It IS good, trashy fun.

Robot Penis!
Just that.

Count me among the Enterprise defenders. I just got through watching the whole series form start to finish, really enjoyed it! Several good story arcs in the fourth season, and lots of fun for Trek geeks all the way through.

Another posibility: The Cardassians were the Romans and the Bajorans were the Hebrews.

That's actually a 'Warp Core Breach' from Quark's Bar. Six different rums, yeah, I guess it is Kool-Aid Man's evil twin.

Federation Spelling Police - Pull Over!
Thats 'Ressikan' flute.

'Cept it was pronounced 'Vosh'. Is that the episode where Picard spends have the show running around Risa in a too small robe and shorts? That made it all worthwhile IMHO.

I agree with your French friend. Unfortunately for ENT, that meant they only had one season to be good. And, yeah, as much as I enjoyed it from the start, it may have been too geeky for the masses.
"fans had grown up and had other things to do…" Not me, obviously.

I think I meant 'shamelessly'…

I liked the pilot. It was the shamefully recycled "The Naked Now" that drove me off for a season or so before I gave it another chance.

That was T'lar, a different Vulcan High Priestess altogether (same naming convention, though).

My bad for not doing more research. IMDB sez 'royalties' but the original quote just sed 'legalities'…

It's 'April' spelled backwards. Is that significant?

T'pol was going to be T'pau until the makers of Enterprise found out they'd have to pay royalties to Sturgeon for every episode she appeared on. A younger T'pau did show up in the fourth season 'Forge' arc.

Barleycorn, I was going to bring that up, but then I remembered that A) Spock was aging at an accelerated rate, and 2) We don't really know how long Vulcans look like human teenagers. Of course, T'pol was revealed to be in her sixties, looked like an adult, and experienced Pon Farr at least once. This proves two…

PM, you've taken your first step into a larger world.

OK, I was a couple years off. I'm so ashamed…

Tinsel, you answered some of my question while I was writing it. The Xindi arc was too much for a show that was already struggling to develop an audience. More of the two or three part shows like in the fourth season would have been better. DS9 took much longer to build up to that sort of thing.

Spock's Beard, anyone?

Since it's been brought up, I just finished watching Enterprise from start to finish. While it's certainly due its share of criticism, I've never understood, and still don't understand, the hating. More than any other show in the series, it was written not just by geeks, but by Trek geeks. It was really a lot of fun…