Star Trek: Enterprise Should Have Been Evil The Entire Time - Star Trek: Enterprise - Previously.TV
This would have improved things. "At the end of its fourth season, the Enterprise episode "In A Mirror, Darkly" was set in the evil alternate universe and showed the "evil" version of the crew meeting Klingons for the first time. It was a lot of fun. And three episodes later, the show was over. I propose that instead of ending as a hologram being watched by Riker from The Next Generation (that actually happened!), it could have ended by having the last few episodes cutting back and forth between the "good" and "bad" worlds, showing how each of them dealt with various situations. And then my proposed twist at the end, where we see that the series we've been watching for four years is actually not a prequel to Star Trek: TOS at all. If they had done this, people would still be talking about the legendary series finale of Enterprise, rather than vaguely remembering a sexy lady Vulcan and...maybe a dog?* The producers would have been immune to any complaints about problems in the timeline. And something interesting would finally have happened. Captain Archer was frequently criticized for resorting to violence too much. The various sexy cast members were criticized for being too sexy. At the time, it was generally seen as a symptom of a show that went for easy sex and violence in pursuit of ratings that were never going to happen. It was on the UPN, for god's sake. But I propose that anything that felt insufficiently Star Trek-y could have been justified by having these tendencies get worse over the last season, showing that the show that seemed "good" was really turning bad. They could have had someone experiment with a goatee or sash or something."
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