The NX-01 is the most beautiful Enterprise. Fight me.
I love the utilitarian design, it really looks like something we would send out in to deep space for the first time. Quarters that look more like dorm rooms, uniforms that don’t look like pajamas, those buttresses in the corridors, LCD panels. But they also include design elements that look like embryonic versions of elements from TOS. It’s great.
I really liked the idea of ENT. When they changed direction, I really didn’t enjoy it anymore.
I think most people feel the exact opposite about it though.
I’m probably a minority, but I liked it overall. It wasn’t perfect, but none of the other series were either. 🤷♂️
It was nice seeing Starfleet in its early days and how the Vulcans both helped and hindered humanity’s progress after First Contact. The Vulcans, in particular, were interesting because for as logical and enlightened as they claimed to be, they still harbored a lot of bigotry and close-mindedness in their society. Archer calling them out on that was probably one of the highlights of the series. We also got to see Vulcans that fully embraced their emotions as well as some like T’Pol and Ambassador V’Lar who were “emotion-curious”.
I also liked how the tech was closer to what NASA might build in 50 or 60 years and watching tech like the Universal Translator get developed. My only major gripes with ENT were the pandering decontamination scenes and that they started using the transporters more and more as the show went on.
The first couple of seasons were great, it was interesting to see the allmighty federation as an underdog, and captain Archer as a sly trickster trying to one up a technologically superior opponent.
Then they went with the temporal war shenanigans and I quickly lost interest.
ENT has hands down the best intro song of any series.
Can you even remember the words to any of the other intro songs? I didn’t think so.
I’ve got faith of the heart!
That damn song is what turned people away from the show.
