them. Home video wasn't going to be a big thing for a few more years at that point. So my major touchpoint for Trek was the Book and Tape sets for Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock. These were books of about 30 pages length, with a summary of the movie with appropriate photos, and then the tape had an actor narrating the story, with clips from the movie spliced in and a sound effect to let you know when it was time to turn the page if you were reading along. These were some of my go-to listening on road trips with my family, sitting in the back of the car with a Walkman on. In fact, because of the lag between movies getting into rotation on TV and cinema releases, I knew the plot of Search for Spock from that book and tape, and hadn't even seen the movie before I went to see Voyage Home in the cinema when I was 9. I had a similar experience with the original Transformers movie, where I was 16 before I saw the movie and only knew the story from the book and tape and the Marvel comics adaptation (both of which massively downplayed the carnage in the battle for Autobot City!). I've been able to find some of these on RUclips while I typed this comment out, so I might have to go check them out now. So while I don't share your emotional resonance with Enterprise, I definitely empathise with and appreciate where it comes from.
I try to avoid anything that involves monthly subscription payments but I wonder if there's a way to pay a lump sum or something that I won't forget about being charged. This has me sorely tempted to become a patron.
Jessie, I don't know if you've ever seen the commercials that aired to hype up the Enterprise premiere, but they had a song by The Calling, which was a new band then. I loved the song. ("Wherever You Will Go") I'd seen some info about the upcoming show thanks to Starlog, a great SF&F magazine back in the day. I liked the song so much, I got the CD. Although I thought the ENT theme song was an odd choice, I didn't hate it, I thought it was pretty cool. I do wish they had done more with some parts (and chars) that had great potential, but only got explored a little.
Good point about some of the personal stuff about bullies. Far from all of them, but a fair number came to respect me as we got a little further into high school. It was maybe closer to the Sixties than it now is from then for kids these days chronologically, but such things are possible.
For some reason, I like to imagine the Faith of the Heart lyrics being recited by some guy with a thick Maine accent. "Been a long road, getting from they-ya to hey-ya. Eeyyep... Reckon I got that faith of haht, y'know. Eyyep, gonna go were ma haht takes me maybe."
Star Trek TV is like pizza to me- there is no bad Trek, but I favorite some more than others. I remember years ago when Enterprise came out and it was made quite clear that fan input was not going to be a part of it- no script submissions, etc. They wanted to go in a different direction. I think that was a mistake. When Enterprise came out I had a good couple decades of watching a lot of Star Trek and this one seemed to be missing something. I watched the show faithfully and appreciated the good moments. I also thought that some of the characters had really good chemistry together. Then TV Guide came out with an article titled something like "What's Wrong with Star Trek." This was fifteen years ago, so forgive me if I'm not exact. At the end of the TV Guide article, they asked fans to submit suggestions about what they would like to see happen with the show to make it better. They said they would deliver all the responses to the show for review. Yes, the original show got cancelled, but no other Star Trek afterwards had been cancelled so Enterprise being in trouble was a big deal at the time. The main point I made was that the characters didn't seem passionate about anything. I said it seemed like there was a fist fight every other episode in the original series, because the characters were passionate about things. I have no doubt that got read, because I seem to recall a few months later characters on Enterprise started throwing punches. Also, they brought back in some of the old writers and the old story lines and things were going great. Unfortunately, the show was put on the Friday night 8pm slot which was the kiss of death back then. I think that Enterprise didn't fully get to have a second chance which is really too bad. But it just goes to show how important it is to respect your fan base. It's been a while. Maybe I'll watch it again. Oh, and I also wanted to say that LA does have a lot of good things to offer, so while you are here I hope you get a chance to see them. Live long and prosper.
Gotta admit, when it first aired I was not a fan. To be fair I did try but the 1st season on it's surface was a pretty boring series of "Archer and Trip and maybe Reed get stuck on a crappy space station, or a moon, or a mine.. etc." I didn't look deeper to see what the show offered. So I was one of many who didn't really pay attention or care when it was cancelled early. But several years later when streaming -ahem- *services*... yes, services not websites, hit the webs I went back and re-watched Enterprise from beginning to end and... yeah I think it's great. Enterprise had a lot of things going for it. Great captain, Awesome, gorgeous ship with so much character, great cast of characters (Archer, Trip, Reed, T'POL, Phlox, Hoshi? All great....except for their criminal misuse of Travis Mayweather... but the developed friendship between Archer and T'Pol was fucking phenomenal and a joy to watch and I regret missing out on it when it initially aired.) and honestly the Xindi War/Expanse arc was balls to the wall. It was probably the best Star Trek movie ever made. It was really hitting its stride when it got cancelled and I feel bad about it. Enterprise deserved better. If Voyager can get 7 seasons, clearly Enterprise deserved that many at least. I hope the cast knows how much people loved the show in retrospect. But at least we have it to watch over and over. Here in Canada on a channel called CTV Sci-Fi (formally Space) it shows Star Trek shows every week. Mondays - TOS, Tuesdays - TNG, Wednesdays - VOY, Thursdays - DS9 and Fridays belong to ENT, and I never miss an episode. I've definitely got *FAITH OF THE HEART* by now. I also think Archer is one of my favourite Star Trek Captains in the series. For me it's Sisko, Archer, Picard, Janeway and then Kirk. Sorry Kirk fans, I just didn't grow up watching TOS :P.
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Me watching the first episode of Enterprise: "Ugh, what a terrible theme song."
Me watching the last episode of Enterprise: "... FEIGH UH THE HEEEAAAARRRTTT!"
I guess its been a long time?
Good part of watching on DVD, hit "chapter advance" when it starts. Not a bad song, not a fitting Star Trek" song.
All in favor for a Short Trek featuring Admiral Archer dealing with early Federation problems?
Not sure Short Treks are still a thing.
