Rewatch. First seasons of Star Trek are often not the best. Unfortunately the first season of Enterprise is often really boring. Many of the episodes lack any real plot or drama. It passes the time and it has a couple of interesting characters in Trip and the Doctor. But even Scott Bakula struggles to make Jonathan Archer very interesting. And the whole mass strip off for "debugging" is just gross. Very average. ( )

A spaceship crew explores the galaxy.

There are two or three good episodes. And there are Andorians with animatronic antennae, which is wonderful. Other than that, it's all crap. Most of the cast are bad. There's almost no character writing to speak of (despite entire episodes that exist purely for character development). About half the characters have interchangeable personalities, and it took most of the season just to be able to tell them apart. There's only seven of them, but 26 episodes later, I still don't think I could name them all. Most of the stories are painfully unimaginative, and those that aren't are too incompetently written to work. There was enormous potential with this show. The "right stuff" of the Star Trek universe, as its creators inaccurately describe it, would have been pretty damn cool. This is more like Scripts That Were Rejected By Voyager: The Show.

Concept: B
Story: D
Characters: D
Dialog: D
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: D
Music: D

Enjoyment: D

GPA: 1.5/4 ( )