Star Trek: Enterprise. It's been a long road. 

I think I'm one of the people in the minority in that I actually think seasons 1 and 2 were the best.

Indeed. The one thing that killed the show was the last episode...

The most underrated show of all time.

No its not

@@freebird0147 No you are incorrect.

NO Showerscenes any more, hm'kay?

Shran carried the show

Tell Archer thats two he owes me!

Hahaha puny pink skin...

Andorian Mining Consortium runs from noone!

Shran is definitely on the top of the list of reasons to like "Enterprise", because the canonical Andorians were completely devoid of characterization and Jeff Combs was the perfect choice. Consequently, the development hell of the whole show planned to put Shran onto the cast as a regular member, weekly, before being ultimately cancelled. Such a wasted opportunity, but yet, it didn't take anything away from "Enterprise" or any of the episodes where Shran is showcased.

Its definitely a show that people appreciate more now than they did when it aired.

My situation is a bit a-typical. I never really watched it when it first came out as I'd lost interest in Trek by then, but a couple of years ago I decided to sit down and watch every trek episode from TNG thru to Enterprise, start to finish. I was genuinely surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did, and felt it had more of its DNA in past Trek than with the contemporary Trek of today. It certainly wasn't perfect, and it did feel more 'American' in its sensibilities and values (I felt 9/11 could have had something to do with that) but yeah, I was sad to see it end so suddenly, and with such a brutally insulting episode. The cast deserved a better send off than that. ps. there are rumours Scott Bakula may be coming back. pps. Although TNG was the most popular, I think DS9 was the best.

@@MrBendybruce The amazing thing was, I didn't even know Enterprise EXISTED until about 2011 when I saw it on Netflix. This is despite the fact that I was in high school during the time, watched TV constantly, grew up on Star Trek and was always a fan of it. I'm guessing they did a poor job marketing the show and that might be one reason it suffered.

@@TheDeadAlewives I agree, Even the way they experimented with the oddly unsuitable theme song, which felt like it belonged to a different genre of show, and the way they dropped the words Star Trek from the shows name for the first few seasons. They sure didn't do themselves any favors.

@@StamFine I think it's a generational thing - I was born in 76 and didn't get into TNG, DS9 or Voyager until the 2000s when I was already in my mid to late twenties. TNG's first season was shown at 6pm on BBC2 here in the UK opposite the 6 O'Clock news on BBC1, ITV and Channel 4 so it had literally ZERO opposition for teenage me BUT when they killed off Tasha Yar I stopped watching it - It was a good decade and more later when I went back, bought the DVDs and watched the entire show from beginning to end. I hated DS9 from the moment I first saw it in the early 90s and again it was a good decade and more before I went back and watched the entire show to evaluate it properly - I still hate it! Voyager I didn't even bother to watch when it originally came out BUT I caught its first season and a bit on DVD {actually it may have been VHS} in the late 90s and loved it. It was still another few years before I watched the other 5 and 3/4 seasons and I have to say that I hated 7 of 9 from the moment she arrived. Enterprise again I didn't bother to watch when it came out but did catch up after watching all of TNG, Voyager and DS9 - I liked it a lot more than I thought I would but it never came up to Voyager's or TNG's standards and there were significant issues - T'Pol was extremely annoying at first and only got better when they paired her with Trip. The Andorians were great but the Vulcans were annoying, The Orien stories were trash but the Klingon stories were decent, I still don't know what the Hell they were thinking when they brought the Borg and Ferengi into it! Oh and I didn't like ToS either - I watched Dr Who, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Knight Rider, The A-Team and The Dukes of Hazzard as a kid so you'd think Star Trek would have been right up my alley but I never got into it....I still find ToS very variable in quality with a lot of awful episodes. - But what I'm getting at is that despite being seen as a "Kids" show Star Trek wasn't ever really AIMED at "Kids" properly and a whole lot of people like myself didn't really get into each show when they were on TV - VHS and DVDs and now Streaming allows people to watch the shows in a different way, one where a single "bad" episode {Actually the one where Tasha Yar dies is a fantastic episode but I didn't realise that at 12 years old!} doesn't put the watcher off because the next episode is there immediately not a week away. And obviously there's a big difference between what a 12 year old gets from a show and what a 25 year old gets from a show {Even if at 45 years old now I still hate Deep Space Nine!}. The makers of Star Trek are still making the same mistake with STD and Picard....These are not "Kids" shows! They're made for mature audiences BUT unlike the previous shows they don't actually attract those mature audiences either....Mainly because they've added a second grave error in trying to aim these shows at audiences that weren't already into Trek rather than the audience that IS! Star Trek despite its faults was always OPTIMISTIC! STD and Picard and that Godawful Lower Decks are PESSIMISTIC and HATEFUL! They don't like their own audience. Roddenberry didn't much like how the World was when he created Star Trek but he was OPTIMISTIC {blindly you might say} about the Future. The showrunners today aren't optimistic about the Future, Instead they're trying to FIX NOW! They haven't got PATIENCE! They're not thinking LONG-TERM! They ignore the vast cultural changes between 1967 and 2021, they ignore how far we've come and how much better things are today for so many people. They don't want to let the human race proceed at a steady pace and want their version of Utopia TODAY! STD and Picard won't be re-evaluated in 15-20 years time - They'll be forgotten! The move to Streaming has an unintended effect {hopefully unintended because if its intended it's massive short-termism} of destroying the Hardcopy culture. There won't be people re-watching STD and Picard in 20 years time because by then there'll have been a thousand other shows streamed and these two will have been lost in the shuffle and digital downloads will have been erased and written over!

