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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2199386" data-attributes="member: 14159">I'll agree with that.  I think some reasons A Mirror, Darkly was so well recieved by fans was that in many ways it was what people were looking for all along from Enterprise.  The Tholians were there, and while being faithful to the Original Series they also took advantage of better technology to depict them with.  There were tie-ins to the Original Series, (and frankly the TOS Defiant slipping into the Mirror Universe was one I hadn't thought of, but was a nice idea).  In some ways, it had a tone reminiscent of the Original Series.  The Mirror Universe episodes have always been popular with fans because, in moderation they show characters we know in situations we know we'd never see otherwise, and a fun little "what if" of the entire setting.In the fourth season we have no stupid Suliban/TCW or Xindi; the threats and antagonists were races and threats that we knew and expected to encounter in that time, Romulans, Tholians, Klingons, Orions, and the tensions of integrating what would be the founding worlds of the Federation together.  The races that kept recurring were ones we were expecting to see, like Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites.  The plot moved in a direction where you could begin to see how the Federation would be founded, and the huge Romulan Wars which every fan knew lurked a few years on the horizon were beginning to be stirring.  I think with a better time slot and promotion, the 4th season of Enterprise could have been the season to turn it all around, and I think given the test of time it will be well remembered.</blockquote>

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