I love Enterprise and think it would have been amazing if they had been able to spend a season or two on the development of the Federation. Also I wish T'Pol (and Jolene Blalock) had been given fair dues and normal clothes to show how brilliant an actor she is. Love you Jessie, you share such beautiful moments from your personal experience that make us all grow in consciousness and Trekness xx
Yay, Enterprise. ❤🎉
My favorite caracter is com. Shran!!! ❤
Star Trek Enterprise is the series that made me understand why I love Star Trek and what makes it unique compared to every other space opera ever made.
After a thrilling, rousing, and very clearly post 9-11 allegorical season of espionage and action, an exhausted Jon Archer saying "we're explorers, not soldiers" almost brought a tear to my eye.
Enterprise is the most relatable series of the lot; not because it finds Star Trek optimism old fashioned but because it still believed in our capacity to achieve its reality, even if the road to get there is long.
As someone who "recently" got into Star Trek, I must say; the hate around Enterprise seems really out of place. Maybe it was different when it was the only new Star Trek on TV but as someone who could just dip into episodes on Netflix, I have to say that it has a lot of endearing qualities. To be real with you, I found it so endearing that I took a break from watching all of The Next Generation to watch Enterprise start to finish.
Enterprise has a great crew and captain and the secondary characters feel fleshed out in a way that makes me understand why they stick around with the core cast. I feel that the show is able to give greater attention to more of its aliens by virtue of Earth not being aware of so many races.
While watching the other shows, it always feels to me a bit like you already have to know a lot about the franchise as a whole to "really get it" but because everything is a bit more scaled back in Enterprise I feel like both the characters and I are allowed to discover the lore together.
I guess if you are also into the new shows (like i am) you are probably a bit more open to Enterprise (but that is just a theory). If you dont like the show that is fine but i personally think you are missing out
I wrote a full post on it, but the view at the time was that enterprise was a turn around from the things the fan-base wanted to see. Enterprise might be an okay show in retrospect, but it felt at the time to be a mismatch with the spirit of its age- not something fans of tos, tng, ds9, or even voyager, were accustomed to.
@Steve Adams sadly star trek fans from the TNG could not adapt probably and critise the show illogically
This star trek Enterprise is way before Kirk era and most of all relevant to pur time if fans think wider and deeper they should appreciate not hate it or despise it even though I am new to star trek
I Love Vaughn Armstrong by the way as admiral Forrest and CAPTAiN JOHNATHAN ARCHER and COMMANDER SHRAN AND TELLERITE AMBASSADOR AND SOVAL
TO "LEARN WAT THE NATIONS OF EARTH HAVE DONE
TO COME TOGETHER FOR A COMMON CAUSE
BEST IS BROMANCE BETWEEN ARCHER AND SHRAN
T'Pol is my favorite Star Trek character! Carbon Creek is my favorite Star Trek episode! I've loved Enterprise ever since I bought in in 2006. (couldn't watch it as it aired)
T'Pol is everybody favorite caracter! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I like Enterprise a lot. I like that they were not all powerful compared to many ships they met and felt very vulnerable. It made space scary like it should be. The politics is more subtle and complex showing the Vulcans as patronizing frenemies who got their relationship with the Andorians completely messed up.
I also like that it was one of the first Hi Def shows.
Enterprise has grown on me since it first aired.
I'm a big Enterprise fan, i understand why it's disliked.
It's one of those series that is deeply flawed but has some amazing gems of episodes and a very cool premise. Plus I loved the third series....however convoluted it was. I have a similar thing with TNG. It's my favourite for nostalgia reasons mostly but I don't think its the best series.
Like a Terellian fungus? ;^)
@Madalin Grama Agreed
Like a cancerous mole?
One of the great things about Enterprise is that characters learn from their previous exploits. "The show" also remembers and even in the first two series is less episodic than everything except maybe ds9. The naivety, the outclassed ship, the fact even Archer had a broom closet for quarters and, (God love it) The Grappler: All these things allow Enterprise a special place in my heart.
Confession: Enterprise is tied for my favorite alongside Deep Space Nine. These two Star Trek series had main characters that started out not getting along and bond to be the best of friends by the very end. I wish Enterprise had a full 7 season run and a sequel series. The potential the 22nd century had for stories was endless.
Have you read some of the script ideas for season 5? The Romulan war could have been as significant for ENT's final 3 seasons as the Dominion war was to most of DS9's run.
@@jolan_tru There would have to be a lot of time jumping. Apparently the Romulan War lasts 10 years in continuity?
@Hans Hanzo You dare to critizise ENT's song? OK, that's a dislike right there. I love it!
Yikes.
I'm gonna have to admit that I actually really liked the Trip/T'Pol romance. They showed both sides making mistakes, and that they, once they both started to realize they had something deeper than will-they-won't-they might have a more mature, equal relationship.
...then the final episode happened. I perfectly understand why most of the actors have been acerbic (Blalock was outright vicious, well-deservedly so) about it. And why the novels ignored it as "combo of bad historians and faked records". Heck, even one of the Killer Bees admitted it was a bad episode.
I love that one of the novels is literally just two characters in the future figuring out the true story of what happened. It's great!
I didn’t really care all that much for Enterprise until my kids picked it up. It’s their favorite of the Star Trek series as well. They’d all sing the theme song together while I held up a lighter. Of course, right when the show was hitting its stride it got canceled. They had finally found the right formula by doing several small story arcs instead of one large one. Something I wish Discovery would start looking into.
What I love and lot of people dislike is that the crew of the NX-01 didn't know what they were doing in the beginning.
It was the first earth ship capable of going a super long distance in a reasonable amount of time. None of them knew what to expect or how to react. Eventually they learned. With the other Treks you had seasoned crews with tested captains.
Another thing that drew me in was the technology. Star Trek has always had some serious futuristic scifi borderline fantasy stuff going on, which is awesome, but when I watch Enterprise everything feels so familiar and futuristic. The transporter is new and most of the crew is wary of it. They use shuttle pods instead. They don't have tractor beams yet so they have magnets and hooks. They use actual torpedoes. They don't have shields so they have thick hull plating that can be polarized. They push buttons to open the doors. It's just so familiar. The ship itself is just a little less theoretical and more practical to current day. (For scifi anyway)
My only issue with the show is that trying to retcon the way klingons looked in ToS was just silly and not needed. Most people understand that a lot of what we know about the star trek universe came after ToS with the movies and TNG.
