DS9 is outstanding, if you have time to sit and watch episodes consecutively while you still remember what the previous episode was about. Long form content, made even before that was industry standard as it is now. Story arcs that took multiple episodes to finish (Babylon Five is this way too), so a bit closer to a “movie” than a single episode meant to be consumed in one sitting, like TOS, TNG, and VOY. Both formats are good ofc, just different, with each offering something that the other lacks, by design.
ENT I never really understood. Somewhere in there it starts to get into time shenanigans (season 5 maybe?), which I always loved everywhere else I’d seen it in the Star Trek universe. However, I barely could get through it in ENT. Perhaps I was just too busy irl to really give it justice though.
I hope I don’t unfairly prejudice you against enjoying the rest of the show. My aim was to reassure you that you are not alone: the show really does get difficult to watch, by virtue of not being as you expect, coming from the likes of TOS, TNG, and VOY, and then DS9 for longer-form story arcs. Maybe there’s a trick to enjoying ENT? I would hope so, but don’t know it.
Instead I gravitated to other series - Firefly, Farscape, Andromeda, Babylon Five, Battlestar Galactica, there’s so much good to see that is available, and only so much time to spend watching it! On the other hand, Star Trek really is a special franchise… My solution to get through ENT was to do other activities while having it on and so not devoting my full attention to it. Even that got difficult by the end of the series… :-(
Don’t worry about it … I think I already did go through this once which is why I don’t feel so strongly about ENT again this time.
And it’s not a complete loss either … I go on my treadmill every night and watch an episode while walking. 45 minutes is a good length of time for me to go for my walk and it all works out.
And I can see the difference … when I watched DS9 on the treadmill, the walks always felt like nothing and I often wanted to stay on to watch the next episode but I had to hold back. Every walk with ENT feels like I had gone for a walk and I noticed the exercise.
ENT felt like to me that they tried to grab some extra cash by making use of the Star Trek franchise, regardless of the damage they would do to the latter while chasing the former:-P. But perhaps I’m being unfair and simply did not understand the style. Or maybe it’s just art and thus some people will absolutely love it while others hate it. I did not care for it. I really tried to, but it just seemed to drag on forever and leave me unsatisfied, as you are seeing as well.
It gets worse. On the other hand, if there is only four seasons then you’re more than halfway through, so if you keep going then at least you could say that you made it through!?
DS9 is outstanding, if you have time to sit and watch episodes consecutively while you still remember what the previous episode was about. Long form content, made even before that was industry standard as it is now. Story arcs that took multiple episodes to finish (Babylon Five is this way too), so a bit closer to a “movie” than a single episode meant to be consumed in one sitting, like TOS, TNG, and VOY. Both formats are good ofc, just different, with each offering something that the other lacks, by design.
ENT I never really understood. Somewhere in there it starts to get into time shenanigans (season 5 maybe?), which I always loved everywhere else I’d seen it in the Star Trek universe. However, I barely could get through it in ENT. Perhaps I was just too busy irl to really give it justice though.
I hope I don’t unfairly prejudice you against enjoying the rest of the show. My aim was to reassure you that you are not alone: the show really does get difficult to watch, by virtue of not being as you expect, coming from the likes of TOS, TNG, and VOY, and then DS9 for longer-form story arcs. Maybe there’s a trick to enjoying ENT? I would hope so, but don’t know it.
Instead I gravitated to other series - Firefly, Farscape, Andromeda, Babylon Five, Battlestar Galactica, there’s so much good to see that is available, and only so much time to spend watching it! On the other hand, Star Trek really is a special franchise… My solution to get through ENT was to do other activities while having it on and so not devoting my full attention to it. Even that got difficult by the end of the series… :-(
ENT only had 4 seasons. Also, the “Temporal Cold War” stuff started with Season 1, Episode 1.
Don’t worry about it … I think I already did go through this once which is why I don’t feel so strongly about ENT again this time.
And it’s not a complete loss either … I go on my treadmill every night and watch an episode while walking. 45 minutes is a good length of time for me to go for my walk and it all works out.
And I can see the difference … when I watched DS9 on the treadmill, the walks always felt like nothing and I often wanted to stay on to watch the next episode but I had to hold back. Every walk with ENT feels like I had gone for a walk and I noticed the exercise.
ENT felt like to me that they tried to grab some extra cash by making use of the Star Trek franchise, regardless of the damage they would do to the latter while chasing the former:-P. But perhaps I’m being unfair and simply did not understand the style. Or maybe it’s just art and thus some people will absolutely love it while others hate it. I did not care for it. I really tried to, but it just seemed to drag on forever and leave me unsatisfied, as you are seeing as well.
It gets worse. On the other hand, if there is only four seasons then you’re more than halfway through, so if you keep going then at least you could say that you made it through!?