What Went Wrong with Enterprise, Part I

I loved all of the ‘Trek’ series, including Enterprise. But if I had to rank the five Star Trek series, this one would come in fifth. The fact that Enterprise was a prequel to the Star Trek series produced before it doomed it from the beginning of the first episode. Because Enterprise took place before the other ‘trek’ series but was actually filmed after, it precluded the possibility of the crew actually doing or discovering anything interesting, new or momentous, without either raising the question, “If this alien race, that Enterprise just discovered, is so powerful, then is so then how come we never hear from, or even about them in Picard’s time?” or just outright violating the continuity of the Star Trek time line. Therefore, the first two seasons of Enterprise are full of wimpy enemies that are alwayies easily defeated by Archer and his crew over an hour. In the third season of the show the writers made an attempt to overcome the “wimpy aliens” by starting the Xindi arc, completely ignoring the fact that the Xindi are not even so much as mentioned in the series that, in Star Trek chronology, occur after Enterprise. Despite its problems Enterprise showed a marked improvement in the fourth season. The storylines were actually interesting and incorporated themselves into, instead of violating, Star Trek continuity. However, Enterprise can only be involved in so many events that lead to the founding of the federation before the fact, because the crew of NX-01 are (almost) never mentioned in the “later” series. This dashes the credibility of the show. Part II of What Went Wrong with Enterprise in my next post.