There's something about ENT that I always found enjoyable that I couldn't find with Voyager or TNG. I like them, and they're good, but I find myself more drawn to Enterprise than the other two. Doesn't beat DS9 or TOS for me, but it's still up there.
Edit: Although my favorite thing about the ENT fandom, is that all the gays took one look at Reed and went "ours". Rick Berman die mad about it.
I saw Tucker and immediately crushed on him.
"There's something about ENT that I always found enjoyable that I couldn't find with Voyager or TNG." The 'Merikuh bullshit, maybe? Being clearly conservative? Every thing you can't find in DS9 and Voyager that you can find in Enterprise is a bad thing.
Enterprise was my "coming home from school and seeing reruns on the SciFi Channel" show. Although it certainly has its flaws, the idea of seeing a Star Trek show all about, well, the culmination of that "long road... from there to here" was really inspiring (in a way, this is very much like why I so love First Contact). I only watched DS9 recently, and while I really love it now as well, Enterprise was the one that really introduced me to the ST universe.
Right then, back to my rewatch of Enterprise.
First of all, thanks Jessie for being vulnerable and sharing your story with us. You are awesome! And I love your takes on Star Trek.
Now on to my opinions. I really like Enterprise. Yes, I wish that the cast was a little more diverse, and I wish we spent a little less time staring at T'pol in her underwear greased down with decon gel. Overall, though, I think it's really great. I ove how rough it is without all of the magic technology of the rest of Star Trek. Everything feels higher stakes because they have less technology to rely on. They aren't on Picard's Enterprise with its nice carpets and replicators and holodecks. Seeing them work with the grappler and their wimpy torpedoes is awesome. I think the Xindi and the Suliban are great and scary antagonists. I also love the dynamics between humans and Vulcans. I think it is realistic, and really interesting, to see the human resentment against Vulcans and to see Archer work past that. The interactions between Starfleet and MACO people is also interesting.
The characters are well defined and actually develop as people. One of the nice aspects of there being less characters is that the writers had time to develop strong friendships, like that between T'pol and Archer. (Side note, I like how T'Pol becomes more emotionally vulnerable the more time she spends with humans).
Although I prefer more serialized storytelling, ENT does a phenomenal job of linking standalone episodes together. They make lots of little callback references to other episodes in dialogue. And when something happens in a previous episode, it carries through to the next (unlike Voyager where the ship can literally be falling apart at the end of an episode and look like it just came out of space dock the next episode). Like in one episode the ship hits a mine, and in the next episode they have a storyline about fixing the ship.
The think I like the best, though, is this: The humans of TNG, DS9, etc, feel very far away from the humans of today. We hear Picard talking about the "evolved" human race, but it's hard to imagine how humanity got there. The crew of Enterprise are more like us. They are impulsive and a little irresponsible. They make mistakes. But everything they see is completely new to them. We get to feel a sense of wonder as we see the wonder they feel when they first meet new species. Even your typical "alien of the day" episode feels fresh and interesting because it is something incredibly new to the crew. We get to see the crew grow up, get better at their jobs, become more mature, work past biases, and go from adolescent explorers to people who are ready to be leaders of an interstellar Federation of Planets.
And the theme song is great!
Definitely underrated Trek.
Enterprise was also my first Star Trek. I remember being Trek-curious before that, and I think I even gave TOS a shot as a teen. But it just didn't click with me at the time. But then Star Trek Enterprise began airing on tv, and that was amazing. It was unlike anything I had seen at the time in my life. Maybe it was the style that was more familiar and "modern" to my teenage sensibilities, giving me that 'in' with the series. It introduced me to the Star Trek world, and I worked my way backwards after that (Voyager, then DS9, then TNG and finally TOS). So yeah, Enterprise is a good series and deserves some love.
Enterprise is my favorite Trek as well, and I had a similar things with Enterprise. My mom was a huge TNG fan and she had shown me the reruns of TNG on BBC America, but it never truly landed for me. Until I found Enterprise that is. I caught a rerun of Enterprise on the Syfy channel while I was in high school and I was interested in it (I think it was Strange New World from Season 1). It prompted me to find more reruns on Syfy and eventually using Netflix to rent the DVDs for the show. Instead of my mom sharing her Trek with me, I was able to share My Trek, one she had never even heard of, with her (she had originally dismissed DS9 and VOY for not being TNG - she has since gone back post Enterprise and watched both shows, and loved them both). I feel like each Trek series is similar to each of the Doctors from Doctor Who: You never forget your first. While TNG was the first for both of us, Enterprise felt like it *our* first Trek show (not to mention the personal reasons as well), Enterprise will always hold a special spot for me, as it not only got me into Trek as a whole, but it was also my first real "adult" show and showed a path to a better future.
Also I'm mad at RUclips for not recommending this channel to me sooner, as I love everything here
Enterprise really grew on me and is now one of my favorites. I am also a bit of a Jeffrey Combs fanboy and Shran is his best Trek character!
edit: Wanted to add that its really cool of parents getting people into Trek. My parents tried to prevent me from watching and taping it for the longest time!
Jessie: Star Trek: Enterprise came at a really important time in my life. So, yeah.
(Silence)
Me: Is that seriously the end of the story?
I like Enterprise a lot. I liked the "new frontier" aspect and loved most of the characters very much. Archer, I blow hot and cold about. He's a little too shouty and at times Bakula's performance borders on hammy. And poor Meriwether didn't get much to do AT ALL. I didn't like the producers' insistence on making T'Pol into "eye candy" but other than that I feel it rates above Voyager in many ways dramatically, and above TOS consistency-wise. Again, I love the characters. I always do, in Star Trek. It's just, there are soooo many white males on the ship. The producers totally discounted the likelihood that East and South Asia will have the preponderance of the world's population.
I really wish they had featured Commander Shran more! Absolutely loved his burgeoning friendship with Archer.
