Best Star Trek: Enterprise Antagonists

[Jaywaka]

To be honest, I got bored with it after seeing T'pol in a rather tight top in what must have been a rather cold isolation room at the end of episode 1 haha

 

[Kramodlog]

No Dominion?

 

[Jhaelen]

Given that I don't know half of these, I refrain from voting...

 

[delericho]

The Andorians were particularly well done in that series. Jeffrey Combs must get a lot of credit for his portrayal.

I thought the Xindi arc was an interesting premise, and I'd generally encourage series to at least try something new. Unfortunately, the execution really didn't deliver... much like Enterprise as a whole. A shame.

 

[Ryujin]

The Andorians were particularly well done in that series. Jeffrey Combs must get a lot of credit for his portrayal.

I thought the Xindi arc was an interesting premise, and I'd generally encourage series to at least try something new. Unfortunately, the execution really didn't deliver... much like Enterprise as a whole. A shame.

They would have had more than enough conflict just sticking with TOS races and building the Federation, without pulling in a ton of unknowns.

 

[delericho]

They would have had more than enough conflict just sticking with TOS races and building the Federation, without pulling in a ton of unknowns.

By the point where they introduced the Xindi, they'd been doing that for two years, and it wasn't working for them. So they had to do something to shake up the show.

Of course, it didn't help that they'd hamstrung themselves from the outset, by trying to tell the story of a voyage of discovery to go boldly where the audience had all gone decades before; and by populating the crew with the blandest set of characters thus far shown in Trek.

 

[Ryujin]

By the point where they introduced the Xindi, they'd been doing that for two years, and it wasn't working for them. So they had to do something to shake up the show.

Of course, it didn't help that they'd hamstrung themselves from the outset, by trying to tell the story of a voyage of discovery to go boldly where the audience had all gone decades before; and by populating the crew with the blandest set of characters thus far shown in Trek.

I beg to differ. What they had been doing, as an arc, was the "Temporal Cold War" with the parachuted in race the Suliban. That's what wasn't working for them, in my opinion.

 

[delericho]

I beg to differ. What they had been doing, as an arc, was the "Temporal Cold War" with the parachuted in race the Suliban. That's what wasn't working for them, in my opinion.

Having taken some time to think about this - yes, you're right.

I still don't think there was much conceptually wrong with the Xindi arc (though the execution sucked), but I agree that there wasn't any need for it.

 

[Ryujin]

Having taken some time to think about this - yes, you're right.

I still don't think there was much conceptually wrong with the Xindi arc (though the execution sucked), but I agree that there wasn't any need for it.

There was a wealth of historic references in TOS that were ripe for expanding upon, as was shown by how the Axanar people worked up an entire movie treatment out of a couple of references in the episode "Whom Gods Destroy." There was the Romulan War, in which the Federation and Romulan counterparts never saw each other faces, because FTL radio wasn't then sophisticated enough to send video. The founding of the Federation, which they only started to deal with in the final season, was what I'd been hoping to see all along. So many lost possibilities.

They could have stuck with established canon and had a massive number of plots to examine.