What Went Wrong With Enterprise, Part III

Star Trek’s writing staff must have started to run out of ideas when writing for Enterprise. Many of the plot lines are weak, boring, or recycled. Through the first and second season many of the episodes seemed boring because they all followed the same pattern; the crew of Enterprise makes first contact with an alien race, and then gets into trouble, and then tries to talk their way out of it, before resorting to more drastic measures. In the third season the story lines became more interesting and diverse, but were sadly lacking in allegorical themes. The only theme in any episodes during the third season was “kicking xindi ass.” Also during the middle of the third season the episodes became quite boring. Some plots were blatantly recycled such as Doctors Orders, which was a bad remake of Star Trek Voyager’s One. Season four of enterprise showed improvement. The episodes during that season were much more interesting. During that season Enterprise finally found its stride, just in time to be canceled.