Yesterday afternoon while awaiting the beginning of the Texas-OSU game, I opined on my public Twitter feed that “truly ‘Voyager’ is the worst of the Star Treks.” This provoked some dispute from my Twitter followers. The most popular contrary view was that “Enterprise” is worse... As for “Enterprise,” I dunno. The Temporal Cold War is stupid. But I think the explorations of the origins of the Federation and the Prime Directive are interesting. Not interesting to normal people, of course, but interesting to fans of the franchise.I wholeheartedly disagree. Although I agree with Matt that Voyager was a treacly, poorly acted mess, it actually had a few watchable episodes.
Not so for Enterprise.
Enterprise was quite possibly one of the worst sci-fi shows I've ever forced myself to watch (and I used to watch the Sci Fi Channel on a regular basis!). Scott Bakula was, hands down, the worst starship captain ever to play a lead role in the franchise. Worst of all, the show had what was quite possibly the worst theme music of a TV program in at least 50 years (watch/listen if you dare). The concept of a prequel is of course a laudable one but it lacked anything approaching competent execution. Thank God UPN cancelled it after only four seasons (which was exactly four seasons too long).