I'm one of those people with anxiety who finds comfort in watching familiar tv. So I watch at least one episode of Trek every night, and although I do skip around series and episodes, I find Enterprise to be the easiest to watch. I like the familiarity of it being so close to our time, I like that the technobabble is almost decipherable and my favorite thing is NO HOLODECK. I agree that its not the best Trek, but the cast are all endearing, the stories are pretty great (if derivative of the earlier series) and its fun to see the origins of some of the canon too.
I think that last season of enterprise is one of the best seasons in all of trek, so many great multipart episodes that are awesome. I only watched the first season when it was airing, i hated that theme song and thought the time war stuff was dumb. Went back and binge watched it when the trek show came to netflix and I fell in love with the show. Probably my second favorite behind ds9, I even sing along to the theme song now.
I am so glad I found your channel. I remember when Enterprise premiered. I liked it, but it felt a little bland. It wasn't until the Xindi storyline began that it really sparked up for me. Enterprise holds a special place in my heart because Archer and his crew were the first. Pioneers. Really no protocols, definitely no Prime Directive, and making mistakes that future Starfleet generations would learn from. Really no reinforcements, no space stations and their only allies were the Vulcans. Those first 83 crew members, and Porthos, were truly brave.
Good for you mentioning Porthos. 😍😍😍
Honestly I like Enterprise a lot, it's rough in parts sure, but there is a whole heck of a lot of good in there. It's actually my wife's favorite!
I hope this goes well for you, it's nice hearing you talk about how much this show means to you.
Archers enterprise was the first one i watched from start to end. I was like 10 or so and it was the first star trek i gave a chance bc the other stuff seemed "old" to me. My father was a huge fan but he also loved tennis which i hate. His both and only hobbies(hes on the authism spectrum). And as my sister started playing tennis i was kinda forgotten, he just didnt know what to do with me. And through archer i learned to love janeway, sisko and all the other great stuff. And that made me bond to my father more than anything else could. So yea. In a way, enterprise is my personal favorite star trek even through i dont think its the best show.
Man. I work six days a week in a ‘real job’ and still can’t support great people like you. I’m ready for a Trek economy, already. Also, I too think Enterprise is underrated. Definitely better than Picard or Disco... as far as writing.
I went into Enterprise expecting not to like it. I had been taken in by its reputation as 'the bad one', and didn't expect much. But before I knew it, I was taken along for the journey - and I loved it. For me, Enterprise is a prequel made for the right reasons - to explore something new and answer the question; how did the federation first come together? Suddenly we're in a world where there is no prime directive, the starship is fairly flimsy and outmatched at every turn - and its only the stalwart belief in the mission that keeps it together.
Enterprise, like so many star trek series', took a while to get going, but once it did it did some phenomenal stuff - and you have to remember that Enterprise had to deal with a load more interference from Berman - which always makes good Trek harder to make. Still, series three in many ways fulfilled a promise Voyager failed to live up to, and series four added so much to the world of Star Trek, that I'm eternally grateful. I wish to goodness it had been given another three seasons.
Also, Soval and Shran are the best.
Shran is amazing. Hands down my favourite supporting character!
My boyfriend introduced me to star trek through this series and I also really really loved it!
Jessie, you are such a kind empathetic person, it’s such a pleasure to listen to you and hear your “criticism with love” style that doesn’t turn into “both sides equally bad”. You belong among the best of Breadtube.
I normally don't get involved in fandoms, so when I heard that Enterprise was largely hated after watching it I was kind of surprised? I get that it has it's rough edges but not much more than other Trek series, and it has some genuinely great writing! My guess is most of the people wrote it off before the first intro ended for... *ahem* reasons.
It's different than other Trek, but it's literally set before the federation properly exists, of course it's going to be different. In a lot of ways it's about exploring why the federation exists as it does, which is super interesting! I would bet money that if you pitched the over-arching themes and plot to most Trek fans they'd think it sounds like a really good idea.
ENT IS LIFE 😎 ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOR PORTHOS! 🐶
ENT is my favorite Trek show too! Us ENTers gotta stick together!
I always liked Enterprise. I liked the slightly "low tech" feel to it.
That theme song is life. No matter how corny it is I still love it and it makes me feel good
Further more star trek Enterprise can have a movie to make up the loss of season 5 as well to b more in depth with romulans as unseen and unheard of enemy the way they fought as such
I have the Star Trek: Enterprise theme song on my iPhone, and I unironically, unapologetically love it.
Why should you? I love it too!
My favorite to! ❤..... I dont know why people hate it?..... Good caracters development, very interesting episode, Good vilans..... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for your thoughtful takes on Trek, and ST:E in particular. I liked Enterprise for its sense of wonder and adventure. Season 1 showed this often. I also liked that Season 3 was serious and dark. I wish we could have seen more of the consequences that the Xindi War would have had on Archer and the crew. I think that the Xindi, Humanity’s enemy in that story arc, were a Roddenberry ideal: a multi-racial species that (largely) collaborated despite their differences.
Jessie your timing is serendipitous as always. I'm working on finishing Voyager right now and have been thinking about starting Enterprise (only caught a few episodes here and there back when I was a preteen back in the UPN days), and now I'm so excited that I can listen to your podcast along with each episode! Happy to be a Patreon supporter and part of this community you've brought together =)
My grandmother got me into star trek with reruns of the orginal series
I stumbled over TNG in 1987
I caught encounter at farpoint when the enterprise was doing a high warp saucer seperation. I was hooked.
I had to watch all the orginal series movies i was hooked in that world wanting to serve on the enterprise DS9 i was hooked. This show influenced me so much i joined the real Navy. Then served as a corrections officer for 5 years because worf was one of my favorite characters and i wanted tobe tactical able to defend myself so i worked corrections on deathrow Florida, now I am finishing up my bachelor's degree tobe a manager in healthcare administration..
So trek has inspired me on a personal level in my real life so much so jesse I can definitely relate to this show the last of the old trek with philosophy politics, with humanism sprinkled in the trek show.
My wife and I consider Enterprise to be the best of Trek along with DS9. I prefer DS9 she prefers Enterprise because.... well, Shran.
