Star Trek: Enterprise
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Our Review
The prequel nobody wanted that quietly became a good show. A century before Kirk: the first Warp-5 starship. Archer (Scott Bakula), T’Pol, Trip, and a crew of space rookie humanity, charts the galaxy before the Federation exists, when humans were the new kids the Vulcans kept on a leash. The first two seasons are the franchise’s most formulaic run, but season 3’s Xindi arc, a season long revenge and-redemption war after a probe kills seven million on Earth, was Trek’s first serialized season, and season 4 (under Manny Coto) is a clear love of the whole franchise: the augments, the Vulcan reformation, the mirror universe two parter, and the founding of-the-Federation arc.
The finale (Terra Prime is the real ending; the Riker holodeck epilogue fans have disowned for twenty years) cut the run short just as it peaked. The In a Mirror, Darkly episodes alone are worth the whole run. NX-01 deserved better.
Verdict: Watch it, start at season 3 if the early run loses you.