I think it was mostly Season 2 that messed it up. I'd stopped watching at some point in Season 2. But then I randomly checked out Season 3 and it had promise so I jumped back in.

There is the one episode (3.3 Extinction) of Enterprise where half the crew turn into ape-lizards. But it does confirm your theory that such episodes are the worst episode of the entire series.

Same here. Just put the outro music as the intro.

Nope, you're not alone

I loved that episode. The writers of this show were very good at character building and writing stories that took place in single isolated locations (much like the episode where Trip and Malcolm are stranded in the shuttle pod together).

@@TheDeadAlewives shuttle pod one. Excellent episode.

No, & I'm in health profession.

Agreed. Star Trek died as soon as Ent was cancelled.

I'm glad I'm not alone in this

Truth…😉

It’s more the song people dislike, rather than the visuals

The theme song wasnt all that if you look past that .

Gray???

It is WAY better than Voyager. I like all Trek but Voyager is the one I put last.

No ur not.

Suliban, not the Sphere Builders. The Sphere Builders were the ones advising the Xindi.

Not a fan of either Berman or Braga, but each is a creative genius compared to the so-called creatives behind "PIC" and ST:D.

Burn-out. And the fact that even with Enterprise's early setting, its early seasons had plots that could be used on any previous Trek series with little changes. I bailed a few times myself. The first two seasons actually sank the show. The last two were basically made to hit the required number of episodes needed for syndicated reruns. CBS CEO Les Moonves prevented the series from being shopped to any other networks.

Would have made more sense to have the weapon misfire.

Fair enough. I always assumed most people dislike it as a Star Trek Theme rather than as a song.

@@StamFine It was just a crappy song.

So you were the only one... in the entire world!

The outro should have been the intro.

@@bleirdo_dude Anything but that f***king song!! What the hell were they thinking??

Not likely. It was said from insiders (unofficially) that Paramount decided to end the series in late season 2. The other 2 seasons were to get enough episodes to make a syndication package later. Only a ratings miracle would've changed that. Of course "official cancellation" was announced in 2005. The fact CBS head Les Moonves blocked all attempts to save the show (like shopping it to other networks) indicates the rumors were probably true.

They originally wanted to have the first season set on Earth but they weren't allowed to do that. If they had, they could have gone into space in the second season, met the Andorians and built the relationship with Shran which then could have paid off with that arc for season 3.

if there were in jokes, I missed them, but I haven't seen QL in a very long time. There are QL jokes in an episode of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia "The Gang Turns Black," and, well, i don't want to spoil it since its very quanum leapy.

"Detained".