I love shran too and thats why Enterprise is so good,, that wierd early relationship with humans and the logic vulcans and the agressive Andorians. btw.it was the intention that Shran would have been a main part of the cast in season 5.
@@adrianpallis4568 I heard that too. Such a shame we will never see that
Andorians!
Funny how shran looks so much like weyoun.
@@claytonberg721 I wonder why 🤔
Omg this is exciting. Captain Archer is MY captain. I’d kill to see him cameo in discovery in the future
Dammit Jessie convince to watch enterprise and know I have a new addiction
This is so sweet. I’m older than you I guess, but my mum was a PSW and had to go to work Saturday nights, where her client always watched Star Trek, so she would order us pizza and go to work and we would just watch Star Trek TNG because we felt she was watching it at the same time we would, and we just got so into it. Loved your story Jessie!
Got ST: ENT on disc; I always loved it, from the very first episode, because its fresh and tells the story before The Federation, in the very infancy of Starfleet, when there was no prime directive, when transporter beams were met with dread; when Vulcans and Humans were adversarial, which makes the friendship of the Captain and Trip with T'pol all the more compelling. The characters were well written, the plots were good, could have been better, but still enjoyed them. Scott Bakula was a very convincing Captain, that excelled in mentoring, encouraging, inspiring, and a very capable leader, but vulnerable as well.
And BTW, I'm old enough to remember TOS when it originally aired on our teeny B&W tv! _\\//
Enterprise got so good in its last season. I mourn the lost potential of seeing them build further to the Romulan War.
Exactly!... The Romulan war would be maybe better than Xindi story!!!
It‘s so nice to see that in recent years, at last, Enterprise is getting some recognition and love.
I absolutely adore that show. I see its flaws, but every episode leaves me with a big smile on my face. I don‘t get that with any of the newer Star Trek, unfortunately.
I am looking forward to Star Trek Strange New Worlds, however - Anson Mount as Pike is just phenomenal!
Rewatching Enterprise now. I love all the characters so much. Excited for the podcast and can’t wait to listen!
For the longest time, I did not get into Enterprise. Only really got into it recently but only because of Season 3+4. Shame it got cancelled when it finally found it's footing(Took less time then Voyager!). Plus after new trek, I quite appreciated the more 20 episode per season with Season 4 in particular having a great mix of serial and procedural episodes so had the best of both worlds. Just a shame it had a bad ending episode.
Supposedly the final episode was written like the Babylon 5 season four finale, in case it was cancelled they would have a slight bookend to make sure part of the show was cancelled. It could have ended better as the writers linked Elizabeth's fate to the fate of Enterprise, they found out the show was cancelled before finishing Terra Prime so she was killed off. It had a better idea than anything except Voyager, even if the writing didn't become good until the latter half of season two.
Just a shame it had all bad episodes and was clearly written by conservatives and continued in the utterly disgusting trend of objectifying women.
I am a huge fan of Capt Archer. He was a great Captain. I am also really looking forward to Strange New Worlds with Captain Pike.
I’m gonna try watching Enterprise again
My dad grew up with and introduced me to the TOS crew (all I cared about when I was little was tribbles and that movie with the whales), but he and I got into TNG together in its first run. He passed back in 2008, so he never saw how things got rebooted, but I always think about that bond when watching any Trek
There's a video on RUclips which has the opening set to Archer's Theme. The song goes beautifully with the visuals, with the sound giving the feel of rising hope, and as it fades out at the end it leaves you with a feeling of mystery and expectation that there's more to come.
Watching this in 2024. It's my favorite too. Rewatching the entire series right now. No matter what episode I start with I have to complete the whole series again. Best cast. Best crew.
I imagine once you get to the episode Strange New World you'll agree that Crewman Cutler was 100% flirting with T'Pol. Honestly, I think if her actress hadn't died so suddenly, Cutler/T'Pol would've been one of the B tier ships in the fandom.
Just found your channel because of your Snyder cut review, browsed your uploads, saw this video title, and subbed straight away.
Edit: I watched a few reruns of ENT back in the 2000s and it made me wanna watch all of trek.
I always loved this show. I didn't like how it ended though.
Jesse: “Enterprise is the ugly duckling of the Star Trek franchise”
Alex Kurtzman: “Hold my beer”
Babe, how could we NOT support u once we discovered u?? Ur amazing!!
PS: enterprise is one of my less favorite treks, but mostly cuz Scott Bakula is a dick and he’s from StL which is my hometown and kinda known for being full of weirdly friendly ppl (like, I didn’t realize till I moved that it’s NOT normal to strike up combos with strangers in grocery stores). Also because it was a weird casting choice for that role. They chose a classically trained Shakespearean actor, which is true to the theme of TNG-voyager, but the role was a much more casual “space cowboy” type role like Kirk was. I think they could have had the same cast but made Archer a bit more buttoned up character and it would have worked, but it played out kind of disjointed imo, between Bakula’s acting style and Archers character.
Aww! @Jessie_Gender gave me a ❤️! 🥰
I loved Enterprise from the very start and always thought it didn't get the love it deserved. Soooo glad to know you're a fellow ENT enthusiast!
Thanks Jessie! I'm definitely going to give Enterprise another chance now! I'm really needing some more classic style Trek right about now so I'm so happy I have all these new episodes to watch! :)
I like Star Trek enterprise because it’s the only show that has a theme song to it.
Jordy Griffin > I like Star Trek enterprise because it's the only show that has a theme song to it.
Fun/weird/shocking fact:
The iconic music theme 2 the original Star Trek TV series *had actual lyrics*! To my knowledge, the lyrics were never used in any of the aired episodal TV broadcasts (unlike the lyrics 2 the music theme of the 70s/80s reboot of Buck Rogers, which *did* get used during the closing credits of @ least 1 episode) -- & if U ever find a copy of said lyrics , you'll immediately find out why.
When I was in high school, I took Music Theory as 1 of the music department's elective classes, & we classmates got access 2 the teacher's personal music library -- which we sometimes browsed thru on the occasions when the teacher was late arriving 2 conduct the day's class. 1 day a classmate (I forget who) was leafing thru a sheet music book of nothing but TV show theme songs ... & suddenly he yelled out, "Hey! There's lyrics to Star Trek!!"
