I’m at episode 19 of season 1 and I really like Archer, because he’s not Picard, he’s not Kirk (not Shatner-Kirk, I prefer Pine-Kirk, the best Kirk ever), he’s just a captain who’s discovering space before the building of the Federation and this is what I like in this show : how was space exploration after the First Contact. How were relationships between humans and Vulcans and how they discovered other alien species.

I just don’t understand there’s so much hostility towards this show (but towards some writers I can understand it, I didn’t like the episode “Acquisition” not because ENT crew met the Ferengis, it’s the Ferengis themselves! I found it boring -except the fact that T’Pol becomes more and more human).

I really loved the nod to ENT with Porthos in ST11, this dog is so cute, maybe a Porthos cameo in ST12?

I’d like to see Archer (some of you may disagree with me), but I think it would be a great hommage to Enterprise that didn’t have the end that it derserved to have (Yeah, I know what’s happening in the finale, it’s quite weird!).

Live Long and prosper, Mr Bakula and Captain Archer!

that’s right, 26, 36, 47 ..

Alan Dean Foster’s novel of “Star Trek” [that's JJ's movie btw] has further reference to the Porthos story – apart from the Scotty dialogue with Spock Prime & Kirk on the ice-planet, there’s extra fun right at the end of the novel once the Enterprise is on its way with Kirk as Captain & Spock as First Officer ..

..transporter comes on and onto the Transporter pad steps ..

Porthos!

so finally, “The Beagle has Landed”

personally I loved this little nod at the Enterprise series.

Oh and *72 Daoud’s comment was great –
“Boy, I hope they don’t beam him down when they visit that planet from “The Enemy Within”!

although there’s a story – Maybe one of the “Captain’s Table stories – “The Legend of Porthos” which is a kind of 007 meets Beagle Spy.

And wasn’t there an Enterprise episode where Archer and Porthos get swapped in the transporter?

Live [very] Long and prosper. – just don’t give him any cheese!

Trek is supposed to be about “Seeking out new life and new civilisations”, not “Seeking out new life and blasting the crap out of them before they can hurt us.”

I don’t mind dark Trek, and there are ways to do it well (ST VI, In the Pale Moonlight), but ENT season 3 just left a bad taste in my mouth.

@87: Is it too late to change my vote to Christopher Walken?
You KNOW you’d watch it.

I’m not sure that the general public would have provided better material than the “professionals”. But maybe seeing some lame ideas coming from OUTSIDE might have made it easier for the writing staff to avoid some of the clunkers they developed in house.

In my mind, anything which happens after the events of FC/”Regeneration” is really subject to a resulting alternate timeline anyway…

I think that once the Borg interfered with the 21st Century (and even left behind some of its drones), all bets were off, even if Picard and company had, for the most part, “corrected” the timeline.

I view the “Temporal Cold War” and the resulting Xindi arc as products of that altered timeline only, and therefore see the entirety of ENT as a version of the 22nd Century which unfolds slightly differently than the one which preceded TOS as we know it. I don’t feel that the “sphere-builders” were a part of that timeline, and their manipulation of the 22nd Century was a failed attempt to alter the past (and by extension, the future) to their own benefit, facilitated in some way by the actions of the Borg in First Contact.

The producers of 24th Century Trek and ENT made clear in interviews that they felt FC had altered the timeline, and although some fans wanted to ignore that (since nothing on screen proved it), I think that the second-season ENT episode “Regeneration” actually suggests that this is likely.

I have never felt as if any of that was “supposed to happen”, and therefore the timeline was vulnerable to changes….just my opinion.

Damien Lewis.