[horatio]

Originally Posted by MrQ1701

I think DS9 showed that it wouldn't work! That's why DS9 was forced to have more episodes off the station. We saw more and more runabout episodes on alien planets or areas of space. The station was too boring. For me, DS9 got really good with the introduction of the Jem'Hadar and then the Defiant.

Yes, always the same environments became stale and seriously limited story-telling possibilities.
Concerning ENT, if people had come up with good scripts, why not a few episodes or half a season before the launch of the NX-01? Not every show would have had to be set on Earth, you could do some history shows à la "First Flight", tell a story set on Vulcan from the Vulcans's perspective (TNG's "First Contact", the episode, and VOY's "Distant Origin2 showed that telling parts of the story from an alien perspective can be interesting), perhaps even a Denobulan story, explore the Human-Vulcan past and relationship a bit more in depth, check out how far humanity has progressed in that last 80 years ("Terra Prime" !), perhaps show some rivalry between Starfleet and the UESPA ... IMO it really depends on whether they would have come up with good scripts.

Originally Posted by DannydeK

The timeperiod they started the federation of planets, and that the humans are responseble for that (mainly Archer) is a little unrealistic though. I mean, come on, some newbies in space without any experience and good technoloy who change everything in the most radical way in a few years?

The slow build-up towards the Romulan War made the future founding members slowly put their differences aside. A common enemy always unites.

[C17]

I will admit I enjoyed Enterprise as well, however the one annoying thing is that after the pilot the whole Plasma Cannons on Enterprise just disappeared?

Where did they go? Were they replaced by the Spatial Torpedoes? And the Enterprise got Phasers a little to quickly. However I will commend them for sticking with the Polarized Hull Plating.

[Captain Sisko]

"Polarize the hull plating!" "Saaay whaaaa?!?!?" -----My reaction when starting out on ENT. Now, its like "polarize the hull plating!" "Awww YEahhhhh!" Sometimes though it sounds like their saying, "polverize the hull plating!!!!!!!" "OHHH NOEZ!"

[Samuel]

I know Enterprise wanted to go lower tech. But it went too low to work well for television audiences... at least in terms of what they expected out of Star Trek.

[DannydeK]

It isn't that lowtech though. But the fact they didn't even know what a forcefield was, was kinda disturbing

[horatio]

They did develop a "static EM barrier" aka forcefield in Vox Sola.