The entire class gathered around him 2 look ... & we practically laughed our heads off @ how unbelievably cheesy the lyrics were. What stuck most in my head was the lyric about the "green-skinned beauty" from another planet (it is real, I swear) -- a clear reference 2 the original series pilot featuring Captain Pike.
2 this day, it remains 1 of the most obscure bits of Trek trivia of all time.
@@zenkim6709 Lyrics? I would love to hear them! (however cheesy they are)
LLAP! Thanks for standing up for the ideas that will get us from here to there
During the pandemic, I binged Enterprise and I absolutely love it!! All four seasons for different reasons. And at first I didn't like the theme song but then I started listening to the words and OMG! it is actually the feel of the first two seasons! I love it and truth be told while I usually use the "skip" function while bingeing, I actually listen to the theme every time. I actually love it now.
Enterprise seems better now where you can binge watch all the episodes back to back. Much better than weekly with off season breaks, (and with missed episodes here and there).
Your story with how your dad introduced you to Star Trek and Enterprise is very similar to mine. My dad introduced me to TNG which had been off the air for years by that point, never really cared for DS9 or Voyager either. But when Enterprise came around we were going to make it "our Star Trek" - we watched the first couple episodes together when they came on TV but we both sort of drifted off and stopped. We did something similar for Battlestar Galactica, but that also just disappeared eventually. I got back into ENT myself about season 4 but don't think my dad ever saw it all.
Personally the main issue I had with the show was how big the time travel aspects were, not that it wasn't handled well but it would have been interesting to see more early Starfleet and establishing of the Federation. But I do like the show, gotta love Scott Bakula and of course the [original] theme song too
I love star trek enterprise because it is the beginning of a disturbing epic in space ; it was never easy to be in outer space ,and the theme song shows how brave you have to be for a challenge . My favorite star trek.
DS9 beats it for me but Enterprise is second best imo. I don't want to be that person who points it out but there's a typo in your Title. 'Is' is missing 🖖👍
I’ll watch enterprise eventually, but why didn’t people care for it at the time?
1. It was the first time the Star Trek took a step back. Everything up until enterprise was about advancement of the framework. So at the time when you said prequel to the fandom, it didn’t match with the spirit of the age- in the early 2000s no less, a time which was supposed to be even more future focused than the 1990s.
2. Scott Bakula was a throw-back to a decade earlier. To me it was just really cheesy to see the guy I remembered from early childhood reruns of Quantum Leap in charge of a Star Trek crew.
3. The title sequence was a departure. The visuals, great- a departure, but a welcome one. But the song wasn’t just vocal, it lacked gravitas and pageantry. The instrumentals of the previous 15 years of trek set a mood that you were about to watch something serious. Not in the sense that it wasn’t fun, but in the sense that it was a serious entry into the sci fi genre.
All of this combined into a feeling that Trek was moving away from me. Of course, it didn’t help that voyager just wasn’t all that good, and I had stopped watching it pretty early on. Another factor of the era was that at about the same time, the nbc and the sci fi channel were putting out so much new and great sci fi television. For the first time, Star Trek just wasn’t the flagship of televised space opera.
I’ll give Enterprise a watch to judge it on its merits, ultimately it’s sin was being a Star Trek that was barely noticed, resulting in its premature cancellation and a trek-less decade.
I am glad that I am not the only one who liked the theme from Enterprise as well as the show itself!
Enterprise has the besssst uniform, they look so snazzy
Oh Jessie, I wish you just gave in and sang the whole song! You know we want to hear it :-). Sorry I'm two years too late but I'm still glad I got to listen and hear some Enterprise appreciation.
Thanks for sharing your story and showing some appreciation for Enterprise Jessie! My dad recently introduced me to Enterprise and its probably my favorite Star Trek show (like you I don’t think it’s the best) so this meant a lot to me. Enterprise just felt like my kind of Star Trek even after watching TNG and many of the newer shows. Even before it “got good” Enterprise’s first two seasons had many good episodes and even planted the seeds for seasons 3 & 4 to expand upon despite some definite low points (which isn’t uncommon for the start of Star Trek shows).
The show definitely isn’t perfect but I think it’s better than most give it credit for.
Live long and prosper 🖖
This is bravest thing you have ever done and I admire you so much for it!
Never understood why there was so much shade thrown at Enterprise. With Scott Bacula as captain and a great cast I always thought it was entertaining and interesting for all the reasons you detail. There was so much to explore it's a shame UPN pulled the plug. And as far as the theme song and opening credits....come on man (to quote someone famous), showing humanity stumbling into exploration, implying the huge mistakes made on our own planet (so relevant today) and so desperately trying not to repeat them yet sometimes falling back to the worst we can be. It challenged the viewer; "What would you do to save all of humanity?" for example. The song and melody are hopeful, yet have a melancholy undertone that is ultimately uplifting... come on man!!!! So much better than Voyager's forgettable tinniness (is that a word? Is now) and images that don't even make sense physically (as cool as it is to see Voyager skimming thru the planetary ring there is a whole video on how silly it is). Much love to you Jessie !!!!
Just started watching Enterprise and I gotta say it's reaaaaally cool. Like not bad at all like everyone wants to make it look. Like the character dynamics and the way they showcase that period in the timeline.
Great series, my second favourite after the almighty DS9. I loved it from the off.
While I feel strongly that the intro music of Enterprise is the worst, the show itself is changes around 2 and 3 place in my Star Trek ranking. It is also the one that my opinion of improved the most after a rewatch.
Thats a great song very inspirational by rod Stewart ill pick up were you lefted off..
And I can feel a change in the wind right now.
Nothing's in my way.
And they're not gonna hold me down no more.
No they're not gonna hold me down.
Cause I've got faith of the heart.
I'm going where my heart will take me.
I've got faith to believe.
I can do anything.
I've got strength of the soul.
And no one's going to bend or break me.
