Criminally Under-rated 'Star Trek: Enterprise'

I have to admit, when this show was first talked about many years ago I thought "noooo!, why insert a bunch of prequel stuff into an already well established fictional universe!, its going to screw everything up"

My reasoning was that Capt Picard never had a model of the NX-01 Enterprise on the wall, the historical events of this show were obviously never talked about, so why insert it in?

Why not make another show set in the already well established 24th century? I thought.

Then of course, this show was aired and I watched the first one, but made no real effort to watch more. I survived for a long long time on a strict diet of TNG, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, even the crap episodes would still quench my thirst for Star Trek escapism but this series simply never grabbed me. I would tune in, every so often to 'Enterprise' but whenever I heard the opening music I would cringe.

This is of course complete and utter blasphemy toward everything that Star Trek teaches us, namely an 'open-mind' and tolerance of anything different. I had completely fallen back into the trap of regular bias that so many other people are guilty of.

But, in recent years (otherwise known as the great 21st century Star Trek drought) I have re-discovered Star Trek Enterprise and now I own the entire series on DVD and I absolutely love it!

If you are reading this post then you are probably already familiar about the show, if not then look out for one of my next posts titled "Why You Should Watch Star Trek Enterprise"

Cheers

Muzz