Now that Enterprise has been cancelled, what would YOU have done...

[wyldwolf]

...differently?

1. A stronger, Kirk-like captain.
2. A ship that didn't look more sophisticated than the NCC1701
3. Season 1 would have been Birth of the Federation.
4. Season 3 would have started the Romulan wars.
5. More tie-ins to TOS.
6. A more majestic opening theme. I liked the visuals, but never the music.

[Enraged_Ape]

1. That's a pretty good list you have there

I might add:

1) Get rid of the Tommy Lee Jones impersonator. Ban all Tommy Lee Jones impersonators from ever appearing on the show.

2) Kill off a cast member, or two. Space travel is, after all, dangerous.

3) Any problem that can only be solved with nonsense technobabble is a problem that is, in itself, nonsense.

4) More focus on the unknown, mysterious, or just plain scary. The transporter should occasionally beam a misshapen lump of flesh in, or a chair with legs where legs just shouldn't be.

5) Anybody resembling Tommy Lee Jones on the set will be immediately escorted off by security.

6) Occasional interaction with life forms that don't look like B-grade TV-actors with rubber knobs on their heads, who also happen to speak perfect English.

7) Less focus on contrived galactopolitics and wars that we--when it comes right down to it--couldn't care less about.

8) Any actor faking a Southern accent will have their BMW towed from the Paramount parking lot at their own expense.

[lazarus]

2. No prequels

Prequels are always a bad idea.

[YankeyMCC]

3. ape hit on some of the points i would make

1. More focus on the dangers of space travel and the challenges faced by early deep space exploration when the technology didn't make it so easy.
- there should've been a lot of scrambling to find raw resources and the work needed to turn them into what they needed.
- probably should've been more deaths or at least more reminders of how thin a line of safety they had.

2. 2nd season would've been a lot of what we're begining to see now with the Humans becoming key in bringing the galactic races together.

3. No or at least extremely difficult translation.
- encounters with alien races could fill entire episodes but still have the humans walk away without already deciphering the entire language and culture.

4. No transporter!

5. Small ship is the right idea but it should've been large mass with small space for the crew.

6. They should've had to choose - bring our killing guns or our tazers. Forcing them to make harder more consequential choices. Take away the ability to change your decision to possibly have to kill someone if you arm youself with the twist of a dial on your weapon, either you took the tazers or you didn't.

7. Stronger character as Captain.

Overall I like Enterprise much better than Voyager and about on par with later seasons of DS9, and I think the prequel premise was a fine idea but they were to timid in exploring that idea. It seemed to me at least.

[Endangered Specie]

4. Made season 4 season 1.

[trogdor]

9. BINGO!!

You win! Why the hell does a Star Trek series require three or four SEASONS to develop characters? How does a Star Trek series GET three or four SEASONS to develop characters? Voyager was like this; early episodes were horrible, but it was quite watchable right about the time Kes and Seven of Nine did their shift change. Enterprise might have pulled this off with a better cast, better direction, better stories, etc.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. wouldn't have made it

[Orsino]

6. I'd have liked...

More intense character studies, as in "A Night in Sickbay."

Better writers, maybe.

Better stories, sometimes.

I think the series was generally on the right track. It was especially good in the Xindi arc, when we saw the crew stretched to (and past) the breaking point, and in this season's three-episode arcs.

The usual planet-of-the-week stories are less interesting, but I've still got to give the cast props for very good acting. Blalock, especially, who was probably hired as eye candy, is convincing.

I like a captain with a bit of Kirk (the stubbornness) in him, a captain with another career behind him (engineering) who was thrust into the unique role of starship commander. I like that he doesn't have to win every fistfight, and that when he's wounded, he doesn't recover immediately. I didn't like his stooping, even briefly, to torture, but his fall felt real--and he's actually since shown regret.

[CBGLuthier]

7. Get rid of Berman

That would have been the only thing needed.

Berman is the kiss of death to the entire franchise.

Oh, and the theme song sucked too but I bet a better producer would have know that.

[NewJeffCT]

8. that theme song really really sucked

After hearing that playing to start the first episode, I never really recovered, even though I liked some of the characters and the idea behind the show. The theme song was just so not Star Trek.