I can reach any star.
I've got faith,
I've got faith,
Faith of the heart.
It's been a long night,
Trying to find my way.
Been through the darkness,
Now I finally have my day.
And I will see my dream come alive at last.
I will touch the sky.
And they're not gonna hold me down no more.
No they're not gonna change my mind.
Cause I've got faith of the heart.
I'm going where my heart will take me.
I've got faith to believe.
I can do anything.
I've got strength of the soul.
And no one's going to bend or break me.
I can reach any star.
I've got faith,
Faith of the heart.
I know the wind's so cold,
I've seen the darkest days.
But now the winds I feel,
Are only winds of change.
I've been through the fire,
And I've been through the rain,
But I'll be fine.
Cause I've got faith of the heart.
I'm going where my heart will take me.
I've got faith to believe.
I can do anything.
I've got strength of the soul.
And no one's going to bend or break me.
I can reach any star.
Cause I've got faith,
Cause I've got faith,
Faith of the heart
Faith of the heart.
I'm going where my heart will take me.
I've got faith to believe.
And no one's going to bend or break me.
I can reach any star.
'Cause I've got faith,
'Cause I've got faith,
Faith of the heart...
Dam I want to go climb the swiss alps in my star TREK boxers.
Nice EnTerPrise costume u have there
I totally understand, I also have a favorite Star Trek series that is often seen as an "ugly duckling" which is Voyager. And like you, a lot of it is nostalgia and personal reasons, I know on a technical level TNG and DS9 are better, and to an extent I can agree that those are more rewatchable than Voyager. But Voyager has a special place in my heart as being the show that was on TV when I was young, the first Star Trek show that introduced me to the ideas and story elements that make up Star Trek. People say Kirk or Picard, but my Captain will always be Janeway.
How, we each come to Star Trek is a very personal thing. For myself, after coming home from school each day, I started watching the 1960's TV series, this was back in the early 1970's when it was in re-runs. Getting to view the future with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, and the rest of the cast was both bright and hopeful. Plus the female Klingon uniforms and the female Federation uniforms each with their short dresses, nylons, and knee high boots were and still are a joy to behold.
After the 1960's series, as an African American male, I have the most pride with the series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. However, the series that, I truly enjoy the most is Star Trek Enterprise. It even opened up my eyes to the possibility of planets with two or more human like species. In addition, there might also be planets (like Xindi) where different types of life forms each rule together.
I do want to hear your views on 1x05 where Trip had an alien impregnate him without consent. Then how it was played off as a laugh. It was one of my favorite episodes until I started thinking about it.
In all honesty though - T'Pol's 'three days' comment made me laugh harder than anything up to that point. Also - the alien woman didn't think conception was possible, and the ritual they went under had many broader uses than reproduction. It's a bit ambigious, and feels more like a fairly innocent mistake - plus, she takes full responsibility for the child once she finds out.
@@fitz7231 IKR, I loved T'pol's reaction to that. I think it showed she had feelings for him early on.
I only had a problem with it when I started reversing roles. If a human did something with an alien that could lead to reproduction and kept it from the alien, saying it's a "game". I would feel that was wrong.
Also, if it happened to Hoshi or T'pol would it still be okay to laugh at the situation?
That's why I would love a discussion. Am I reading into things too much or should we look at this episode with a critical eye?
@@LePedant It's hard to say - actually I wonder whether the association of males with sexual assault would colour that reversal, even though the ambiguous events would remain unchanged. It's difficult, but I don't think it hurts to keep thinking about these things.
I agree with you - Star Trek: Enterprise was considered a carrot to the stick of the UPN Network. I loved the characters and smaller scale stories. I am watching them again now. It didn't have the budget or the quality of production, which fit the first time warp drive ship NX-01 Enterprise. The jargon and technology to articulate it didn't exist at the time, with captain's logs listed with Gregorian calendar dates. Archer, T'Pal, Malcolm, Phlox, Hoshi, Mayweather and even Porthos; I could relate to the stories and the situations. The others lost me at one point or another. They never felt as intimate and personal as this often overlooked series in the canon.
Second favorite trek show so far
Which series haven't you seen. My favourite series is DS9 then Enterprise.
@@MovieMagic515 Voyager is the only trek show I havent seen yet. I just finished ds9 so I'm taking a trek break
The reason I love Enterprise: Phlox.
Enterprise was the second Star Trek thing I'd ever watched and also my favourite series for a long time (until I watched Ds9). It's still my second favourite tho! Warts and all
Absolutely Fabulous Presentation ❤
I love this series, despite its flaws. I got into this franchise fairly recently, other than watching a few movies I loved years ago, so I don't have much to compare it to, other than knowing I prefer Voyager and that by the time I finish TOS I doubt I'd prefer TOS.
I finished it today, and it was a great and surprising experience. I rarely identify with characters. My favorite is Porthos, because he is a dog, but Hoshi is a great linguist I aspire to be like. Reed was a bigger surprise to me. I never expected to identify with a character like him, but like others I saw online, I interpreted him as aromantic. It was even a bit triggery for me once, and I cried (lol I do it a lot, but I had trouble functioning when that happened). I also loved not seeing him as asexual, despite me being ace, because, while this isn't real representation, there are barely any characters like that, even less than aroace characters.
I also interpret him as someone who faces internalized arophobia, which is important to me in many levels. I'm sad that I only found a few fanfics in which he is on the aromantic spectrum. I found some adorable fanfics in which he is asexual, although I don't interpret him as asexual on the series (I found a bunch of people who do, and I'm pretty curious why. I'm happy people got to see him as ace, or any identity) and got into some very charming fics in which he is in a romantic relationship with Trip, which I understand and love and I might start reading more and more of these fanfics.
You are such a great rolemodel. I'm a mother of 2, and still can't make myself forgive the ppl that bullied me. Thank you 😊
to be frank.. enterprise was my first startrek show. I loved it back then.. it is the one show that took me to all other...
