"Star Trek: Enterprise": why did it flop?

I actually really liked the series, and have watched it through about four times.

I just remember being SO turned off by the theme song.

R2 That is the one aspect of the show I hate, and the finale.

bad writing for the first 3 years -- It didn't really match the established star trek timeline. The tech was too modern when you think about the original series. It made it feel like that TOS they regressed on tech.

The theme song was the WORST. And the finale was awful. The first three seasons were dull, with only a handful of stand outs. But yeah, season four was great. The T'Pol and Trip relationship was really moving. I was so disappointed it got cancelled right as it was finally working so well. Damn sexy cast. Connor and Scott Bakula. Sexy as hell.

The Diane Warren theme song was awful--unmemorable and preachy simultaneously.

What always stunned me was how uninteresting the central characters were. Archer had nothing about him to make him interesting, and was saved from complete dullness by the fact that he was played by a competent actor. T'Pol was okay, and at least Trip was temperamental, but the other four recurring crew members--Reed, Mayweather, Soto, and Dr. Phlox--were completely bland and were without personalities, and the actors who played them were completely unmemorable.

My favorite out if all of them. It lasted 4 season because station that carried it, UPN, folded.

The mirror universe opening was better.

I've been a Trekkie pretty much all of my life (in my 50s now) and Enterprise was truly the first ST series that I could not get into. Reasons:

The theme song was shit.

I didn't mind the tech. Considering this took place some years before Kirk and company, I thought the tech pretty much fit the time. It made far more sense than that damn Discovery a.k.a. The Michael Burnham Show.

I tried watching several times because I really wanted to give it a chance and like it but it just couldn't grab me.

Aside from that hot Engineer Tripp, I didn't give a damn about any of the character. Oh, and who do they kill off in the series finale? Tripp! They had to know he was the most popular character. That was a shitty thing to do.

I could not STAND the Vulcan first officer who's name escapes me. That outfit. WTF! When did Vulcan females dress like that. That bitch made Voyager's Seven of Nine look decent.

My main dislike - FUCK PREQUELS!

(R8) TRUE! I was just thinking that.

Wish some network would rebroadcast it, (BBC America reruns Next Generation AND Deep Space Nine after all.) I enjoyed it for the first couple of seasons, even with the Xindi and the Temporal Cold War, but I have no recall of the last season except a vague memory of the finals (think it featured Riker and Troi on the holodeck talking about the history of the Enterprise). Loved all of the hot guys on the show. Supposedly it was to feature the first gay main character of any Star Trek franchise but the network demanded any character be dropped.

[quote] Wish some network would rebroadcast it, (BBC America reruns Next Generation AND Deep Space Nine after all.)

I believe they show the original series, TNG, DS9 and Enterprise, or is it some other channel that has that lineup?

I wonder if part of the problem were the egos of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. They had pretty full run of the franchise at that time, and so could do pretty much whatever they wanted. Berman, in particular, pretty much ran the show after gene Roddenberry left (and then died), and it seems from everything I've read like he always really wanted to introduce his own dull alien races than return to the more inte

berman was resting and established ones Roddenberry had established throughout the history of the franchise. When he brought back the Andorians to enterprise, that was a great move, and then by the last season they also brought back the Tellarites and the Orions. But by then the series was over.

Was Berman the producer who was so resistant to introducing a gay character? I remember that originally Roddenberry wanted gay characters on TNG but one of the producers was homophobic.

[quote] Aside from that hot Engineer Tripp

I thought he had a very nice body, but he suffered from premature old-man face. I much preferred Reed.

All the episodes of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT are available currently on Netflix.

Sorry about the fucked up 3rd sentence in my post --it was supposed to read "Berman, in particular, pretty much ran the show after gene Roddenberry left (and then died), and it seems from everything I've read like he always really wanted to introduce his own dull alien races than return to the more interesting and established ones Roddenberry had established throughout the history of the franchise."

R14 Let's not forget Scott Bakula, who is still fucking hot even though he is now 65.

All the Treks are broadcast on Heros and Icons, which is also available on cable and OTA.

It was slow and plodding.

Enterprise did have one outstanding episode, "Cold Creek." It was the one where T'Pol tells the story of her great-grandmother and two other Vulcans crash-landing on Earth in the 1950s and having to pretend to be human and live among humans for many months, until a rescue ship can come and get them. That one really was excellent.

Bakulala's over-acting and self-importance damaged the series. At least now on his NCIS show, he's watered down by a better ensemble, but as executive producer, he keeps himself front and center of boring storylines vaunting his endless supply of sainthood and self-importance to weigh down plots. He must be hell for the writers to deal with?

Why do I keep watching? Sebastian is kind of my ideal.

R20 I do love that episode, especially how they mentioned I Love Lucy, since without it launching Desilu we might never have gotten Star Trek.