All about "Star Trek: Enterprise"
https://youtu.be/b4pjnAHLtEk?si=82pYcxgxrh5TX88W
And My Comment:
In my opinion, while the first two seasons did have some extremely bad episodes ("desert crossing", "acquisition" and "regeneration" probably being the very worst of them), overall they were pretty good seasons, feraturing some very fine Storylines, and episodes that are simply a Pleasure to watch, such as "A Night in Sickbay", "Shuttlepod One", "Dear Doctor", and "Carbon Creek".
The entire "temporal cold war" idea, however, was, without a doubt, the very WORST idea in the frenchise's entire first four decades. There truly isn't anything that could possibly be said in its favour, and it had only harmed that show pretty severely, by practically enslaving it to an over-raging super-arc that was just extremely bad.
The entire xindi-arc, from the second season's horrible finalé till the first few episodes of the fourth, should and has to be scrapped and thrown a hell away, straight into the trashcan. It was downright anti-Trek, at pretty much the same way in which the despicable jj-herecy and "disastrovery" had been. And so, personally, I just completely ignore it, and never rewatch any of its sad episodes.
The fourth season, then again - after finally releasing itself from all the bad stuff of the third - was, for the most part, a pretty good one, tying neatly some canonical loose ends - the Klingon Forehead question had to be dealt with, and at "Strange New Worlds" they should have adhered to that, and give their Klingons a TOS look (it does not matter, what the real world production's reasons for this were; inworld the Klingon look had dramatically changed by the 2270's, and a reason should thus have been given to it, which "Enterprise" had done very well). Also the other arcs of that seasons worked pretty well, aside from the wholly unnecessary two-part semi-finalé - all that "terra prime" idea should not have been created. The alternate universe' two-parter did provide them a chance to act out of character, all the while properly filling us in on the history of the evil universe. The augments' episodes were real good.
As for the Series' sad finalé - Rick Berman did explain, how they were only ordered three short weeks in advance to pack things up and end it all, no matter how, as "Paramount" no longer wants the show - so, under these awful conditions, they just had to improvise something... and that was the result.
So, all in all - in spite its shortcomings, which inevitably mark it as a far weaker series than TOS, TNG, DS9 and "Voyager", nonetheless "Enterprise" had, for the most part, been a good Series, with some truly excellent stuff. It's just a pity it was not given any better chance.
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