I still love it
I need to give it a watch. Haven’t seen any of it since it first aired. Also, youtube’s mid-rolls are doing their utmost to kill the emotion your conveying. Maybe have a look at getting rid of them? Your experience really touched me x
I always find it interesting how things repeat themselves down through the years. I grew up in the 80s, so TOS and the first couple of movies were my childhood Treks. TNG didn't start on TV over here till 1990, so I was 13 and deeply into SF of all stripes by that point.
But because TOS was only on TV sporadically, and the first two movies generally got shown once or twice a year, it was a big deal when I got to see them. Home video wasn't going to be a big thing for a few more years at that point. So my major touchpoint for Trek was the Book and Tape sets for Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock. These were books of about 30 pages length, with a summary of the movie with appropriate photos, and then the tape had an actor narrating the story, with clips from the movie spliced in and a sound effect to let you know when it was time to turn the page if you were reading along. These were some of my go-to listening on road trips with my family, sitting in the back of the car with a Walkman on. In fact, because of the lag between movies getting into rotation on TV and cinema releases, I knew the plot of Search for Spock from that book and tape, and hadn't even seen the movie before I went to see Voyage Home in the cinema when I was 9. I had a similar experience with the original Transformers movie, where I was 16 before I saw the movie and only knew the story from the book and tape and the Marvel comics adaptation (both of which massively downplayed the carnage in the battle for Autobot City!). I've been able to find some of these on RUclips while I typed this comment out, so I might have to go check them out now.
So while I don't share your emotional resonance with Enterprise, I definitely empathise with and appreciate where it comes from.
I try to avoid anything that involves monthly subscription payments but I wonder if there's a way to pay a lump sum or something that I won't forget about being charged. This has me sorely tempted to become a patron.
Patron apparently just created an option for you to donate a year sum rather then a monthly one
Jessie, I don't know if you've ever seen the commercials that aired to hype up the Enterprise premiere, but they had a song by The Calling, which was a new band then. I loved the song. ("Wherever You Will Go") I'd seen some info about the upcoming show thanks to Starlog, a great SF&F magazine back in the day. I liked the song so much, I got the CD. Although I thought the ENT theme song was an odd choice, I didn't hate it, I thought it was pretty cool. I do wish they had done more with some parts (and chars) that had great potential, but only got explored a little.
Good point about some of the personal stuff about bullies. Far from all of them, but a fair number came to respect me as we got a little further into high school. It was maybe closer to the Sixties than it now is from then for kids these days chronologically, but such things are possible.
For some reason, I like to imagine the Faith of the Heart lyrics being recited by some guy with a thick Maine accent.
"Been a long road, getting from they-ya to hey-ya. Eeyyep... Reckon I got that faith of haht, y'know. Eyyep, gonna go were ma haht takes me maybe."
Star Trek TV is like pizza to me- there is no bad Trek, but I favorite some more than others. I remember years ago when Enterprise came out and it was made quite clear that fan input was not going to be a part of it- no script submissions, etc. They wanted to go in a different direction. I think that was a mistake. When Enterprise came out I had a good couple decades of watching a lot of Star Trek and this one seemed to be missing something. I watched the show faithfully and appreciated the good moments. I also thought that some of the characters had really good chemistry together. Then TV Guide came out with an article titled something like "What's Wrong with Star Trek." This was fifteen years ago, so forgive me if I'm not exact. At the end of the TV Guide article, they asked fans to submit suggestions about what they would like to see happen with the show to make it better. They said they would deliver all the responses to the show for review. Yes, the original show got cancelled, but no other Star Trek afterwards had been cancelled so Enterprise being in trouble was a big deal at the time. The main point I made was that the characters didn't seem passionate about anything. I said it seemed like there was a fist fight every other episode in the original series, because the characters were passionate about things. I have no doubt that got read, because I seem to recall a few months later characters on Enterprise started throwing punches. Also, they brought back in some of the old writers and the old story lines and things were going great. Unfortunately, the show was put on the Friday night 8pm slot which was the kiss of death back then. I think that Enterprise didn't fully get to have a second chance which is really too bad. But it just goes to show how important it is to respect your fan base. It's been a while. Maybe I'll watch it again. Oh, and I also wanted to say that LA does have a lot of good things to offer, so while you are here I hope you get a chance to see them. Live long and prosper.
Do you love pizza and Star Trek?
Do you also love cats and theatre?
If so, will you please be my lifelong friend? 😂😂😂🖖
@@Donnagata1409 These are a few of my favorite things...
Gotta admit, when it first aired I was not a fan. To be fair I did try but the 1st season on it's surface was a pretty boring series of "Archer and Trip and maybe Reed get stuck on a crappy space station, or a moon, or a mine.. etc." I didn't look deeper to see what the show offered. So I was one of many who didn't really pay attention or care when it was cancelled early.
But several years later when streaming -ahem- *services*... yes, services not websites, hit the webs I went back and re-watched Enterprise from beginning to end and... yeah I think it's great. Enterprise had a lot of things going for it. Great captain, Awesome, gorgeous ship with so much character, great cast of characters (Archer, Trip, Reed, T'POL, Phlox, Hoshi? All great....except for their criminal misuse of Travis Mayweather... but the developed friendship between Archer and T'Pol was fucking phenomenal and a joy to watch and I regret missing out on it when it initially aired.) and honestly the Xindi War/Expanse arc was balls to the wall. It was probably the best Star Trek movie ever made. It was really hitting its stride when it got cancelled and I feel bad about it. Enterprise deserved better. If Voyager can get 7 seasons, clearly Enterprise deserved that many at least. I hope the cast knows how much people loved the show in retrospect.
But at least we have it to watch over and over. Here in Canada on a channel called CTV Sci-Fi (formally Space) it shows Star Trek shows every week. Mondays - TOS, Tuesdays - TNG, Wednesdays - VOY, Thursdays - DS9 and Fridays belong to ENT, and I never miss an episode. I've definitely got *FAITH OF THE HEART* by now.
I also think Archer is one of my favourite Star Trek Captains in the series. For me it's Sisko, Archer, Picard, Janeway and then Kirk. Sorry Kirk fans, I just didn't grow up watching TOS :P.